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by Anthony McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
During the period from 1808 to 1826, the Spanish empire was convulsed by wars throughout its dominions in Iberia and the Americas. The conflicts began in Spain, where Napoleon’s invasion triggered a war of national resistance. The collapse of the Spanish monarchy provoked challenges to the colonial...
by Gladys M. Imlach
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
This is a short history of Christopher Columbus and his journeys to the New World. The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial....
Future History
Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely...
Colonial Habits
Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1999
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite,...
by Keith A. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian producers;...
by W. Craig Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen...
Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana
Trade in the French Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Among numerous controls, its administrators oversaw the slave trade, the immigration of free and indentured whites, negotiations with Native American peoples, and...
A Pest in the Land
New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
This study of disease among the native peoples of the New World before and after 1492 challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of postconquest native populations on the introduction...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and...
Blood on the Border
A Memoir of the Contra War
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s...
The Secret History of Gender
Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes of everyday life, he challenges assumptions about gender...
The Tango War
The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" • A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September • One of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2018"
"Masterful...not only filled with engrossing history but includes a cast of characters who could be the...
Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery
Narratives of Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery traces the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through analysis of six texts, Michael Householder demonstrates the role of language in forming...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
*Weaves the lives and presidencies of all 6 Democratic Presidents into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes dozens of pictures of the presidents and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Analyzes the legacies and accomplishments of each president. *Includes a Table of Contents....