Americas category: 34066 books
Divergent Modernities
Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2001
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available...
After Spanish Rule
Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and...
Fatal Revolutions
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. Iannini argues that these transformations...
by Bob Kemper
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
On the gorgeous, late-summer morning of September 11, 2001, a nation was plunged into despair and fear when terrorists struck Americas grandest symbols of economic and military mightthe World Trade Center and the Pentagonand killed nearly 3,000 people. Thrown together by fate under horrific circumstances,...
Working the Diaspora
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Weaves the lives and work of the Adams family into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes several quotes and writings from Samuel, John, John Quincy and Abigail. *Includes pictures of the Adams family and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography for...
by Gord Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
An alternative and unorthodox view of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is offered in this concise history. Eurocentric studies of the conquest of the Americas present colonization as a civilizing force for good, and the native populations as primitive or worse. Colonization is seen...
by Peter Clements
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma.
This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
*Includes Abigail's most famous quotes and several letters written to John Adams.*Includes pictures of Abigail and important people and places in her life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
*Discusses the myths, legends, and controversies surrounding Geronimo's life.*Explains where the name Geronimo originated from.*Analyzes Geronimo's legacy and depictions of him in pop culture.*Includes pictures of Geronimo and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of Contents....
Empire of Neglect
The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling...
The 9Th World
America’S Second Greatest Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
In defense of our nation, Texas born Sergeant Soria has taken on many missions. Training for and fighting in combat has instilled a patriotic toughness and constant situational awareness within him.
However, when he is assigned to the 1996 US Helicopter Team and missioned to compete against...
Amelioration and Empire
Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of...
Another Face of Empire
Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies...