Americas category: 34066 books
by Buckner F. Melton, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
No group is quotedand misquotedmore often than Americas founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nations speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try to influence the debate by quoting their words. Year in and year out, teachers and political buffs look...
Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800
Volume 2: Portable Personal Possessions
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
This long-awaited follow-up to Deagan’s first volume on ceramics, glassware, and beads focuses on the portable personal objects owned and used by the residents of Spanish colonial America. These objects are not only of Spanish origin; the collection includes many English, French, Dutch, German,...
The Age of Revolutions
The American Revolution & The French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 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...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Includes pictures of Billy the Kid and important people and places in his life.*Includes some of Billy the Kid's most colorful quotes.*Discusses common myths and legends about Billy the Kid, separating fact from fiction.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "I'm...
Franco-America in the Making
The Creole Nation Within
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making...
Return to Kahiki
Native Hawaiians in Oceania
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islanders, reflecting how they viewed not only themselves as a people but their wider connections to Oceania and the globe. Kealani Cook analyzes the relatively little known experiences of Native Hawaiian missionaries,...
Women in Ancient America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America.
Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival...
Translating Nature
Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge—knowledge that was later translated...
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Hidden Out in the Open is the first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This panoramic study covers a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era in the United States, and by similarly momentous...
by Günter H. Lenz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Starting in 2005, Günter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on, contributor to, and participant in the intellectual and institutional changes in his field, Lenz was well...
The Contemporary Caribbean
Life, History and Culture Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
When Americans seek an escape from the worries and dilemmas of everyday life, the crystal blue waters and white sands of the Caribbean islands seem like the answer to a prayer. Yet this image of a tourist’s paradise hides a tumultuous history marked by strife and division over race, political power,...
Slave No More
Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view...
Epic of Being George Washington
And Declaration of America’S Independence over High Taxes, Usurpations of Power, and No Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Purpose of writing this play is to reclaim the dream of the Father of our Nation, President George Washington by adapting his brainy quotes into Greek style epideictic drama. Also, I wish to explore the conflicts and issues in dialectic of exchange and reply in the political responses of King George...
by Lee Kruger
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions...