Americas category: 34066 books
Hog and Hominy
Soul Food from Africa to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social and...
by Jesus Martin Barbero, Diana Taylor, Néstor Garcia Canclini
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting...
New World Orders
Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of imperial...
by Alvin Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders.
by Richard T. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Many of America's favorite holidays, including Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Valentines Day, originated far beyond our shores and long before our Founding Fathers were born. Some holidays, including Thanksgiving Day, the Fourth of July, Flag Day, Labor Day, Lincolns Birthday, Martin Luther King,...
by Gerhard Kubik
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and...
Alien Nation
Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others...
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America
A New History for a New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of...
Empires of God
Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of...
History of the Americas and Caribbean
A Concise Outline
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Jack J. Kanski presents concise, illustrated histories covering a range of historical periods and providing readers with key information about events and people that have shaped the history of the world. In the book, Kanski offers readers key information on the history of the countries and military...
Privateers of the Americas
Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, there...
Bantu Contribution in Brazilian Popular Music
Ethnomusicological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Bantu Contribution in Brazilian Popular Music: Ethnomusicological Perspectives is a seminal work that spearheaded the new trend in ethnomusicology, when this discipline shifted the focus of its objective from music in human history to music in culture contact, and from the comparative method of analysis...
Shaping the New World
African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based...
Colonial Phantoms
Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people
Using...