Americas category: 34066 books
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
The Memory of Fire Trilogy
Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Now in one collection, the century-spanning trilogy filled with “the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America” (The Washington Post).
Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history...
by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
“A book as fascinating as the history it relates . . . Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian.” —Los Angeles Times
For centuries, Europe’s imperial powers brutally exploited the peoples and resources of the New World. While soldiers of fortune marched across continents in search...
The Grandchildren of Solano López
Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904–1936
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Paraguay’s Chaco frontier, one of the least known areas in one of the least known countries in South America, became the unexpected scene of the bloodiest international war in the Americas, the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932–35).A picture postcard from the Chaco War era shows...
The Revolution of 1861
The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor...
by Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
To Make Our World Anew
Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and...
To Make Our World Anew
Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is...
by George H.W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
Empire of Cotton
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism....
by William McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...