Americas category: 34066 books
Conquest by Law
How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a Supreme Court decision of monumental importance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the English-speaking world. At the heart of the decision for Johnson v. M'Intosh was a "discovery doctrine" that gave rights of ownership to the...
by Charles Downer Hazen, John Fiske
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. Two...
Longtime Californ'
A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ’ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells of being sold into slavery, brought to America,...
by Lawrence F. Lihosit
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Nominated for 2010 Peace Corps Writers Special Publisher Award
This is a very impressive book. John Coyne, Editor of Peace Corps Writers and Peace Corps Worldwide
A great job! I am astonished at how detailed and thorough this work is. David Searles, author of The Peace Corps Experience:...
Connected Struggles
Catholics, Nationalists, and Transnational Relations between Mexico and Quebec, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices of political dissent in Canada, Catholics in both...
Preserving South Street Seaport
The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Preserving South Street Seaport tells the fascinating story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan. Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century...
An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians
Excursion a los indios ranqueles
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one of very few works in American letters that presents...
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment—including small strips of fertile soils,...
Praying in the Moment
Reflections on the Election of President Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Praying in the Moment: Reflections on the Election of President Barack Obama groups reflections written between the president's election and inauguration, giving voice to Americans who experienced segregation, lynching and discrimination and thought they would never live to see the day that America...
Paisanos
The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The epic story of the forgotten Irish men and women who changed the face of Latin America forever.
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune and the opportunity to...
George Washington at “Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry”
July 4 to August 19, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Gen. George Washington faced a myriad of obstacles in the summer of 1781. In George Washington at Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry, author and historian Mary Sudman Donovan explores this crucial period during the American Revolutionary War by chronicling his activities. In July, he moved a large contingent...
by Bobby Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The "Last Puerto Rican Indian" by Bobby Gonzalez, was published in 2006 and is a collection of poems and short stories about the native Taíno people of the Caribbean, it is an indispensable addition to the literature of the indigenous people of the Caribbean.
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Dark Inheritance
Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges...
Crescent over Another Horizon
Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved...