Americas category: 34066 books
Where the Land Meets the Sea
Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Huaca Prieta—one the world's best-known, yet least understood, early maritime mound sites—and other Preceramic sites on the north coast of Peru bear witness to the beginnings of civilization in the Americas. Across more than fourteen millennia of human occupation, the coalescence of maritime, agricultural,...
Shrinking the Earth
The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the lands...
Coming to America (Second Edition)
A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days
“Encyclopedic in scope, yet lively and provocative…. One of those rare book that will serve experts and the general public equally well.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Former...
Freedom's Seekers
Essays on Comparative Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
Drawing on decades of research...
by ; Jaime Suchlicki
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
In this concise thousand-year history, one of the worlds foremost scholars on Latin America explains how Mexicos present and future flow directly from its past. Going well beyond a comprehensive description of recent events and crises, Jaime Suchlicki provides an introduction to the countrys early native...
Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century...
Pachakutik
Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Marc Becker traces the growing influence of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE),...
Sea of Storms
A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive...
From Africa to Brazil
Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how...
Haiti and the Uses of America
Post-U.S. Occupation Promises
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries.
In the years...
Frontiers of Citizenship
A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. Just over a century earlier, military campaigns began to extend power across a broad swath of the Andean region, bringing local societies into new relationships with colonists and officials...
Crossroads of Freedom
Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
*Includes Columbus's journal entries of his first voyage to the New World from August-October 1492*Includes maps of Columbus's voyages and pictures depicting Columbus and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. At two o'clock in the morning the land was discovered…As...