Author: Clairece Booher Feagin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876943519
Category : Reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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“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: Erik A. Bruun
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN: 9781579120672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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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:
ISBN:
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Traces American history between 1816 and 1865. Includes the beginnings of political division and the origins and battles of the Civil War.

Author: GLENCOE2016
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780076634538
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 952

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Author: Irwin Unger
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780132299657
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Irwin Unger, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, wrote this book after discovering from his own experiences teaching American History at the University of California at Davis and at NYU, that a thematic approach was much more interesting to students than a purely descriptive one.

Author: Britta H. Crandall
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300262337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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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: McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780076599394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1072

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Author: Lynne Cheney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481485695
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser, creators of the bestselling America: A Patriotic Primer and A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, take you on an unforgettable tour of America—from the Everglades of Florida to the grasslands of Kentucky to the Sierra Mountains of California. Come along on a summer vacation from state to amazing state, and learn about interesting regional and historic facts along the way with an energetic family, and even the family dog!