Americas category: 34066 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people and places. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Hopi*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.“Before you take any decision, consider its effect on the next seven generations.” Hopi proverbFrom...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
*Includes pictures of Anasazi art, artifacts, and ruins. *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Anasazi*Explains the relationship between the Anasazi and the Zuni*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.From the “Trail of Tears” to...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. .*Explains the origins of the Gunfight and the controversial details that continue to be debated today.*Includes witness accounts and newspaper accounts of the gunfight. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. “The 26th of October, 1881,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
*Chronicles the major events that brought about the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, and the Battles of Lexington & Concord. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes a Table of Contents. "The Revolution...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
*Includes the full text of the Dred Scott decision and every opinion written by the Supreme Court justices. *Analyzes the Dred Scott decision and its impact on future civil rights cases.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes a Table of Contents. "The question is simply...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
History of Guyana Also include, Guyana art and culture, Guyana government and politics, Guyana tourism and travel guideThe first humans to reach Guyana belonged to the group of peoples that crossed into North America from Asia perhaps as much as 35,000 years ago. These first inhabitants were nomads...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
How much have you found out about Belize, the hidden reality about Belize, the history of Belize, and the entire civilization, the people of Belize, the culture of Belize, business environment in Belize, government and politics, want to know more about this country Belize.Perhaps as early as 35,000...
Why We Left
Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Joanna Brooks’s ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Voices of the American Indian Experience provides unique insights into American Indian history by focusing on Indian accounts instead of on relying on other sources. As a result, their voices are clearer, and readers learn more about Indians directly from Indians, rather than through accounts that...
The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development
Rights, Culture, Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous groups. Her vivid account...
The African Diaspora
Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities...
Haunted by Empire
Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the...
Waves of Decolonization
Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization...
Gods of the Cataclysm
A revolutionary investigation of man and his gods before and after the Great Cataclysm
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Iconic author, poet and anthropologist Hugh Fox was connecting the dots on contacts between the ancient cultures, across the globe, in prehistoric and post-Flood eras long before recent evidence surfaced to support his theories. In GODS OF THE CATACLYSM, Fox weaves a fascinating story, in classic...