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Dennis Noble highlights the policies, strategy, and tactics used by the U.S. Coast Guard in enforcing immigration laws and puts a human face on both undocumented migrants and those who enforce policy.

This is a textbook to be used for the second part of the US History survey course (US after 1877). Contents: 1) Progressive Era (Part I). 2) The Progressive Era (Part II). 3) The Great War (Part I). 4) Great War (Part II).

This booklet provides an introduction to U.S. monetary policy as it is currently conducted by answering a series of questions: 1) How is the Federal Reserve structured? 2) What are the goals of U.S. monetary policy? 3) What are the tools of U.S. monetary policy? 4) How does monetary policy affect the U.S. economy? 5) How does the Fed decide the appropriate setting for the policy instrument? Also contains comprehensive bibliography and glossary.

Following the end of the Spanish-Cuban-American war in 1898, the U.S. Protestant Church embarked on a religious mission in Cuba that evolved into a zealous secular crusade to reconstruct Cuban society. The church's collision course with Cuba's

This is a condensed version of The Outline of American literature. Newly revised, it traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation. Contents: 1) Early American Writing. 2) Literary Independence. 3) New England Romanticism. 4) The First Great Novelists. 5) The Rise of Realism. 6) Modernism and Experimentation. 7) The Flowering of the Individual.

"Shows that the strategic logic of U.S.-Cuba security cooperation remains so persuasive that it has even been intermittently embraced by such avowed antagonists as Fidel Castro and George W. Bush."--Daniel P. Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue