Americas category: 34066 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
*Includes pictures of John Quincy Adams and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes quotes from his diary and letters.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Includes several letters written by Abigail Adams, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.*Includes pictures of Adams and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can...
by John Gilligan
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The major proposition of the Soul of America is that America consists in a set of beliefstruthsthat bind us together. Its what makes us Americans. And without that belief, no Constitution, no laws, no whatever, except the point of a sword, can keep us together. Truth has moral implications. But truth...
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
From Chinos to Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent...
Domesticating Empire
Enlightenment in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest,...
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas
The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Frank C. Newby
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corporations; the tragedy of slavery and conquest.This part of the world has never known stability or peace....
Tropical Whites
The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort—white sand, blue waters, and towering palms—become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the...
by Bartolomé de Las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Definitely, this is a disturbing book. Told from the account of a Spanish colonizer who went to Hispaniola to make his fortune, de las Casas soon took up the cause (even petitioning the King of Spain at the time) of not only of the Native peoples on the island of Hispaniola, but of all of the Native...
Cinema and Inter-American Relations
Tracking Transnational Affect
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution...
Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter
Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
With his letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled...
The Formation of Candomblé
Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil...
Weaponizing Maps
Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples’ efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns,...