Americas category: 34066 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
*Weaves the lives and piracy of the two famous pirates into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Explains how the myths and legends of the pirates helped create the instantly recognizable pirate stereotypes today. *Includes pictures depicting the pirates and important people, places, and events...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
*Includes pictures of Butch Cassidy and other important people and places in his life.*Explains the origins of the name Butch Cassidy *Discusses the legends and mysteries surrounding Butch Cassidy's life and death, and how his legacy grew. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
There is a hell of excitement in this part of the country. Jesse JamesSpace may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the Wild West, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the...
Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea
Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans,...
Reform, Red Scare, and Ruin
Virginia Durr, Prophet of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Virginia Durr of Alabama was a major reformer whose public career spanned almost fifty years. She fought against the Poll Tax and other restrictions of the franchise that stopped millions of whites and blacks from voting, a development favoring only the Souths aristocracy. She became a leader of the...
Documents of Native American Political Development
1500s to 1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little...
by James Walvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical...
My Shenandoah, 1966
Recollections of a 9-Year Old Along with the Ramblings of a 59-Year Old. a Nostalgic Look Back to the 60’S in a Small Coal Region Town.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
My Shenandoah, 1966 was originally planned to merely record an objective local history, but its enthusiastic fans will assure you the book developed well beyond that into a highly readable, engrossing work for everyone. Its ample supply of endearing personal anecdotes and historical peculiarities...
The Place of Stone
Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people...
by Woodrow Wilson
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 Dwight Eisenhower
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...
Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Warbird Survivors 2003
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
North America is replete in aviation history, both military and civilian. The sheer size of the United States dictated an early interest in air defense and profoundly influenced the nations dependence on air travel. It is no wonder that the United States developed as an air-faring nation. A large...
Feeding the City
From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Has the world economy shaped and defined Brazil’s economic and political history and, if so, to what extent? Is Brazil’s past to be explained principally by its insertion in a single world capitalist system? The authors of the three essays in this volume reflect critically on these questions along...