CK - Americas 11

Heritage, Tourism, and Race views heritage and leisure tourism in the Americas through the lens of race, and is especially concerned with redressing gaps in recognizing and critically accounting for……続きを見る

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West. He received the nickname "Buffalo Bill" after the American Civil War, when he had a contract to s……続きを見る

"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people ……続きを見る

This is Martha Beckwith's monumental study of Hawaiian mythology. She gives all available variants of each myth or legend, including versions from other Pacific islands including Tahiti, Tonga, Samo……続きを見る

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced withi……続きを見る

Published in 1924, Jamaica Anansi Stories includes folklore (including animal stories, modern stories and old stories), transcriptions of folk music, and a large collection of riddles, all cross-ref……続きを見る

Oliver Stone, ganador de un Óscar de la Academia, y el historiador Peter Kuznick nos desvelan la otra cara de la historia de Estados Unidos analizando los grandes acontecimientos de los últimos años……続きを見る

Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transfo……続きを見る

Moving far beyond the realm of traditional "church history," Patrick Allitt here offers a vigorous and erudite survey of the broad canvas of American religion since World War II. Identifying the maj……続きを見る

In 1961, President Kennedy named Edwin O. Reischauer the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Already deeply intimate with the country, Reischauer hoped to establish a more equal partnership with Japan, which ……続きを見る

In this ambitious new study, Sophie Brockmann argues that interactions with landscape and environment were central to the construction of Central American identities in the Age of Enlightenment. She……続きを見る

In Collecting Objects / Excluding People, Lenore Metrick-Chen demonstrates an unknown impact of Chinese immigration upon nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. The American ideas of "Ch……続きを見る

'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' –Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who ……続きを見る

The first major biography of the 1972 U.S. presidential candidate and unsung champion of American liberalism The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Demo……続きを見る

Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunti……続きを見る

Mucho antes de la invasión europea a América, el Pueblo Escultor habitó las cabeceras del río Magdalena, el valle de San Agustín y áreas adyacentes en el Macizo Colombiano. Fueron los creadores de c……続きを見る

1789 unternimmt der gebürtige Schotte Alexander MacKenzie seine erste Expedition durch die unerforschte Wildnis Kanadas, um für den Pelzhandel eine Nordwestverbindung zum Pazifischen Ozean zu erschl……続きを見る

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines the……続きを見る

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. In factual detail, the text describes the events……続きを見る

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In History Shock: When History Collides with……続きを見る

DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACCOUNTS OF SLAVERY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA One of history’s greatest crimes, the American slave trade led to the suffering of untold numbers of men and wome……続きを見る

A historical novel about the Salem witch trials. A true story about the years 1680 to 1700 and the activities in Salem. A fascinating true tale of how the belief in witches and witchcraft started i……続きを見る

Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nastyーvery nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults, invecti……続きを見る

This book is an engaging account of US history from the first European contact with the 'New World' to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Bruce Kuklick's straightforward yet authoritative narrati……続きを見る

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through i……続きを見る

This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970sーSoul City, Stelle and Twin Oaksーwith an emphasis on their financing, marketing……続きを見る

Explore nineteenth-century America through the pen of one of the most celebrated authors of all time, Charles Dickens. American Notes is a detailed travelogue of Dickens' 1842 tour of North America,……続きを見る

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" is the 1845 autobiography of freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. It recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and his fli……続きを見る

The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-45 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America’s participation in the conflict. Fought over a great ocean and vast battlefields using the most sophisti……続きを見る

El misterio de los mapas antiguos comienza con dos mapas del siglo X, con América dibujada cinco siglos antes de la llegada de Cristóbal Colón en 1492, el cual obviamente no descubrió el Nuevo Mundo……続きを見る