Americas category: 34066 books
by Jared William Carter (jw)
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Americas schizoaffective writer of short works defines the short events that lead to the American Revolution. Fightingly in time for the fourth of July.
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
*Explains Arnold's achievements for the Americans, his treason, and how he has been remembered. *Includes pictures of Arnold and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline...
by Joseph M. Hentz
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
,Thomas Paines dream was the establishment of a new nation governed by the people for the people. His passion was the total independence of America, and the declaration of it to the world. Paines goal was democracy.
By way of contrast, John Adams scheme was just the opposite. Adams worked to...
Agency of the Enslaved
Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley argues the point that the preconception that out of slavery came...
Revolutionary Emancipation
Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica,...
The Forgotten Peace
Mediation at Niagara Falls
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
In the early hours of April 22, 1914, American President Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to seize the port of Veracruz in an attempt to alter the course of the Mexican Revolution. As a result, the United States seemed on the brink of war with Mexico. An international uproar ensued. The governments of...
by Uzo Marvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
The first humans in the Americas were descendants of northeast Asian nomads who took part in a series of migrations across the Bering Strait perhaps as early as 30,000 B.C. Archaeological evidence testifies to the presence of early hunters and gatherers in Mexico around 10,000 to 8000 B.C. During...
Newfoundland and Labrador
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North America's most distinct and beautiful regions. The site of the first European settlement by Vikings one...
Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries
A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the Southwest as well, known as Arizona/Sonora today, in the eighteenth century as Pimería Alta. This was the area where the Jesuits operated all by themselves,...
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene...
Imperfect Balance
Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a...
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics...
José Martí Reader
Writings on the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
“[Martí] added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new society. Martí transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, Martí pulled together...
by Amber Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016
Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After...