Americas category: 34066 books
The Land Has Memory
Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment...
Chimalpahin's Conquest
A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés's conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success....
Paisanos
The Irish and the Liberation of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune, and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the...
Early Brazil
A Documentary Collection to 1700
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous...
The President and the Assassin
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of...
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, cyclone Covey
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490/1492 – Seville, c. 1557/1558/1559/1560) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer...
Resilient Cultures
America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonialization 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book provides a comparative perspective of the impact of early European colonization on the native peoples of the Americas. It covers the character of the indigenous cultures before contact, and then addresses the impact ofand creative ways in which they adapted tothe establishment of colonies...
by Benerson Little
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
In 1674, it is three years since Henry MorganÆs pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented...
USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast
Willie Leonard's Journal, 1859-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast, he...
Texas Warbird Survivors 2003
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
Many examples of aircraft that saw service in the various armed forces of the United States are currently being restored to flying status or preserved in museums in the state of Texas. Some of them have significant war records, and a few are currently standing as gate guardians outside their former...
Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully...
Rebels on the Great Lakes
Confederate Naval Commando Operations Launched from Canada, 1863-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. This is completely untrue. Nevertheless, there was a time during the U.S. Civil War when attacks on America were launched from Canada, but the aggressors were mostly fellow Americans...
by Geoffrey A. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Chronicles of the Revolutionary War organizes the events of the tumultuous birth of the United States into easily read, short chapters.These chapters enliven the story of the American Revolution and capture the spirit of Americas patriot forebears with a balanced account that also respects their British...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
*Includes pictures of important people and places in Crazy Horse's life.*Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of Crazy Horse's name. *Includes a Table of Contents"Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall...