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Author |
: Michael Neagle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2016-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107136854 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107136857 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Forgotten Colony by : Michael Neagle
Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.
Author |
: Dana Huntley |
Publisher |
: Lyons Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2021-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 149305953X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781493059539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Forgotten Colonial History by : Dana Huntley
This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight religious Puritans followed them and the whole place became New England. There were some Dutch down in New York, and sooner or later William Penn and the Quakers came to build the City of Brotherly Love in Pennsylvania, and finally it was 1776 and time to revolt against King George III and become America. That's it. That's the narrative of American colonial history known to one and all. Yet there are 150 years - six or seven generations between Plymouth Plantation and the 1770s - that are virtually unknown in our national consciousness and unaccounted for in our American narrative. Who, what, when, where and why people were motivated to make a two-month crossing on the North Atlantic to carve a life in a largely uncharted, inhospitable wilderness? How and why did they build the varied societies that they did here in the New World colonies? How and why did we become America? America's Forgotten Colonial History tells that story.
Author |
: Mike Bunn |
Publisher |
: NewSouth Books |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2020-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588384140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588384144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fourteenth Colony by : Mike Bunn
The British colony of West Florida—which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America's Revolutionary era. The colony's eventful years as a part of the British Empire form an important and compelling interlude in Gulf Coast history that has for too long been overlooked. For a host of reasons, including the fact that West Florida did not rebel against the British Government, the colony has long been dismissed as a loyal but inconsequential fringe outpost, if considered at all. But the colony's history showcases a tumultuous political scene featuring a halting attempt at instituting representative government; a host of bold and colorful characters; a compelling saga of struggle and perseverance in the pursuit of financial stability; and a dramatic series of battles on land and water which brought about the end of its days under the Union Jack. In Fourteenth Colony, historian Mike Bunn offers the first comprehensive history of the colony, introducing readers to the Gulf Coast's remarkable British period and putting West Florida back in its rightful place on the map of Colonial America.
Author |
: Aviva Chomsky |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2021-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807056486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807056480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Central America's Forgotten History by : Aviva Chomsky
Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and Indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression, Chomsky highlights the pernicious cycle of colonial and neocolonial development policies that promote cultures of violence and forgetting without any accountability or restorative reparations. Focusing on the valiant struggles for social and economic justice in Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras, Chomsky restores these vivid and gripping events to popular consciousness. Tracing the roots of displacement and migration in Central America to the Spanish conquest and bringing us to the present day, she concludes that the more immediate roots of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras lie in the wars and in the US interventions of the 1980s and the peace accords of the 1990s that set the stage for neoliberalism in Central America. Chomsky also examines how and why histories and memories are suppressed, and the impact of losing historical memory. Only by erasing history can we claim that Central American countries created their own poverty and violence, while the United States’ enjoyment and profit from their bananas, coffee, mining, clothing, and export of arms are simply unrelated curiosities.
Author |
: Michael E. Neagle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2016-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316727867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316727866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Forgotten Colony by : Michael E. Neagle
America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902–58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions waned after the nineteenth century. Many Americans, anxious about a 'closed' frontier in an industrialized, urbanized United States, migrated to the Isle and pushed for agrarian-oriented landed expansion well into the twentieth century. Their efforts were stymied by Cuban resistance and reluctant US policymakers. After decades of tension, however, a new generation of Americans collaborated with locals in commercial and institutional endeavors. Although they did not wield the same influence, Americans nevertheless maintained a significant footprint. The story of this cooperation upsets prevailing conceptions of US domination and perpetual conflict, revealing that US-Cuban relations at the grassroots were not nearly as adversarial as on the diplomatic level at the dawn of the Cuban Revolution.
Author |
: Eric B. Schultz |
Publisher |
: The Countryman Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2000-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781581577013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 158157701X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict by : Eric B. Schultz
King Philip's War--one of America's first and costliest wars--began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a full-scale war engulfing all of southern New England. At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful reconstruction of events, first-person accounts, period illustrations, and maps, and by providing information on the exact locations of more than fifty battles, King Philip's War is useful as well as informative. Students of history, colonial war buffs, those interested in Native American history, and anyone who is curious about how this war affected a particular New England town, will find important insights into one of the most seminal events to shape the American mind and continent.
Author |
: Pedro A Malavet |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2007-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814757413 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814757413 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Colony by : Pedro A Malavet
An examination of the legal relationship between U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Author |
: Scott Dawson |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2020-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439669945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439669945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by : Scott Dawson
New archeological discoveries may finally solve the greatest mystery of Colonial America in this history of Roanoke and Hatteras Islands. Established on what is now North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, the Roanoke Colony was intended to be England’s first permanent settlement in North America. But in 1590, the entire population disappeared without a trace. The only clue to their fate was the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree. For centuries, the legend of the Lost Colony has captivated imaginations. Now, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, working with the Croatoan Archaeological Society, have uncovered tantalizing clues to the fate of the colony. In The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.
Author |
: Alison Sky |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: 089659341X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780896593411 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Unbuilt America by : Alison Sky
Pictures and describes abandoned architectural projects, explaining why they did not materialize
Author |
: Russell Shorto |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2005-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400096336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400096332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Island at the Center of the World by : Russell Shorto
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.