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The Imagined Island by Pedro L. San Miguel
epub |eng | 2005-09-19 | Author:Pedro L. San Miguel [Miguel, Pedro L. San]

A HISTORY (AND A FUTURE) OF SEVERAL PATHS I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths. Jorge Luis Borges Virtually unknown in the Dominican Republic ...
( Category: Dominican Republic February 25,2023 )
Fugitive Freedom by William B. Taylor
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:William B. Taylor [Taylor, William B.]

To start off, I banished a pretty girl from the town because she lived in debauchery. That’s what was said; but the true reason was that she refused to go ...
( Category: Mexico February 24,2023 )
From Confederation to Nation by Jonathan Atkins
epub |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Jonathan Atkins [Atkins, Jonathan]

The Reform Impulse In the Northeast especially, revivalism went beyond saving souls to include improving conditions in the world. Evangelicals like Lyman Beecher—a Yale graduate second only to Finney as ...
( Category: Americas February 24,2023 )
From Far and Wide by Peter Pigott
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Peter Pigott [Pigott, Peter]

With the pilot’s worst enemy — the Arctic weather — some 30 meteorological stations were built by the U.S. military through the eastern Arctic. Late in September 1941, the U.S. ...
( Category: Exploration February 24,2023 )
Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean by Robert D. Taber Charlton W. Yingling
epub |eng | 2020-01-24 | Author:Robert D. Taber, Charlton W. Yingling [Robert D. Taber, Charlton W. Yingling]

The defeat of the French equalled an end to colonialism and slavery and all the prejudices and divisions those institutions spawned. Vastey’s narrative offers a triumphant ending with the erasure ...
( Category: Caribbean & West Indies February 24,2023 )
Freedom for Themselves by Richard M. Reid
epub |eng | 2009-09-16 | Author:Richard M. Reid [Reid, Richard M.]

CHAPTER SIX Families of the Soldiers during the War For many African Americans who volunteered to serve in North Carolina’s Union regiments, enlistment was a time fraught with worries about ...
( Category: Americas February 24,2023 )
Freedom Roots by Laurent Dubois Richard Lee Turits
epub |eng | 2019-10-11 | Author:Laurent Dubois, Richard Lee Turits [Laurent Dubois, Richard Lee Turits]

Rebellion in the Cities Batista’s regime also faced a growing rebellion in the cities. At the start of 1957, armed resistance escalated in Santiago, Havana, and other cities. The urban ...
( Category: Dominican Republic February 24,2023 )
Free and French in the Caribbean by John Patrick Walsh
epub |eng | 2013-04-12 | Author:John Patrick Walsh [Walsh, John Patrick]

A Haitian Itinerary and a Turn to Political Life In the spring of 1944 Césaire embarked on his first visit to Haiti. The Allied blockade of Martinique and Guadeloupe had ...
( Category: Haiti February 24,2023 )
LIVES of FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS FROM COFACHIQUI, THE INDIAN PRINCESS, AND POWHATAN; DOWN TO AND INCLUDING CHIEF JOSEPH AND GERONIMO. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the by Norman B. Wood
pdf |en | | Author: Norman B. Wood

( Category: Native American February 24,2023 )
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
epub |eng | 2018-06-28 | Author:Rosalie Vrylina Halsey [Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina]

Frontispiece. Sr. Walter Raleigh and his man. Of Samuel Hall’s reprints from the popular English publications, “Little Truths” was in all probability one of the most salable. So few books ...
( Category: Americas February 24,2023 )
Finding Cholita by Billie Jean Isbell
epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Billie Jean Isbell [Isbell, Billie Jean]

CHAPTER 9 ROMULO’S LETTER As I stood in front of the battered door to the Rosetti hacienda, echoes of that fiesta so many years ago sounded in my head. My ...
( Category: Peru February 24,2023 )
Improvised Continent by Richard Cándida Smith
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Richard Cándida Smith [Smith, Richard Cándida]

Chapter 11 The New Latin American Novel in the United States Shortly after Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos (“The Lost Steps”) had been published in 1953 in Mexico, Harriet de ...
( Category: Caribbean & West Indies February 24,2023 )
The Failure of Latin America by John Beverley
epub |eng | 2019-06-18 | Author:John Beverley [Beverley, John]

7 CAN CRITICISM BE A MILITANT PRACTICE? ON TESTIMONIO AND CARTONERA LITERATURE Political art cannot work in the simple form of a meaningful spectacle that would lead to an ‘awareness’ ...
( Category: South America February 24,2023 )
Faces of Latin America by Duncan Green
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Duncan Green [Green, Duncan]

The Conquest of Nature The Conquest of the Americas lessened one kind of environmental pressure, but introduced many new ones. Recent archaeological evidence suggests that indigenous agriculture in Mexico and ...
( Category: South America February 24,2023 )
Families in the Expansion of Europe,1500-1800 by Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva
epub |eng | 2020-02-06 | Author:Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva [Silva, Maria Beatriz Nizza da]

Silvia Bravo Sandoval and I read the complete notarial files for six notaries who had active practices in Mexico City in the years between 1775 and 1811, and we found ...
( Category: Brazil February 24,2023 )

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