Americas category: 34066 books
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization.
This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American...
The Americas in the Spanish World Order
The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish...
by Mark Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
Discover The Largest Empire In The Americas!
Have you always wanted to learn about the great Inca Empire, but your schoolteachers refuse to listen? Are you confused between Inca, Aztec, and Maya? Do you want to learn how the Inca people were unique from their Mesoamerican predecessors? Could...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
*Includes pictures of some of the important people, places, and events involved in the feud. *Explains the origins and legacy of the famous feud.*Includes a timeline of the feud.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "They were men, who matched the mountains, they...
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas
New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus,...
When Montezuma Met Cortes
The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital...
No God But Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism...
Other Septembers, Many Americas
Selected Provocations, 1980-2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup...
Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict...
The Americas
A Hemispheric History
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these connections are generally ignored. In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the first...
World Without End
Spain, Philip II, and the First Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire andbuilding on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from “one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times” (The New York Times...
Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786
Performing America
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Susan Castillo’s pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or ‘multi-voiced’ texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Taking a selection of plays, printed dialogues, travel narratives...
Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work...
by Bonnye Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"Bonnye Matthews is America’s preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress.
Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC is book 2 in the popular Winds of Change series, a prehistoric fiction series on the peopling of the Americas.
Manak-na...