Americas category: 34066 books
Histories of Infamy
Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
"Roa-de-la-Carrera convincingly shows that Gómara, as well as other historians in the period, cannot easily ignore nor erase the contradictions of the Spanish colonial project."
- Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas
“In an eloquent and thorough exegesis, Roa-de-la-Carrera...
The Return of Hans Staden
A Go-between in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important...
American West Collection
My Life Among the Indians, The Life of John Wesley Hardin and Days on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
American West Collection includes three classic primary texts from the Old West:
My Life Among the Indians by George Catlin. Prolific artist-author-explorer-entrepreneur George Catlin’s incredible one-man tour across the Americas is a record of countless forgotten tribes. This remarkable...
Epics of Empire and Frontier
Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia...
The Price of Fire
Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the “price of fire”—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements helped pave the way to the presidency for indigenous coca-grower Evo Morales in 2005, they have made...
by Kathryn M. Mayers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing examines...
by Jossianna Arroyo
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Addressing the transnational relationships of Freemasonry, politics, and culture in the field of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Writing Secrecy provides insight into Pan-Caribbean, transnational and diasporic formations of these Masonic lodges and their influences on political and cultural discourses in the Americas.
by Michael Gellert
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
The Fate of America examines the national character of the United States against the backdrop of its history, popular culture, and media. Michael Gellert suggests that the deterioration of Americas heroic ideal, the heart of its national character, is responsible for the countrys deepening social ills...
Hispanic New York
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within a "mainstream" and supposedly pure "Anglo" America,...
by Solimar Otero
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once...
Che's Afterlife
The Legacy of an Image
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Here Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of this image, detailing its evolution from a casual snapshot to an omnipresent graphic—plastered on...
Americans All
Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cultural diplomacy—"winning hearts and minds" through positive portrayals of the American way of life—is a key element in U.S. foreign policy, although it often takes a backseat to displays of military might. Americans All provides an in-depth, fine-grained study of a particularly successful instance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
From Kanorado to Pawnee villages, Kansas is a land rich in archaeological sites—nearly 12,000 known—that testify to its prehistoric heritage. This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of Kansas archaeology in nearly fifty years, containing the most current descriptions and interpretations...
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using...