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  • Haiti and the Dominican Republic

    Seria seria Caribbean
    This volume provides what its title suggests, important historical and general information on the Caribbean island commonly known as Hispaniola and the two countries that coexist there: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The five complete works included herein are:“The History of the Island of Dominica,” by Thomas Atwood begins by the first encounter with the fleet of Christopher Columbus and ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Empire's Crossroads

    A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

    de Carrie Gibson ...
    A "wide-ranging, vivid" narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean ( The Observer).Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson ... Citiți mai mult

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  • The Book of Salsa

    A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

    Seria seria Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music — and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production — was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy César ... Citiți mai mult

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  • The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

    de Eric Williams ...
    Seria seria World Social Change
    In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    de Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Citiți mai mult

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  • PERE BOADAS

    Pioneer of the anarcho-syndicalist action groups in 1920s Barcelona

    Boadas i Rivas was born in Barcelona in 1894 and died in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. Together with Medir Mart and Pere Vandellós, he was one of the leaders of the first anarcho-syndicalist action group organised in Catalonia from late 1917 onwards, before the six-year period of “pistolerismo” erupted in Barcelona. He can, therefore, be regarded as the pioneer of those Barcelona anarcho ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Great Pirate Stories

    de Various ...
    Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate.This collection of classic pirates stories includes those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other legendary scribes. ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Transnational Revolutionaries

    The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866

    de David Doolin ...
    Seria Cartea 71 - Reimagining Ireland
    The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration of the details behind the Fenian invasion, asking why Irish immigrants were motivated to shape ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Visible Empire

    Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

    Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

    Of sea fighters there have been many: the pirate, the fillibusterer, the man-of-warsman, and the privateer. The first was primarily a ruffian and, secondarily, a brute, although now and again there were pirates who shone by contrast only. The fillibusterer was also engaged in lawless fighting on the sea and to this service were attracted the more daring and adventurous souls who swarmed about the ... Citiți mai mult

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  • Cuba

    Such was Columbus' opinion of Cuba, just after he first beheld it, and, after the lapse of four hundred years, the words, making due allowance for the hyperbole of enthusiasm, still hold good. And this, too, in spite of all the trials and tribulations which the fair "Pearl of the Antilles" has been forced to undergo at the hands of her greedy and inhuman masters. ... Citiți mai mult

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