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Disease, Resistance, and Lies
The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result...
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825
Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In June 1825 the Cuban countryside witnessed a large African-led slave rebellion -- a revolt that began a cycle of slave uprisings lasting until the mid-1840s. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 examines this movement and its participants for the first time, highlighting the significance of African...
by Rosamaria Segura
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
The second-largest Latino-immigrant group in Los Angeles after Mexicans, Central Americans have become a remarkable presence in city neighborhoods, with colorful festivals, flags adorning cars, community organizations, as well as vibrant ethnic businesses. The people from Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador,...
by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In 1911, a one-track suspension bridge was constructed over the gorge of the Little Colorado River, bypassing a treacherous river crossing and opening travel to northern Arizona. Five years later, Hubert Richardson built a tin-roofed shack on the river's rim and opened his trading post for business....
Measure of a Mountain
Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In The Measure of a Mountain, Seattle writer Bruce Barcott sets out to know Rainier. His method is exploratory, meandering, personal. He begins by encircling it, first by car then on foot. He finds that the mountain is a complex of moss-bearded hemlocks and old-growth firs, high meadows that blossom...
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...
The Traveller's Tree
A Journey Through the Carribean Islands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree,...
by Lynn M. Zook
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Do you love the Classic Las Vegas Strip?
If so, this book is for you- Gambling on a Dream: The Classic Las Vegas Strip 1956-1973 continues the story of that beloved era when Sinatra, Sammy Davis and many other famous entertainers were appearing in intimate showrooms up and down the famed boulevard.
From...
Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Transcribed for the First Time From the Original 1790 Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Antigua and the Antiguans contains a two-volume series about the history and future of this complex island country and its citizens.
by M. Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
“I had always wanted an adventure, but I guess I should have been more specific about what I wanted.”
With these seemingly innocuous words, the tale of the Kelley family begins. Wanting to be beholden to no one's dreams but their own, they left behind their Utah home and set out for Puerto...
Passage to Juneau
A Sea and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and...
Battle of the Bay
Bashing A's, Thrilling Giants, and the Earthquake World Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
1989 was a season of both triumph and tragedy for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics, still marking baseball’s only cross-Bay series. But 1989 is remembered as much for the devastating earthquake that struck moments before Game 3 of the World Series as it is for the exploits of Mark...
Super Team
The Warriors' Quest for the Next NBA Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Super Team is the ultimate celebration of the unprecedented collection of star-power that makes up the Warriors' once-in-a-lifetime roster. Including nearly 100 full-color photographs, fans are provided a glimpse into the personalities that make up this hoops juggernaut—Steph Curry, Kevin Durant,...