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Blood and Thunder
An Epic of the American West
by Hampton Sides
Praise for Blood and Thunder “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. Unusually, Sides gives full voice to... (more)
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Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
Bestselling author Sarah Vowell takes listeners on a historical journey to the tropical paradise of Hawaii, a place where American ideals went to die.
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Lost Kingdom
Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
by Julia Flynn Siler
Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with little contact from the western world. In 1778, their isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook. Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Hawaii brings to life the ensuing clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist... (more)
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Ramona
by Helen Hunt Jackson
“If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, “I would be thankful the rest of my life.” Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona , her popular 1884 romantic bestseller. A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera , Ramona enters into a... (more)
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Irresistible Empire
Americas Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe
by Victoria De Grazia
The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire , Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both... (more)
TerrazoAbelardo Milton Diaz Alfaro
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Terrazo
by Abelardo Milton Di?az Alfaro
Text: Spanish
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The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating... (more)
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Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
by Vine Deloria, Jr.
A preeminent Native American activist writer challenges the idea that modern scientific versions of evolution, the creation of the universe, and the settlement of America are more truthful than traditional Native American versions. 20,000 first printing.
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Nantucket: Book 1
Island in the Sea of Time
by S. M. Stirling
It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late 20th century, but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age. Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a... (more)
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Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition
by Robert W. Merry
In Sands of Empire, veteran political journalist and award-winning author Robert W. Merry examines the misguided concepts that have fueled American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. The emergence in the George W. Bush administration of America as Crusader State, bent on remaking the world in its preferred image, is dangerous and self-defeating, he points out. Moreover, these grand-scale flights of... (more)
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Usmail
by Pedro Juan Soto
In USMAÃL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a boy born to a poor, black woman from the rural countryside, whose American lover, sent to Vieques to manage a government assistance program, abandons her upon learning that she is... (more)
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The Way of the Human Being
by Calvin Martin
In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.
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The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
One of the most influential and important books written about the impact of frontier life on a transplanted civilization. Present volume, reprinted from original 1920 edition, lucidly reflects Jackson’s thoughts on the frontier’s role in promoting self-reliance, independence, democracy, immigration and westward expansion. A classic for students and teachers of American history and general readers interested in the... (more)
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Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective
Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country broadens the scope of conventional study of the Lewis and Clark expedition to include Native American perspectives. Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson present the expedition’s long-term impact on the “Indian Country” and its residents through compelling interviews conducted with Native Americans over the past two centuries, secondary literature, Lewis and Clark travel... (more)
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Swish of the Kris, The Story of the Moros, Authorized and Enhanced Edition
by Vic Hurley, Christopher L. Harris, Vio Hurley
THIS NEWLY ENHANCED EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S 1936 BOOK IS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE CURRENT MORO (ISLAMIC FILIPINO) POLITICAL AND BRUTALLY SAVAGE EVENTS IN THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS,INCLUDING ABU SAYYAF AND THE HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO BOTH TRADIONAL AND RADICAL ISLAM. It now contains photographs and maps from the author's private collection never before available; a new introduction... (more)