This is the story of the lineage of Boxings World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in that era.
"e;Cow Country Cavalcade"e; by Maurice Frink is an insightful and comprehensive chronicle of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA), detailing its profound impact on the cattle industry and the development of the American West over eight decades.
Robert Morris II recorded eight hours of interviews with his father, Robert Morris, MD (1904-1990), from which he drafted an autobiography and presented it to his dad on his 85th birthday.
Robert Morris II recorded eight hours of interviews with his father, Robert Morris, MD (1904-1990), from which he drafted an autobiography and presented it to his dad on his 85th birthday.
The Navajo creation myth, called the Dine Bahane', is one of the greatest stories of the Native American peoples, filled with evocative images of nature and wondrous storytelling.
As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett.
A crazy, provoking epic story full of interesting true stories of the hidden lives of the local residents of Caribbean town and the people who live in the surrounding villages, not excluding the dark and strange goings-on at the islands landmark between the twin Piton Mountains.
HIS FAMOUS NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR-THE BLOODY STRUGGLE FOR THE RICHES OF THE WILD NORTHWEST AND THE DESPERATE FIGHT OF A MAN AND WOMAN TO HOLD IT FOR THE UNION.
El periodo conocido como la "Hegemonía conservadora" cubre las tres primeras décadas del siglo XX y está delimitado por dos hechos que marcaron la historia de Colombia: la separación de Panamá en 1904 y la matanza de las bananeras en 1929, en los cuales Estados Unidos tuvo un papel trascendental.
A HARD-RIDING, QUICK-SHOOTING ADVENTURE, FEATURING HOPALONG CASSIDYHopalong Cassidy, Red Connors and Johnny nelson rode across the searing inferno of the Staked Plains and challenged Kane-who dominated the country like a colossus.
Recuerdos de un hacendado es una obra literaria de Godofredo Daireaux, escritor y educador francés, quien vivió en Argentina durante una gran parte de su vida.
El Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón —transcrito por Bartolomé de las Casas— nos descubre a un personaje fascinante y contradictorio, que pasa del entusiasmo a la desconfianza o a las especulaciones geográficas más aventuradas (la confusión, por ejemplo, de Cuba por Cipango, el nombre que los europeos daban a Japón durante el Medioevo).
"e;Life of Robert Louis Stevenson"e; by Sir Graham Balfour is an authoritative and richly detailed biography that delves into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of the beloved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
El Diario histórico de la rebelión y guerra de los pueblos guaraníes, de Tadeo Xavier Henis, es una crónica de los conflictos coloniales entre España y Portugal durante el siglo XVIII, en el territorio de Río Grande del Sur.
In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860.
