Americas category: 34066 books
Sharks upon the Land
Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai'i, 1778–1855
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Historian Seth Archer traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century....
Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales - Marriage and misgeneration in colonial societies
Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales - Marriage and misgeneration in colonial societies
Amériques, Afrique et Iles de lOcéan Indien (XVI e XX e siècles) - Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVI th XX th centuries)
Language: French
Release Date: January 6, 2015
La conquête de vastes empires coloniaux par les puissances européennes, suivie par des mouvements migratoires d’ampleur variable selon les territoires et les époques, a donné naissance à de nouvelles sociétés. Les principaux groupes humains, indigènes, sous différentes appellations, colons...
Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth
The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, while others saw it as a place of trade, a political experiment, or a potential spiritual sanctuary. But like other European colonizers in the Americas, they...
by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
The global phenomenon of decolonization was born in the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The First Wave of Decolonization is the first volume in any language to describe and analyze the scope and meanings of decolonization during this formative period. It demonstrates...
The Tastemaker
Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era
The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer...
Sin in the Second City
Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named...
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science Monitor
The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants...
Morgan
American Financier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal...
Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and influence...
Hetty
The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable...
Hershey
Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
The name Hershey evokes many things: chocolate bars, the company town in Pennsylvania, one of America's most recognizable brands. But who was the man behind the name? In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Although Samuel Colt died in 1862 at age 47, he had lived a remarkably full life, one filled with enough controversy, calamity, failure and success to fill several novels. And, at the time, he was America's wealthiest inventor. Colt's widow took over the reins of the Colt Armory, memorialized Colt's...
The Sins of the Father
Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of 20 books about the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA comes the detailed account of the life and times of the ambitious, powerful, masterfully manipulative Joseph Patrick Kennedy.
For all his wealth and power, Joe Kennedy was not a happy man. He also...