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Paperback L.A. Book 1
A Casual Anthology: Clothes, Coffee, Crushes, Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Paperback LA is a surprising and witty collection of some of the best writing ever about Los Angeles. More than a dozen major selections include new work and fresh discoveries: a radio broadcast, a ballad, a magazine article, excerpts from prizewinning novels and memoirs. These pieces are punctuated...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
New South Wales (Australia) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...
by E.J. Stephens, Kim Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Founded in 1899, scenic Hollywood Forever Cemetery--the only cemetery located within the city of Hollywood--serves as the "permanent home" for many of Hollywood's most famous (and infamous) characters. Hollywood Forever Cemetery boasts a fascinating history surpassed only by the compelling...
by Mark Masek
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The original Calvary Cemetery was one of the first burial grounds in Los Angeles, opening six years before the city was incorporated. This guide book provides the most complete and comprehensive directory to find the exact burial locations of nearly two dozen stars and celebrities, from the Barrymores;...
by Mauro García Triana, Pedro Eng Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book...
by Danny Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Travel: 12 Rules for America brings the lessons of Danny Kessler into comprehensive book form. This book is written as a guide for Koreans who have decided to travel, study, or live in the United States. You (or your parents) are spending a lot of money to go to America. This experience is an investment...
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War
The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
by Sam Verdeja, Guillermo Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In October 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stated that the spirit of America held tradition as an asylum for the oppressed, and he pledged to “the people of Cuba that those who seek refuge here will find it.” And they did. Even before the president’s speech, thousands of Cubans had been flooding...
Democracy in Latin America
Between Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America:...
Surviving Spanish Conquest
Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Surviving Spanish Conquest reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550.
In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Karen F. Anderson-Córdova...
No Bond but the Law
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination...
William Beckford
First Prime Minister of the London Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy sugar...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across...
by Vivien Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
We travel to grow our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining...