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Author : Clairece Booher Feagin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Reading
ISBN : 0876943512
Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393242850
“A rich and moving chronicle for our very present.” —Julio Ortega, New York Times Book Review The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater. This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and conquistadores who planted Spain’s first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Southwest. Missionaries and rancheros carry Spain’s expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling California, mapping the American interior to the Rockies, and charting the Pacific coast. During the nineteenth century Anglo-America expands west under the banner of “Manifest Destiny” and consolidates control through war with Mexico. In the Hispanic resurgence that follows, it is the peoples of Latin America who overspread the continent, from the Hispanic heartland in the West to major cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and Boston. The United States clearly has a Hispanic present and future. And here is its Hispanic past, presented with characteristic insight and wit by one of our greatest historians.
Author : Britta H. Crandall,Russell C. Crandall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262339
An accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relations “Our Hemisphere”? uncovers the range, depth, and veracity of the United States’ relationship with the Americas. Using short historical vignettes, Britta and Russell Crandall chart the course of inter‑American relations from 1776 to the present, highlighting the roles that individuals and groups of soldiers, intellectuals, private citizens, and politicians have had in shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America in the postcolonial, Cold War, and post–Cold War eras. The United States is usually and correctly seen as pursuing a monolithic, hegemonic agenda in Latin America, wielding political, economic, and military muscle to force Latin American countries to do its bidding, but the Crandalls reveal unexpected yet salient regional interactions where Latin Americans have exercised their own power with their northern and very powerful neighbor. Moreover, they show that Washington’s relationship with the region has relied, in addition to the usual heavy‑handedness, on cooperation and mutual respect since the beginning of the relationship.
Author : Erik A. Bruun,Jay Crosby
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1579120679
Encompassing more than one thousand primary sources and documents, a history of the United States presents an array of articles, speeches, letters, and court cases, ranging from the Declaration of Independence to the Starr Report.
Author : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : IND:30000050556186
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Americanization
ISBN : UCSD:31822003102498
Author : Merle Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0826945694
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0060528427
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author : Oliver Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0988379732
Author : John Soares,Irwin Unger
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0136142354
This study resource includes commentary, definitions, identifications, map exercises, short-answer exercises, and essay questions.
Author : Beverly Vaillancourt,Peoples Publishing Group, Incorporated, The
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : Geography
ISBN : 1562561200
Author : Kathleen E. Bradley
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780743905503
In this short play, a brief story of the writing of the United States Constitution is told.
Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544457
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an “American” or “Canadian” culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, and the rivalries and alliances between its component nations, which conform to neither state nor international boundaries. He illustrates and explains why “American” values vary sharply from one region to another. Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how intranational differences have played a pivotal role at every point in the continent's history, from the American Revolution and the Civil War to the tumultuous sixties and the "blue county/red county" maps of recent presidential elections. American Nations is a revolutionary and revelatory take on America's myriad identities and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and are molding our future.
Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101903469
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was --and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.
Author : Caitlin Fitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871407658
A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America’s independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776. Even as Latin Americans were gradually ending slavery, U.S. observers remained energized by the belief that their founding ideals were triumphing over European tyranny among their “sister republics.” But as slavery became a violently divisive issue at home, goodwill toward antislavery revolutionaries waned. By the nation’s fiftieth anniversary, republican efforts abroad had become a scaffold upon which many in the United States erected an ideology of white U.S. exceptionalism that would haunt the geopolitical landscape for generations. Marshaling groundbreaking research in four languages, Caitlin Fitz defines this hugely significant, previously unacknowledged turning point in U.S. history.