History of the Americas

This long overdue biography of the nation's first African American woman judge elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken public figure in the political and professional milieu of New York City before the onset of the modern Civil Rights movement.

This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war.

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The Lawudo Lama presents two life stories along with an extended introduction laying out their social and cultural context.

As World War II drew to a close and radio news was popularized through overseas broadcasting, journalists and dramatists began to build upon the unprecedented success of war reporting on the radio by creating audio documentaries.

It was the Vikings, not Christopher Columbus, who made the first European discovery of America.

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Since 1941 the Medal of Honor has been more often awarded to dead than to living men.

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The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad.

The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horsesmen lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out.

A history and analysis of the 1780 South Carolina battle that marked the turning point for Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War.

Christianity Today Book AwardThe Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable MentionForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistThe success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed.

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Born in Santa Fe in 1802, Donaciano Vigil was an active participant in many of the critical events in New Mexico's history in the nineteenth century.

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).

This work reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "e;Religionero"e; rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastin Lerdo de Tejada.

The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade.

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico.

Nacion Genizara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people.

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers.

The arrival of Spaniards in 1769 served as a defining moment for California's future.

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucania, Chile's southern borderlands region.

The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten.

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States.

In this thoroughly researched work, David M.

After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian.

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The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Dine, and Pueblo languages.

In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people.

One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality.

In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade.

This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses.

When Pueblo Indians say, "e;The first white man our people saw was a black man,"e; they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539.

Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.

Imagine a City That Remembers grew out of a series of articles and photographs published in the Albuquerque Tribune in 1998 and 1999.

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Merida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's top royal official, don Lucas de Glvez.

Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century.

In villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain's New World empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattered.

In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest.

Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas.

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century-the white "e;banana cowboy"e; pushing the edges of a tropical frontier-was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company.

More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States.

Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) is remembered today not only as colonial New Mexico's preeminent religious artist, but also as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West.

This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Diaz's army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution.

Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900, Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in this important new work complementing his previous book, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded Edition.

The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people.