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Reflections on the Neches
A Naturalist's Odyssey along the Big Thicket's Snow River
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
When Geraldine Watsons father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years...
by William H. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The story of the fall of the Inca civilisation in Peru is one of the most astonishing episodes ever to occur in history; and in the skilful hands of William H. Prescott, one of America's greatest historians, it takes on a new dimension. The narrative positively seethes with detail, drama, as the...
History of the Inca Empire
An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on...
Dancing with Dynamite
Social Movements and States in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere.
Conflict in the Early Americas
An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
As the study of world history evolves from a Eurocentric perspective to a more global viewpoint, formerly marginalized groups are now the focus of discussion, revealing a background rich with important military, political, social, and economic achievement
by Domingo F. Sarmiento
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a writer and journalist who would become the seventh president of Argentina. His 1845 book, "Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism" is considered a cornerstone of Latin American literature, a work of creative non-fiction that illustrates the region's development, modernization,...
Becoming the Tupamaros
Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In Becoming the Tupamaros, Lindsey Churchill explores an alternative narrative of US-Latin American relations by challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of revolutionary movements like the Uruguayan Tupamaros group. A violent and innovative organization, the Tupamaros demonstrated that...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Pizarro
Conqueror of the Inca
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. It was a long way from his humble beginnings...
by Spenser Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The history of a war cannot be properly written until long after its close, for such a work must be based upon a close study of the military correspondence of the generals and upon the best records, to be had of the doings of both sides. Nor can the tactical lessons of a war be fully set forth until detailed and authoritative accounts of the battles are accessible.
Transatlantic Obligations
Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world. Family began...
by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Tragedies of Cañon Blanco is the recollections of Cavalry officer Carter, who chased the Comanches in the Texas Panhandle in the mid 19th century.
Scribbling the Cat
Travels with an African Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity...
Alabama Warbird Survivors 2003
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2002
Some of the finest military warbirds in American aviation history are still flying in the Southern State of Alabama. Many of them are on display in a number of excellent air museums, or they have been mounted on pylons to stand as memorials to the many military aviators who called Alabama home. This...