La Merica: The First True History of the Colonization of the Americas., Paperback - MR Arthur Faram

La Merica (la mer'.e.ca) Ancient Portuguese name for America. Meaning: "The Western Star" This book is made possible by the re-discovery of an anci...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peaco...

Reducere. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, long before the Vikings discovered the New World, the indigenous cultures of the America...

Reducere. A beautiful presentation of this Marian Feast. Illustrated in full color.

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience a...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Th...

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The British S...

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

Reducere. Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a gl...

DescriptionIn Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politic...

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Max AdamsNumber ...

Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Americas, then keep reading...The one-character trait that sometimes surpasses the human ins...

Through physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, Joseph Merrick spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

Reducere. George Meegan is an adventurer, lecturer, school reformer, and world traveller. He holds eight Guinness World Records, the most official world reco...

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

Description"A beautiful and inspiring book...fascinatingly told." -- Donna Shirley, former head of the U.S. Mars program, NASAThe exhilarating stor...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is quite time that our children were taught a l...

Reducere. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah are an indigenous people on Martha's Vineyard. From their legendary giant leader Moshup, Wampanoags can tr...

Reducere. "The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied, " writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can." The seven...

Early ornithologist Francis Willughby has his story told in this biography, tracing his contributions to the classification of birds, with Birkhead...

World trade was revolutionized in the 19th Century when ships went from sail to steam. When did the first steamship cross the Atlantic? Who built i...

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TO BE RELEASED IN CINEMAS 28TH FEBRUARY 2020'Extraordinary . So mesmerising and moving.' Mail on S...

Reducere. According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was ...

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.

Reducere. This formidable history of South Carolina stretches from the territory's discovery, through its earliest years, its nascence as a prospering colony...

Reducere. Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Ro...

An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumber o...

Reducere. This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and communi...

Reducere. Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expedi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 20 color plates, 60 halftones, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensi...

DescriptionCalifornia's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was c...

Reducere. *Includes over 50 pictures of the civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya, Inca and Aztecs, from l...

OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Henry K. MillerIllustration(s): 24 b-w illustrations, 1 mapNumber of pages: 250Publication date...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Kate VigursIllustration(s): 22 b-w illus. + 1 mapNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The full story of the thirty-nine female agents of SOE F section who went undercover in France, revealing for the first time how their fates contra...

Reducere. In 1443, Imperial China ruled the seas. The God-chief of Cahokia ruled the lands along the Father of Waters. And, the Piasa was about to be created...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Reducere. This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric...

Reducere. "The Sages of Old Live Again in Us." With the aim of making the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius approachable for a contemporary reader, author M ric ...

Reducere. This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...