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This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. What has become known as "the Broad Street pump episode" is one of the most significant early examples of team-oriented investigations into the causes of epidemic disease.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This book captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context.

Recent debates over immigration have given rise to a complex spectrum of opinions, attitudes, and emotions. In fact, these debates have been a hallmark of American history. James Pula provides a selection of primary documents that illuminate immigration as one of the defining features of the American social, cultural, and political landscape.

Thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore the contours of black slavery in the Maritimes.

Sheds light on the complicated period from 1780-81, when Peru was rocked by Tupac Amaru's revolt, to 1826, when independence fighters defeated the last Spanish forces in mainland America. Wim Klooster offers a wide-ranging introduction to the period and explores the arguments and struggles of the rebels and of those who remained loyal to Spain.