Americas category: 34066 books
Confidential Confidential
The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and...
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The earliest rock art�in the Americas as elsewhere�is geometric or abstract. Until�Early Rock Art in the American West,�however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety....
Rainforest Cowboys
The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, land conflict, and widespread deforestation. In the remote state of Acre, Brazil, rubber tappers fought against migrant ranchers to preserve the forest they relied on, and in the process, these "forest guardians" showed the world...
Mapping the Country of Regions
The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young...
Maya Intellectual Renaissance
Identity, Representation, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part because of...
by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune...
Histories of Race and Racism
The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous social movements in these countries have intensified debate about racism and drawn attention to the connections between present-day...
The Middle East and Brazil
Perspectives on the New Global South
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by the rise of Brazil as a champion of the global south, mass mobilizations in the Arab world and South America, and the cultural renaissance of Afro-descendant...
Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000
Waging War and Negotiating Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Violence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the emergence of a powerful paramilitary right. The decade...
Invisible and Voiceless
The Struggle of Mexican Americans for Recognition, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
INVISIBLE & VOICELESS: The Struggle of Mexican Americans for Recognition, Justice, and Equality traces the vicious history of the European conquest of the Americas and examines its pervasive impact on Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants today. Author Martha Caso sheds light on events often...
The Peyote Effect
From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Comprehensively weaves the lives and careers of both candidates into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes both candidates' 2012 platforms*Includes pictures of the candidates and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes an Online Bibliography for further reading.*Includes...
Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building
Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The collapse of the Portuguese empire in the Americas in the early nineteenth century did not immediately or easily translate into the formation of the independent nation-state of Brazil. While “Brazil” had geographic meaning, it did not constitute a cohesive political identity that could draw...
Blacks of the Land
Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made...