CK - Americas 5

Nickolaus Pacione operating under the notes and findings of Industry Mate, Paul Gifford, and a freelance boss, Victor Ostrovsky in Scottsdale, Arizona, about the outbreaks. Pacione reading the news ……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

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an ……続きを見る

This book contains the traditional Creation and Geneological Chant of the Hawaiian royal family, along with Beckwith's extensive textual, anthroplogical, and historical commentary. This is one of th……続きを見る

From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines. Beginning with a colorful……続きを見る

What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressing the relationship between populism and social wel……続きを見る

"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in th……続きを見る

The Millheim and Cat Spring Pioneers German Immigrants Building a New Life in Texas This book is a continuation of an effort began in 2015 by a handful of individuals with an interest in the history……続きを見る

Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela El……続きを見る

Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have the……続きを見る

The comparison of Donald J. Trump and Joseph Smith Jr. Leaders who aspired to a dictatorship government; a mobocracy for Trump and a theocracy for Smith. From their families origin in the United Sta……続きを見る

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost……続きを見る

Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a pla……続きを見る

Forord af Poul Erik Skammelsen Den amerikanske drøm er under pres. Drømmen, der er en af grundpillerne i den amerikanske selvopfattelse, bliver sjældnere til virkelighed end tidligere. Ikke desto mi……続きを見る

Originally published in 1969, this book summarizes the findings of a comprehensive survey of the successive roles played by the explosive constellations of cities in American history. The book exami……続きを見る

Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Althoug……続きを見る

This textbook serves as an introduction to the major economic topics and events in Latin America’s history, from the settling of the region by indigenous Americans and then Europeans, Africans and A……続きを見る

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt pre……続きを見る

For many Americans, their last look at U.S. History was their junior year in high school. A Mighty Case Against War challenges America, and all people, to revisit the stories of how nations have dea……続きを見る

Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum America……続きを見る

’Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.’ So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, re……続きを見る

First published in May 1845, ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass’ is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former male slave, Frederick Douglass. In factual detail……続きを見る

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees 'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical f……続きを見る

Le radici storiche e ideali della “Repubblica americana” sono indagate da Bruckberger a partire dalla Dichiarazione d’Indipendenza del 1776. La “rivoluzione” americana segna una rottura con la polit……続きを見る

For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal……続きを見る

'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly,……続きを見る

The Maya people were one of the most sophisticated civilizations in Mesoamerica. They built many cities, pyramids and other structures that are still standing today. The Mayan Empire has been a subj……続きを見る

How did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs? In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examine……続きを見る

Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul S……続きを見る

Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ……続きを見る