MB - Americas 1

The Falklands / Malvinas War (1987) uses the conflict as a case study to discuss and analyse the inability of the major powers to develop a coherent and stable Developing World policy to emphasise c……続きを見る

This is the story of the first ten years of SAMS and the remarkable reputation quickly acquired by its graduates, educated in a pre-World War II horse cavalry stable at Fort Leavenworth. It is also ……続きを見る

Maya and the Four Heavens is a sweeping narrative history of the ancient Maya, tracing their extraordinary civilization from its earliest origins in the rainforests of Mesoamerica to the vibrant ind……続きを見る

A New York Times bestselling author writes about West Point. This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original fo……続きを見る

In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model ……続きを見る

The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new "world situation" left in the wake of the ……続きを見る

Los malos de la historia: Malinche «Empezaré por una advertencia. Si el lector busca entre estas páginas una biografía del tipo: "La Malinche nació en el año tal, cursó sus estudios en la escuela pr……続きを見る

En esta Antología de Rufino Blanco Fombona la reflexión sobre el temperamento español coincide con apreciaciones sobre Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, González Prada, Rubén Darío, Leopoldo Lugones, Osca……続きを見る

Breviario del Nuevo Mundo es una antología de textos de Alejandro de Humboldt contiene textos que escribió durante su viaje, acompañado del naturalista francés Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, entre……続きを見る

Ensayo político sobre la isla de Cuba, de Alejandro de Humboldt, es un libro clave en el análisis de la esclavitud en el Caribe en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. 続きを見る

How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb trace……続きを見る

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Chile-Mission der Menzinger Schwestern vom Heiligen Kreuz Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. In der Mission konnten sie in Bereichen agieren, die in Europa normalerweise ……続きを見る

Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battleground……続きを見る

This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a……続きを見る

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract lab……続きを見る

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the Britis……続きを見る

My family has had a long line of story tellers in it. This is a story (I've confirmed it by the way) my grandfather always told about our struggle against slavery and a historic event that trumped t……続きを見る

Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing l……続きを見る

A short memior part history and part 21st century, From four hundred years of raising cattle to president Obama. Covers parts of florida most people never hear about. Explains the differences betwee……続きを見る

In 1778, George Washington, Philip Schuyler, army officers, and New York officials began planning invasions against Iroquoia, the homeland of the Haudenosaunee and several other allied Indigenous na……続きを見る

Established in 1865 by Carl Klemer, the Faribault Woolen Mill is an authentic example of American craftsmanship. In 150 years of business, the company's success has relied on stewardship from the Kl……続きを見る

This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to dis……続きを見る

Este libro revolucionará todo lo que creíamos saber acerca de las culturas precolombinas que habitaron el territorio hoy conocido como Perú. EstEl Imperio inca no apareció de la noche a la mañana y ……続きを見る

Now in its fifth edition, this volume offers a clear, concise, and nuanced history of U.S. foreign relations since the Spanish–American War and places that narrative within the context of the most i……続きを見る

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950–53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in con……続きを見る

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract lab……続きを見る

New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage is the first collection by historians to examine foreign immigration to Mexico as a way to interpret the significance of Me……続きを見る

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late……続きを見る

What does it take for women to win political office? This book uncovers a gendered qualifications gap, showing that women need to be significantly more qualified than men to win elections. Applying ……続きを見る

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness": the ethic o……続きを見る