History of the Americas

Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins.

Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century.

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

After the phenomenal success of his first novel Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier described his next novel as being based on the life of a white man who was made an Indian chief, served in the government in Washington D.

The history of barbecue in the United States has until now remained virtually untold.

Sherry Monahan is an authority on "e;the city that wouldn't die"e; and its history.

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucania, Chile's southern borderlands region.

What if we taught young people that they can measure success by how they follow Christ rather than by how much money they make or where they go to college?

The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

Before Brasilia offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goias during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history.

Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States.

Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)the peak of arielismoand proposes a new reading of the arielista archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smother, the ethos of that era.

This is the fascinating, detailed account of the rise and fall of the largest banking house ever before established in the South, whose financial misfeasance during the prosperous twenties led to its eventual collapse and brought ruin to numerous innocent investors.

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America-and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture.

The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, andJohn Jay, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars.

Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination.

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Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history.

Nurturing individual talent in the Canadian Business sectorEvery generation of Canadians wants to pass on an even better version of Canada to the next.

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Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states.

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The Canadian Mind takes a political approach to analyzing authors and their works in the context of Canadian history.

"e;The Charleston Patriots were willing to defend their city .

A heavily illustrated account of how the tanks of 4th Armored Division defeated two panzer brigades over 11 days of battle at Arracourt.

The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867.

This collection of perceptive personal essays brings the meaning of the sacraments to life with unflinching realism and compassion.

Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018Caring for Red is Mindy Fried's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny--an actor, writer, and labor organizer--in the final year of his life.

Author Desi Sanchez, a native of Cuba, was twenty-two years old when the Bay of Pigs incident took place there in 1961.

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations.

Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.

This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.

Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation.

Lockheed has been one of American's largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company).

In this thoroughly researched work, David M.

In Reconstituting Whiteness, sociologist Jenny Irons explores the tactics and legacy of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an agency of the state that existed from 1956 to 1977 and was devoted exclusively to defending and supporting the institution of segregation.

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia.

A gripping collection of true stories that capture the bravery of American pilots who helped win WWII.

A surprising and revealing look inside the Tea Party movement-where it came from, what it stands for, and what it means for the future of American politicsThey burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession-angry voters gathering by the thousands to rail against bailouts and big government.

Beginning with the apostles themselves, Christians have practiced the art of telling their stories to bring others to faith.

I have always been a fan of history, especially military history.