Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded.
Leading scholar Alex Dupuy investigates themes of class, power, and gender in Haiti in the capitalist world-economy-from independence and indemnity to the US occupation and current crisis after the assassination of President Moise.
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Pedro Felipe Ramírez es un testigo invaluable de los procesos políticos y sociales de Chile en los últimos cincuenta años y esa prerrogativa de excepción le otorga a este libro un significado de documento histórico para la mejor comprensión de nuestro pasado.
Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights.
William Paterson is best known to history as the spokesman of "e;the New Jersey plan"e; in the Federal Convention, intended to preserve the rights of the smaller States against their larger sisters.
Jacques Pierre Brissot, who assumed the name of de Warville, a celebrated French Girondist, was born at Chartres, where his father was an inn-keeper, in January 1754.
La relación entre imagen y memoria con base en la novela Terra nostra (1975) de Carlos Fuentes abre distintas posibilidades de reflexión y debate que contribuyen a pensar América Latina desde nuevas lecturas.
Este libro es resultado de un proyecto de investigación que se inscribe en un macroproyecto que tiene como propósito pensar América Latina desde la literatura así como aborda el problema de la llamada identidad latinoamericana a partir del estudio profundo de Terra nostra una de las obras más complejas y arriesgadas de Carlos Fuentes fruto sin duda de la experimentación estética y formal que asumió la literatura en el contexto de las décadas de 1960 y 1970.
The riveting true story of one of Canadas worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived itThey said it was the worlds deepest and most dangerous coal mine.
The Soviet response to the first edition of Reflections has been a prime example of the new openness under glasnost in discussing previously taboo subjects.
The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times, including the events of January 6, 2021.
In 1884, twenty-three-year-old Corabelle Fellows left her family in Washington, DC, and journeyed out West to teach Native children in Nebraska and Dakota Territory.
In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II.
Moving portraits of eighteen independent women who helped make Colorado what it is todayRemarkable Colorado Women profiles the lives of eighteen of the state's most important historical figureswomen from across Colorado, from many different backgrounds and from various walks of life.
Los textos que conforman el presente volumen fueron publicados por la revista clandestina Policarpo, entre los meses de mayo de 1983 y diciembre de 1985.
Jean Francois Marquis de Chastellux was a military officer in the rank of a major general who served during the War of American Independence in the French expeditionary forces led by general Comte de Rochambeau.
Moving portraits of eighteen independent women who helped make Colorado what it is todayRemarkable Colorado Women profiles the lives of eighteen of the state's most important historical figureswomen from across Colorado, from many different backgrounds and from various walks of life.
To civilized humanity world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid the foundations of that civil and religious freedom upon which has been built a refuge for the oppressed of every land, the story of the Pilgrim "e;Exodus"e; has an ever-increasing value and zest.
Uno de los rasgos mas notables del panorama politico-intelectual de las decadas de 1960 y 1970 en Chile fue el desarrollo de un proceso de acercamiento e intercambio entre el cristianismo y el marxismo por quienes veian en muchas de las proposiciones del marxismo una via legitima para transformar la sociedad chilena y emprender en conjunto la construccion del socialismo entendido como una opcion con contenidos afines al Evangelio.
A New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025 Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.
From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionalsDevelopmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.
From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionalsDevelopmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.
