History of the Americas

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.

This book looks at the lives of the women from Hove and Portslade, ranging from artists, musicians, writers, performers, reformers, pioneering doctors and business-women to those employed in factories, shops, laundries and as domestic servants, not forgetting, of course, women's contribution to war-work in both of the world wars.

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'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.

One of the classic short stories based around the American Civil War.

Chasing Villa is a record of events in Western history, military history, the Mexican Revolution, and the last of the horse cavalry.

The author invites her reader to come with her on a journey into the past.

Por qué los caminos hacia el diseño constituyente fueron tan distintos en Argentina y Estados Unidos?

Fue nuestra vocación que la heterogeneidad de los temas elegidos, las inclinaciones diferenciales de las argumentaciones y la pluralidad de espacios de análisis confluyeran en una discusión con las dicotomías –la más notoria, aquella donde Estado y sociedad civil son polos esencialmente antagónicos– hasta el momento prevalecientes en los estudios sociales del siglo veinte.

Esta es una fuente de consulta para la resolución de diversas inquietudes sobre la identidad de las personas que ejercían la autoridad durante el año del comienzo del proceso de la Independencia.

The struggles experienced during the American Revolution gave birth to personalities and organizations that now mark history books.

This book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form.

The battle of Chickamauga brought an early fall to the Georgia countryside in 1863, where men fell like autumn leaves in some of the heaviest fighting of the war.

El devenir de la construcción del proceso democrático reciente, ha desplegado diversas instancias de reflexiones críticas al modo de abordar la Cuestión Malvinas y de los procesos posteriores de reflexión.

Luego de la Guerra de la triple Alianza Argentina y Brasil expandieron sus fronteras sobre el Alto Paraná en detrimento del Paraguay.

This volume features a series of historical and informative publications delving into the dark and mysterious subject of demonology.

1810 fue un año admirable en la vida de las colonias hispanoamericanas.

La vida y obra de José Mexía Lequerica han sido tratadas por diversos historiadores, con énfasis en sus tres últimos años de vida cuando brilló como diputado en las Cortes de Cádiz.

Few people had the opportunity to know Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Grace Tully did.

The Waugoshance Lighthouse was the first offshore lighthouse on the Great Lakes and it has been left abandoned for decades.

"De la consulta previa al consentimiento libre, previo e informado a pueblos indígenas de Colombia", profundiza en los ejes centrales de este derecho fundamental que tienen los pueblos indígenas y demás grupos étnicos cada vez que se prevea tomar una decisión administrativa o legislativa que los afecten directamente.

Originally published in 1931, this is a fictionalized account of author Alison Uttley's childhood experiences at her family farm home in Castletop, near Cromford.

This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America.

This is Joseph Kinsey Howard's last major work.

One hundred and twenty-five years of steamboating in Muskoka come alive with the anniversary celebration of the RMS Segwun.

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America is what it is today because of the decisions made by its former leaders.

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The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England - valued for its incredible purity - revolutionised domestic life around the world.

In the two hundred years since their arrival in America, elephants have worked on farms, mills, mines, and railroads, in Hollywood, and in professional baseball.

En 1973 el profesor Brajnovic publica sus Grandes figuras de la literatura universal y otros ensayos , un libro leído por decenas de promociones de universitarios.

With the principles of democracy firmly established after the War for Independence, Americans in the 1800s took their politics very seriously.

El surgimiento de una de las mas exitosas economias exportadoras del planeta en el que hasta el siglo XVIII habia sido un rincon muy poco prometedor de un arcaico imperio colonial constituye sin duda el tema central de la historia de la Argentina moderna.