History of the Americas

Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer.

Rethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism.

En Derumbamiento de los Mundos, sumergete en un viaje a través del tiempo hasta las arenas místicas del antiguo Egipto, donde los dioses gobiernan y los destinos de los hombres se tejen con los hilos de la magia y el poder divino.

Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, (1859 - 1881) was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21.

A timely biography of General William C.

Now in its third edition, Ways of War is a comprehensive guide to United States military history and its wider relationship to American society, from the seventeenth century to the present day.

This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less violent conditions of conviviality.

Seit Anbeginn der Zivilisation haben Menschen feierliche Schwüre und Eide geleistet, um Wahrhaftigkeit, Treue und Verpflichtungen zu bekräftigen.

On May 17, 1954, in Brown v.

The sixth edition of The Sixties is a provocative account of a transformative era in American history, exploring the significant political, social, and cultural changes that many citizens found to be not only necessary, but mandatory.

Reminiscences of Peace and War is a book based on author's journals which is intended to contribute to public discourse about the Civil War.

In 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador had a widely celebrated oral culture but little visual art.

A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.

Dieses eBook: "Der Virey und die Aristokraten (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

"e;Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan"e; AUTHOR described the life and adventures of his two close friends Thomas Fox and the great chief Pitamakan (Running Eagle).

From the Introduction:"e;The reader of the following pages, having already seen what has induced me to come forward with an historical account of the Indians, after so many have written on the same subject, will perhaps look for something more extraordinary in this than in other works of the kind which he has seen.

A Kansas Notable BookArnold Bauer grew up on his familys 160-acre farm in Goshen Township in Clay County, Kansas, amidst a land of prairie grass and rich creek-bottom soil.

The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has typically been told from the perspective of the coastsin places like New York, San Francisco, and Miami.

The period between 1860 and 1920inclusive of the Gilded Age and much of the Lochner era in legal historyis typically regarded as the heyday of conservative jurisprudence.

"e;The Origin of the Nation"e; is an essential collection for all those who want to learn about the core of American democracy and its principles.

The climate crisis' most difficult questions are not technological but relational.

Conversations On Common Things: Or Guide to Knowledge by Dorothea Lynde Dix is a delightful and enlightening compendium that aims to educate and inspire young minds through engaging and accessible dialogues.

Step into the dramatic and intense world of the American frontier with George H.

This is the first academic work to focus explicitly on Pentecostal public theology in Europe.

In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader.

Let the music and lyrics of Christian tradition guide you through the forty days of Lent toward the joy of Easter.

Ned is a young Englishman who is bitten by the bug of Californian gold rush.

"e;This little book is intended as, and professes no more than a plain statement of facts, so that others may learn what I have read, seen and heard, without undergoing the pain of incarceration in the hands of Yankees, whose tyranny increases in proportion to the power they possess over their victims.

"e;The ceremony of dsilyidjeqacal, or mountain chant-literally, chant towards (a place) within the mountains-is one of a large number practiced by the shamans, or medicine men, of the Navajo tribe.

Through a chronological and thematical approach, this book examines the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the effect on what President George W.

The Texan Star & The Texan Scouts are historical action adventure novels.

An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy.

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals.

This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America's railroad system.

This book investigates the phenomenon of the political coexistence of the United States with Cuba that developed between the beginning of the John F.

At the outset of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Army of the Ohio (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee) was a fledgling force beginning an arduous journey that would make it the best cavalry in the world.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von Tikal, der verlorenen Metropole der Maya-Zivilisation, verborgen im dichten Dschungel Guatemalas.

The Beaches is one of Toronto's best known and most admired neighbourhoods.

At the outset of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Army of the Ohio (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee) was a fledgling force beginning an arduous journey that would make it the best cavalry in the world.

"e;What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry?

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Winning of the West: A History of the American Frontiers"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

On the 13th September, 1759, there lay upon the bloody Plains of Abraham two men.

Frommers books arent written by committee, by AI, or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done.

El Islam es objeto de interminables controversias y mucha confusión.

Was wir vom Untergang Roms für die Zukunft des Westens lernen können Der Westen befindet sich in einer Krise: Unsere Demokratie ist angeschlagen, die Deindustrialisierung bedroht den Wohlstand und Flüchtende machen sich auf in westliche Länder und stehen vor den Toren.

One a revolutionary leader and the other a vagabond who deserted from the Continental Army, Samuel Adams and Henry Tufts appear opposites, yet they were two sides of the same coin.

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879-1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 - a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland's union with Canada in 1949.