Dive into the extraordinary life of the 26th President of the United States with Henry Pringle's meticulously researched and captivating biography, "e;Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography.
THE LITTLE WAR OF PRIVATE POST is a stirring, funny, brave, sympathetic piece of Americana-the memoir of a foot soldier in the Spanish-American War who happened also to be a first-rate artist, carrying a sketchbook along with his gun.
First published in 1954, THE BISHOP OF BROADWAY chronicles the life of David Belasco (1853-1931), an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright who became the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage, thereby launching the theatrical career of many actors, including Mary Pickford, Lenore Ulric and Barbara Stanwyck.
Con la presperctiva del historiador moderno y la agudeza el periodista, el autor aborda los sucesos sociales, políticos, económicos y culturales acaecidos en nuestro país desde su pasado más remoto hasta el fin de siglo.
First published in November 1959, this is the bestselling account of the fire at The Cocoanut Grove, a premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s in Boston, Massachusetts, on the night of November 28, 1942.
¿Qué vínculo tiene la fundación de una colonia agrícola-pastoril de alemanes en la Patagonia con las disputas interimperialistas previas a la Primera Guerra Mundial?
El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la historia de la región del Nahuel Huapi entre 1880 y 1935, desde las actividades económicas -en especial los circuitos mercantiles-, la organización social del espacio y la movilidad de las relaciones sociales, hasta las comunicaciones dialécticas entre la ciudad, la región y el mundo.
Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and many-faceted genius.
Beginning with a general discussion of American Indian origins, language families, and culture areas, Deloria then focuses on her own people, the Dakotas, and the intricate kinship system that governed all aspects of their life.
Este libro nos propone una mirada detallada a los últimos días del presidente Balmaceda: la crisis que termina con su gobierno, la derrota en el campo de batalla, el asilo político y las preocupaciones que atormentaron los veinte días de su espera y que lo llevaron a optar por la muerte.
This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the "e;best dressed woman in the West.
'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with extraordinary sweep, one of the least known great stories of British and American history.
Los trabajos aquí presentados fueron expuestos en una reunión de la Red de Estudios Rurales convocada al efecto en el Instituto Ravignani el 18 y 19 de octubre de 2012 bajo el título "Coyunturas críticas y movilización popular en el largo siglo XIX".
The acclaimed historian and author of the classic A Peoples History of the United States offers a deeply personal look at the events, issues, and people that matter to us allBased on Howard Zinn's interviews on public radio with host David Barsamian, Original Zinn brings into focus a wide range of foreign policy and domestic issues central to our lives today and showcases Zinn at his most engaging and provocative.
The amazing true story of America's most famed lost gold mines and epitome of Western traditions, this book tells the tale about the Lost Dutchman gold mine in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona during the late 1930s and 1940s.
