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Author : James Truslow Adams
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412847018
Originally published in 1931 by Little, Brown, and Company.
Author : John Armstrong Crow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UOM:39015008666482
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780795339851
“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of 1871 and several cholera epidemics, to its winner-take-all politics, dynamic business empires, breathtaking architecture, its diverse cultures, and its multitude of writers, journalists, and artists, Chicago’s story is violent, inspiring, passionate, and fascinating from the first page to the last. The winner of the prestigious Great Lakes Book Award, given to the year’s most outstanding books highlighting the American heartland, City of the Century has received consistent rave reviews since its publication in 1996, and was made into a six-hour film airing on PBS’s American Experience series. Written with energetic prose and exacting detail, it brings Chicago’s history to vivid life. “With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.” —John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times “Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories.” —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams and Truman “An invaluable companion in my journey through Old Chicago.” —Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Devil in the White City
Author : Jim Cullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195173253
The first "narrative history" traces the thread that binds the dreams and aspirations of most Americans together, exploring shared history and sacred texts--the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence--in search of the origins of these ideas.
Author : Carrie Gibson
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802146359
A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire’s Crossroads. Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots?ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today. El Norte chronicles the dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present?from Ponce de Leon’s initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico. Interwoven in this narrative of events and people are cultural issues that have been there from the start but which are unresolved to this day: language, belonging, community, race, and nationality. Seeing them play out over centuries provides vital perspective at a time when it is urgently needed. In 1883, Walt Whitman meditated on his country’s Spanish past: “We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them,” predicting that “to that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts.” That future is here, and El Norte, a stirring and eventful history in its own right, will make a powerful impact on our national understanding. “This history debunks the myth of American exceptionalism by revisiting a past that is not British and Protestant but Hispanic and Catholic. Gibson begins with the arrival of Spaniards in La Florida, in 1513, discusses Mexico’s ceding of territory to the U.S., in 1848, and concludes with Trump’s nativist fixations. Along the way, she explains how California came to be named after a fictional island in a book by a Castilian Renaissance writer and asks why we ignore a chapter of our history that began long before the Pilgrims arrived. At a time when the building of walls occupies so much attention, Gibson makes a case for the blurring of boundaries.” —New Yorker “A sweeping and accessible survey of the Hispanic history of the U.S. that illuminates the integral impact of the Spanish and their descendants on the U.S.’s social and cultural development. . . . This unusual and insightful work provides a welcome and thought-provoking angle on the country’s history, and should be widely appreciated.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, PW Pick
Author : Dr. Andrew Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 1350197408
"A lively introduction to the rich and complex tradition of Latin literature from colonial Spanish America, and to its best known author, the poet Rafael Landivar. Rafael Landivar is the best known of all the poets from the Americas to write in Latin. In the 15 books of his Rusticatio Mexicana (1782), he described - in vivid epic verse - the lakes, volcanoes, and wildlife of Mexico and his native Guatemala, as well as the livelihoods and recreations of the people of the region. This panorama of nature, culture and production in colonial New Spain took classical didactic poetry into a new world of political conflict. But Landivar also writes with a strongly personal voice: elegiac and pastoral modes convey the pathos of displacement and the poet's overwhelming nostalgia for his American homeland. Andrew Laird's introduction provides information about Landivar's life and exile to Italy, explains his diverse intellectual heritage, and collects his shorter works (translated into English here for the first time). A 1948 text of the Rusticatio Mexicana, with a translation by Graydon W. Regenos, is included in this volume.""--Provided by publisher.
Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679763888
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
Author : Bernard MacMahon,Allison McGourty,Elijah Wald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501135606
The companion book to the ground breaking Arena documentary series airing on the BBC that celebrates the pioneers and artists who gave us modern American music
Author : Bobbie Kalman,Niki Walker
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778734528
A basic introduction to the history, geography, climate, and culture of the United States.
Author : Gina Keating
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101601433
Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a DVD player. They were surprised and elated when launch-day traffic in April 1998 crashed their server and resulted in 150 sales. Today, Netflix has more than 25 million subscribers and annual revenues above $3 billion. Yet long- term success-or even survival-is still far from guaranteed. Journalist Gina Keating recounts the absorbing, fast-paced drama of the company's turbulent rise to the top and its attempt to invent two new kinds of business. First it engaged in a grueling war against video-store behemoth Blockbuster, transforming movie rental forever. Then it jumped into an even bigger battle for online video streaming against Google, Hulu, Amazon, and the big cable companies. Netflix ushered in such innovations as DVD rental by mail, a patented online queue of upcoming rentals, and a recommendation algorithm called Cinematch that proved crucial in its struggle against bigger rivals. Yet for all its success, Netflix is still a polarizing company. Hastings is often heralded as a visionary-he was named Business Person of the Year in 2010 by Fortune-even as he has been called the nation's worst CEO. Netflix also faces disgruntled customers after price increases and other stumbles that could tarnish the brand forever. The quest to become the world's portal for premium video on demand will determine nothing less than the future of entertainment and the Internet. Drawing on extensive new interviews and her years covering Netflix as a financial and entertainment reporter, Keating makes this tale as absorbing as it is important.
Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781421404899
This book investigates the concept of what it means to be 'epic' and its form in American life, literature, and art from the country's early days.
Author : Lucia Raatma
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781610805285
Learn about the history, culture, and geography of Thailand.
Author : Molly Aloian,Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778730751
An introduction to the geography, climate, animals, plants, people, natural resources, and tourist spots of North America.
Author : Katie Marsico
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615906376
Explore The Time Of Slavery In America Through Engaging Text, Detailed Illustrations, And Photos Of Artifacts.
Author : Kim Anne Bellefontaine
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554539581
An alphabet book of American places and things.