San Antonio College Library

Documents American anti-Chinese feeling from the arrival of the first Chinese in the late eighteenth century to 1882, the year in which the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.

Mexico's views of the United States have been characterized as stridently anti-American, but recent policy changes in Mexico culminating with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) mark a fundamental transformation in Mexicos relationship with the U.S. This original book answers questions about the impact of these policy changes on Mexican nationalism and Mexicans perceptions of the U.S. Have popular and elite views of the U.S. changed? Has...

" ... portrays the ill-fated child princess who married France's young and indifferent King Louis XVI. Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue, Marie Antoinette defied both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star, which served only to seal her fate"--Container.

"Syrian born writer Rana Kabbani returns to the Middle East to find out how Muslims have come to view the United States."--BBC webpage.

"Few events in the 1900's mattered so much to so many Americans as did the Spanish Civil War. Histories, memoirs, and tales by Americans who joined or reported the fighting continue to appear; the fascination of the Last Great Cause persists. It is not the purpose of this book to vindicate any one faction - American or European - in the passionate conflict. The wound in the heart attempts, rather, to discover how Americans saw the Spanish Civil War."...

This PBS town hall meeting, moderated by PBS NEWSHOUR co-anchor and managing editor Gwen Ifill, explores events following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri. The program, recorded before an audience on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will include national leaders and prominent thinkers in the areas of law enforcement, race and civil rights, as well as government officials, faith leaders and youth. Distributed by PBS Distribution....

What do the Chinese think of America? Why did Jiang Zemin praise the film Titanic? Why did Mao call FDR's envoy Patrick Hurley "a clown?" Why did the book China Can Say No (meaning "no" to the United States) become a bestseller only a few years after a replica of the Statue of Liberty was erected during protests in Tiananmen Square? Jing Li's fascinating book explores Chinese perceptions of the United States during the twentieth century. As Li notes,...