Americas category: 34066 books
by Vincent Peloso
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in the Americas for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a New World population in which a complex array of racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power. During the colonial era, racial and ethnic identities...
Faith, Hope and Charity
Mary Mcleod Bethune
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Kelley captures Mary McLeod Bethunes trials and triumphs from an impoverished childhood in the cotton fields of South Carolina to her ascendancy as Black Americas most influential leader. Bethunes unyielding faith in God propels her forward on a lifelong mission of justice and equality. With a dollar...
The FBI in Latin America
The Ecuador Files
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission,...
by Douglas C. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
When John Clark Married Ann Rogers in 1749 in Virginia, they would eventually produce ten children six sons and four daughters. Like most early American rural couples, John and Ann thought that they were raising farm hands and kitchen help. Little did they dream that their children and two more generations...
by Spencer C. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book treats 30 important civil wars and revolutions across the world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, covering a broad swath of recorded history from ancient times to the present.
• Provides the reader with an informative, accessible account of important...
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the perspective of an indigenous population caught in the heart of the struggle. During the conquest and settlement of Mexico’s Western Sierra Madre, Spain’s indigenous allies constructed an indio fronterizo identity...
Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable
Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material...
The United States and Brazil
A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades.
Monica Hirst considers economic relations between the two countries, presenting pertinent statistical information and detailing key economic policy disputes between the two governments (as well...
The War Against the Pirates
British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors...
Natural Born Seer
Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1805-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Joseph Smith survives today as one of nineteenth-century America’s most controversial religious figures. He claimed visions of angels, dictated a lost record of the ancient inhabitants of the New World, announced new revelations from heaven, and restored what he believed was an ancient yet more...
The American Colonization Society
And the Founding of the First African Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Most historical narratives about Africans in America begin with Jamestown, Virginia, where enslaved Angolans were sold in 1619. However, this book commences with blacks as explorers in the Americas before Christopher Columbus arrival. The point here is to demonstrate that slavery robbed Africa of...
by Matthew Babcock
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region. In response to drought and military pressure,...
Neighborly Adversaries
Readings in U.S.–Latin American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This comprehensive reader traces the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the early nineteenth century to the administration of Barack Obama. Thoroughly revised and updated, the book includes six original essays published exclusively for this edition. A new culture section...
Strategy Six Pack 12
Six History Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
“Hidden talent counts for nothing.”
- Nero.
Strategy Six Pack 12 presents six historical texts spanning two millennia and three continents. Ancient Rome and the Americas get two books each: Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of Rome is paired with Jacob Abbott’s biography of...