Americas category: 34066 books

With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800–1850 illuminates the role people of African descent played...

Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities...

Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited. Drawing...

In May 1962, as the struggle for civil rights heated up in the United States and leaders of the Catholic Church prepared to meet for Vatican Council II, Pope John XXIII named the first black saint of the Americas, the Peruvian Martín de Porres (1579–1639), and designated him the patron of racial...

Pax Americana: How and Why US Elites Turned Global Primacy into a Silent Empire turns to the recently written pages of the history of the United States. Looking at them with a fresh perspective to test against the record of critics that claim the country has changed the character of its global involvement,...

*Includes a Bibliography of Salinger's works.*Analyzes The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's literary career.*Includes a Table of Contents."I love to write and I assure you I write regularly…But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. J.D. SalingerA lot of ink...

*Comprehensively covers the lives, careers and legacies of the 5 Presidents.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes Bibliographies for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Among Americas presidents, Harry Trumans presidency produced some of the nations most crucial...

"Bonnye Matthews is America’s preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress Zamimolo’s Story,50,000 BC is book 3 in the popular Winds of Change series. Follow Zamimolo on his quest to rescue Olomaru-mia, the woman...

Includes:•Charles River Editors original history of the Hatfield-McCoy feud •Four contemporary stories about the feud"They were men, who matched the mountains, they were Hatfields and McCoys. They were men, who matched the mountains. They were men, when they were boys." Jimmy Wolford The feud between...

He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three...

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian’s...

*Discusses Little Bighorn in detail and explains the controversies and mysteries still surrounding Custer's Last Stand. *Includes pictures of Custer and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of ContentsSince the Battle of Little...

A book is occasionally misunderstood or misappraised as something it never had any intention of being. This one is not intended to be a statistical immigration treatise, and still less a controversial polemic. Nor has it any pre tension towards being a technical work on sociology, politics, or economics....

*Includes some of Adams's most famous quotes. *Includes pictures of Adams and important people, places, and events in his life. *Analyzes and explains Adams's controversial reputation and legacy.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents."The liberties of our Country,...