Americas category: 34066 books
The Disinformation Age
The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The Disinformation Age, beginning in the present and going back to the American colonial period, constructs an original historical explanation for the current political crisis and the reasons the two major political parties cannot address it effectively. Commentators inside and outside academia have...
Forgotten Continent
A History of the New Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the...
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Who where the first Americans?The story is intriguing, and the fascinating narrative will hold the reader's complete attention.Most of the inhabitants were wiped out by plagues brought by the Europeans.You will learn how "Indians" lived throughout the Americas before 1492 and Columbus,...
by Joseph William Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
A glance at a map of the American continent, inclosing the West Indian seas within its mass, suggests that these basins are sunken plains, submerged to only a moderate extent, but the soundings show depths reaching to more than three miles. "It is not too much to say that every spot which is...
Conquistador Voices (vol II)
The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened?
Columbus discovered America, Cortés conquered the Aztecs, Pizarro the Incas. Soto had something to do with the Mississippi. And Cabeza de Vaca? Well, your teacher never mentioned him.
For most Americans, this is the extent of our knowledge about...
Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.
“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.”...
Conquistador Voices (vol I)
The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened?
Columbus discovered America, Cortés conquered the Aztecs, Pizarro the Incas. Soto had something to do with the Mississippi. And Cabeza de Vaca? Well, your teacher never mentioned him.
For most Americans, this is the extent of our knowledge about...
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs
An Indigenous Nation's Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that’s precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,”...
A Death in Wichita
Abortion Doctor George Tiller and the New American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
With A Death in Wichita (originally published as The Wichita Divide) New York Times** bestselling author Stephen Singular offers an in-depth account of the life and death of a controversial doctor, the debate that sparked his assassination, and the place where two Americas collide
On May 31,...
Several Ways to Die in Mexico City
An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents. Before the decade ended, Hollander moved to the equally rough climes of...
Look Away!
The U.S. South in New World Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States—including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade—are common to most of the Americas, Look Away!...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered,...
by James Garfield
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...
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country...