History of the Americas

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape.

In light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate.

The true story of the Caribbean Piracy has been obscured through time by whimsical stories, which create confusing and distorted images of these characters, by not defining the line that divides reality from fiction.

FOOTPRINTS OF ASSURANCE is a comprehensive and complete record of fire marks used by fire insurance companies in sixty-three countries.

America in the 1800s was a very hard-working society.

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An indispensable guide to right living from a Founding Father.

Thurston Clarke's gripping account of the last months of the life of President John F.

La decisión de Prometeo Libros de volver a publicar Campesinos y estancieros.

Con este libro, Contente se introduce en el mundo rural de la campaña bonaerense de los siglos XVIII y XIX, poniendo especial atención en algunas familias campesinas de dos zonas puntuales: una de antigua colonización como La Matanza y otra de colonización más reciente como San Vicente.

Written by an outstanding authority and profusely illustrated, this is a comprehensive study of the Indians that lived from Yakutat Bay in Alaska to the northern coast of California.

Home From The War gives a voice to Vietnam veterans.

Like most Southern counties, Floyd County, Virginia, enthusiastically supported the Confederacy at the outset of the Civil War.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

First published in 1931, this is the complete history of Santa Fe, New Mexico written by Santa Fe native, Ruth Laughlin.

Here are the characters and personalities of the three great Union generals, explored with intelligence and wit by one of our most distinguished historians of the Civil War.

Jesse James is Dead!

"e;We are dealing here with a living literature,"e; wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians.

Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, 'Selling Your Father's Bones' is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA.

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

The farmers, workers, and pioneers of America in the 1800s were nourished by a tradition of hearty, down-home cooking that is still a part of our national cuisineNew England baked beans, roast beef, turkey, corn on the cob, and pumpkin pies.

In der Geschichte von Staaten gibt es selten die Chance für einen wirklichen Neuanfang.

Este clásico de la historiografía argentina, abrió en su día perspectivas totalmente novedosas sobre el estudio de la construcción del estado en el Río de la Plata.

One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada.

The changes which brought the city of Miami of today are delightfully described in this book of personal reminiscences, written by one of Florida's earliest settlers in collaboration with his life-long friend, Vincent Gilpin.

¿Cuál fue la intervención de la gente corriente en el proceso de la independencia?

For most people the details of the American Revolution, the history of Thanksgiving and the Battle of the Alamo are sketchy at best.

Esta obra presenta el análisis de un evento comunicativo en el cual se emplea una lengua ritual (lengua del yagé).

Knudsen tells the tale of the immigrant bicycle mechanic who revolutionized American industry and buried the Axis powers with mass production.

Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933.

Eva March Tappan's "e;A Friend in the Library"e; series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The American Civil War is often studied because of its battles, but people tend to ignore how it helped revolutionize the medical field.

Esta obra inicia la COLECCIÓN GRAN CARIBE, proyecto editorial que se propone difundir diversos aspectos de la realidad histórica, económica, social, política y cultural de los países que integran la Gran Cuenca del Caribe, región a menudo poco estudiada por la literatura académica.

Master storyteller Gore Vidal's 1952 classic.

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild.

The year 1957 marked the publication of Robert Ruark's best seller, The Old Man and the Boy, a tale of "e;infinite warmth and wisdom, love and understanding "e; It told of the Boy, Ruark himself, and the Old Man, his grandfather, as they roamed the North Carolina outdoors together, savoring the sights, sounds, and smells of the earth.

Explore the Enigma of the Arcane PathsDiscover a world where shadows dance with the light, revealing truths long hidden and paths less traveled.

The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret from the bestselling author of NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO'An extraordinary book' DAILY EXPRESS'Revelatory .

A majority of ethnographer Morris Edward Opler's research was done on Native American groups of the American Southwest.

An incisive and thought-provoking collection of essays on a defining American experience, curated by the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

No matter who you identify withDemocrat or Republican, Tea Party or Green Party, Independent or something else altogetherwe the people should read: The Constitution of the United States of AmericaThe Bill of Rights and all of the AmendmentsThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Articles of Confederation Take a moment or two to reflect on the words of our forefathers, as these are the documents that literally created America.