Americas category: 34066 books
That Knock at the Door
The History of Gold Star Mothers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A blue star for each family member serving in Americas military a gold star if that life was lost in defense of the nations freedom.
IN WORLD WAR I, the American tradition of the service flag began. Families displayed a simple fabric banner with a blue star for each family member serving in...
by Paulina Alberto, Eddie Chambers, Monica Dominguez Torres
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The African Americas insists on the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro. The collection's framework urges the reader to consider...
Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas
The Politics of Observation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary...
by J H Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Discover the rich history of the major Indian tribes and civilizations of North, Central, and South America in this detailed historical study. Take a journey through time, exploring cultures, ways of life, beliefs, skills and conflicts from the ice age to the 20th century
Killing Abraham Lincoln
Who Turned the Union's Defeat into Victory in the Battle of Five Forks & the Epic of Cincinnatus with Background Notes
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This epideictic oratory is dedicated to,Thespis of Icaria, the inventor of acting, the first actor, playwright, director, and producer in the worlds theater.
My project is a classic drama style of political theater started in Greece thousands of years ago by Thespis of Icaria on the stage for...
by John H. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on...
Negotiated Empires
Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.
Colonial Mediascapes
Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions...
Latin America since Independence
A History with Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
What is Latin America, after all? While histories of the "other" Americas often link disparate histories through revolutionary or tragic narratives, Latin America since Independence begins with the assumption that our efforts to imagine a common past for nearly thirty countries are deeply...
Decolonizing Native Histories
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community...
Antiquarianisms
Contact, Conflict, Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation...
Headlong into Quicksand: the Tale of Today in America
The Oldest Large Democracy Ever, yet a Decaying Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2001
Americas 220 years of Democracy (of its 400 years) is longer than the Greek 100 (of 1000), the Roman 150 (of 1000), or the British 180 (of 1600.) These European democracies are the only large ones ever. Two collapsed as demoralized empires. Two moderns with one heritage of basicly Christian, Northwest...
Rituals of Resistance
African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery. The choice of these two sites mirrors the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which,...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
*Includes Truman's most colorful quotes about the World Wars, politics, the Republican Party, Richard Nixon, and more.*Includes pictures of Truman and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents. "The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers...