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by Bartolome de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolome de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.
Bartolome...
by Bill Clinton
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 Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Weaves the lives of the 4 Sons of Liberty together into one entertaining and educational narrative. *Explains the relationships between the men and the roles each one played in the pivotal events before and during the Revolution.*Includes Paul Revere's account of his midnight ride and Longfellow's famous...
by William Henry Harrison
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...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Father of Modern Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. Mike Tyson ...
El Iluminado
A Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
When young Rolando Pérez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What are the documents that Rolando was willing sacrifice himself to protect from his family, the police, and the Catholic Church? And...
Gangster Warlords
Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
"Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read [Gangster Warlords]." --The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives...
Gangsterismo
The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before...
by Bonnye Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
“Bonnye presents a fascinating and fully developed new perspective on the intelligence and social behavior regarding Neanderthals that goes beyond the scope of traditional theories.” – Warren Troy, author of The Last HomesteadThe SealEaters, 20,000 BC is book 5, and the last of the Winds of Change...
ASTORIA (A Western Classic)
True Life Tale of the Dangerous and Daring Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Astoria” tells the story of survival and the difficulties faced by the people who undertook the tremendous Oregon Trail in 1810-1812 encountering harsh environment and hostile native...
And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors
From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history...
Conquest, Tribute and Trade
How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This new edition of Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization (2016) has been revised to improve the clarity of the text, maps and end-notes. The book itself attempts to explain the birth of globalization in a new way and address three interrelated...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create...