Americas category: 34066 books
An American Genocide
The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance,...
Glorious Misadventures
Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Two centuries ago, shortly after the U.S. was formed, a Russian expedition set its sights on the Pacific Northwest. It could have changed history.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century two empires met on the far side of North America. Spain was the tired and hidebound colonial master of much...
by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
The New Scapegoats: Colored-On-Black Racism debunks the widespread and seemingly indelible myth of Africa's blind and facile complicity in the massive uprootment and enslavement of its own in the Americas between the Fifteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates the Transatlantic Slave...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Unlike the USA, the history of Mexico dates back to well within 1900 years or so. Discovery of Mexico was a coincidence. Again, the Spaniards were the first to discover Mexico too. French and the Spanish armies try to invade Mexico and neighboring parts of the north Americas. The Mexican revolution...
Faithful Bodies
Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
In
the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices
played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism
provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between
insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano
Kopelson...
Creating Conversos
The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government...
by Alida C. Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Doa Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern...
by George Reid Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.
Islam, Black Nationalism and Slavery
A Detailed History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
Beginning with the origins of Islam in Arabia and continuing to the African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, Mr. Rashad examines the influence the religion had on the peoples of that continent and the impact of slavery on African Muslims brought to the Americas. He offers several biographical sketches...
The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami
Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Offering new insights into Florida's position within the cultural legacy of the South, The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami explores the long fight for civil rights in one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Chanelle N. Rose examines how the sustained tourism and rapid demographic...
Spain and the Independence of the United States
An Intrinsic Gift
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, provision of supplies, and money, Spain helped the young British colonies succeed in becoming an independent nation. Soldiers were recruited from all over...
The Golden Empire
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought...
by Professor William S. Maltby
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise and readable history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.
Maximilian and Carlota
Europe's Last Empire in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life.From 1861 to...