Americas category: 34066 books
Modern Panama
From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Few have a complete understanding of the recent history of Panama, markedly since the signing of the Carter–Torrijos Treaties in 1977. Although the Treaty set the stage for the country to finally control all of its territory, little is known about how Panama has fared, both as a manager of a major...
Ambitious Rebels
Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Murder, street brawls, marital squabbles, infidelity, official corruption, public insults, and rebellion are just a few of the social layers Reuben Zahler investigates as he studies the dramatic shifts in Venezuela as it transformed from a Spanish colony to a modern republic. His book Ambitious Rebels...
by Pierre Clitandre
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Cathedral of the August Heat, Pierre Clitandre’s first novel in English and the first novel from Haitian French translated for a new generation, is a modern classic reflecting the kaleidoscope of Haitian life and the struggle of the very poorest people of the Americas that still goes on today.
The...
Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico
Defining Racial Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within...
The Haitian Declaration of Independence
Creation, Context, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
While the Age of Revolution has long been associated with the French and American Revolutions, increasing attention is being paid to the Haitian Revolution as the third great event in the making of the modern world. A product of the only successful slave revolution in history, Haiti’s Declaration...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique case study examines America's involvement in the El Salvador civil war of the 1980s. Through the 1980s, the United States involved itself in a civil war in the smallest country on the mainland of the Americas....
by Sylvia Sellers-García
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous...
Sharing This Walk
An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Sao Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. Karina Biondi's rich ethnography of the PCC is uniquely informed by her insider-outsider status. Prior to his acquittal, Biondi's husband was incarcerated...
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks....
Spaniards in the Colonial Empire
Creoles vs. Peninsulars?
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries.
• Covers three centuries of Spanish colonial power, beginning...
Looking Forward
A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
“The author respectfully submits it as his firm and immovable conviction, that the United States of America, in the years to come, will govern the entire Western Hemisphere.”
These words, written by Arthur Bird in 1899, were his premonition as to the direction of the US one hundred years...
Gendered Crossings
Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
During the War of 1812, or the “second war of independence,” the United States, which consisted of eighteen loosely joined states, took on Great Britain, the greatest naval power in the world, in a conflict that would have a lasting impact on the nation’s future. The causes of the war, which...
The Spanish Craze
America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic...