Americas category: 34066 books
Sauerkraut, Suspenders, and the Swiss
A Political History of Green County’S Swiss Colony, 1845–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
From the first Cheese Day in 1874 to the Great Limburger War of 1935, author Duane H. Freitag peers into the nooks and crannies of the tumultuous political history of Green County, Wisconsin.
In this previously untold story, Freitag pulls back the curtain to uncover how the Swiss immigrants...
by Tanya Harmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Truman, FDR, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes Truman's most colorful quotes about politics, the Republican Party, and Richard Nixon*Includes a Table of Contents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be Americas greatest 20th century president, but theres...
Bartolomé de las Casas
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
The Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas (1485–1566) was a prominent chronicler of the early Spanish conquest of the Americas, a noted protector of the American Indians and arguably the most significant figure in the early Spanish Empire after Christopher Columbus. Following an epiphany in 1514,...
by John Quincy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
*Includes Romney's 2012 political platform on health care, the economy, immigration, foreign policy, and social issues.*Includes pictures of Romney and important people in his life.*Includes an Online Bibliography for further reading.*includes a Table of Contents. "We have lost faith in government, not...
We Dream Together
Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates...
by Sherry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history,...
by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades...
The Awakening of Latin America
A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
The name Che Guevara is synonymous with Latin America. This classic anthology on Latin America shows the Argentine-born revolutionary’s cultural depth, rigorous intellect and intense emotional engagement with a continent and its people.
Selected from his family’s personal archives, this...
Jungle of Stone
The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The acclaimed chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya. Includes the history of the major Maya sites, including Palenque, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tuloom, Copan, and more.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Illustrated with a map and more than 100 images.
In...
by Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
by Brian R. Hamnett
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
The second edition of this accessible study of Mexico includes two new features: an examination of cultural developments since Independence from Spain in 1821 and a discussion of contemporary issues up to the time of publication. Several new plates with captions expand the thematic coverage in the...
Seeds of Insurrection
Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient...