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Book Colonizaci  n y conflictos en el Oeste  Settling and Unsettling the West  6 Pack for California

Download or read book Colonizaci n y conflictos en el Oeste Settling and Unsettling the West 6 Pack for California written by and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonizaci  n y conflictos en el Oeste  Settling and Unsettling the West  6 Pack

Download or read book Colonizaci n y conflictos en el Oeste Settling and Unsettling the West 6 Pack written by and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the First Annual Palo Alto Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of the First Annual Palo Alto Conference written by Aaron P. Mahr Yáñez and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mexican War  1846 1848

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl Jack Bauer
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803261075
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book The Mexican War 1846 1848 written by Karl Jack Bauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).

Book Border Contraband

    Book Details:
  • Author : George T. Díaz
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2015-02-28
  • ISBN : 0292761066
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Border Contraband written by George T. Díaz and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015 Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border shifted their emphasis to the interdiction of prohibited items (particularly guns and drugs) that threatened the state. Díaz's pioneering research explains how greater restrictions have transformed smuggling from a low-level mundane activity, widely accepted and still routinely practiced, into a highly profitable professional criminal enterprise.

Book Infamy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Reeves
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 0805099395
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Infamy written by Richard Reeves and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps. In Infamy, the story of this appalling chapter in American history is told more powerfully than ever before. Acclaimed historian Richard Reeves has interviewed survivors, read numerous private letters and memoirs, and combed through archives to deliver a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. Men we usually consider heroes-FDR, Earl Warren, Edward R. Murrow-were in this case villains, but we also learn of many Americans who took great risks to defend the rights of the internees. Most especially, we hear the poignant stories of those who spent years in "war relocation camps," many of whom suffered this terrible injustice with remarkable grace. Racism, greed, xenophobia, and a thirst for revenge: a dark strand in the American character underlies this story of one of the most shameful episodes in our history. But by recovering the past, Infamy has given voice to those who ultimately helped the nation better understand the true meaning of patriotism.

Book Elisa s Hunger

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  • Author : Carolina Monsivaís
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-04-15
  • ISBN : 9780984426843
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Elisa s Hunger written by Carolina Monsivaís and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry Collection. Tongues unfold across generations as Monsivais' elegant honesties bring us bruises and nooses...but also fruits and prayers...and language and memories connected to the U.S./Mexico border.

Book The United States and Mexico

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  • Author : Josefina Zoraida Vazquez
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1987-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780226852058
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book The United States and Mexico written by Josefina Zoraida Vazquez and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josefina Zoraida Vazquez and Lorenzo Meyer recreate, from a distinctly Mexican perspective, the dramatic story of how one country's politics, economy, and culture have been influenced by its neighbor. Throughout, the authors emphasize the predominance of the United States, the defensive position of Mexico, and the impact of the United States on internal Mexican developments.

Book North America Divided

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  • Author : Seymour V. Connor
  • Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book North America Divided written by Seymour V. Connor and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Hat for Minerva Louise

Download or read book A Hat for Minerva Louise written by Janet Morgan Stoeke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stoeke's second book about that intrepid screwball, Minerva Louise, is a rare find."—The Horn Book, starred review The other chickens hate snowy mornings. But not Minerva Louise! To her a snowy day—like everything else—is an adventure. But this chilly, chipper hen needs something to keep her warm. What she finds—and how she finds it—will keep young readers cackling. "Minerva Louise expresses a range of emotions from pleasure to curiosity. . . . A great choice for storytime."—School Library Journal, starred review An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Book Triumphs and Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780393310665
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book Triumphs and Tragedy written by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of Mexico from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to the present day.

Book A Complete History of the Mexican War

Download or read book A Complete History of the Mexican War written by Nathan Brooks and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daisylocks

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  • Author : Disney Book Group Staff
  • Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
  • Release : 2011-01-18
  • ISBN : 1423151550
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Daisylocks written by Disney Book Group Staff and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the woods, in a pretty little cottage, lived Three Bears—Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear. On the other side of the forest lived a girl named Daisylocks. One morning, the Three Bears left for a stroll through the forest...and Daisylocks did, too! But as Daisylocks walks through the forest, she arrives at the Three Bears' home and decides to go inside! Don't miss this hilarious retelling of the classic story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears—with a Disney twist!

Book Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso

Download or read book Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso written by Carolina Monsivaís and published by Wings Press (TX). This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poesia Tejana Prize is given to Texas Latina poets under the age of 30.

Book Natchitoches Colonials  a Source Book

Download or read book Natchitoches Colonials a Source Book written by Elizabeth Shown Mills and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sign of the Eagle

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  • Author : John James Peck
  • Publisher : San Diego, Calif. : Union-Tribune Publishing Company
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Sign of the Eagle written by John James Peck and published by San Diego, Calif. : Union-Tribune Publishing Company. This book was released on 1970 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shamrock and Sword

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  • Author : Robert Ryal Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989-09
  • ISBN : 9780806129648
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Shamrock and Sword written by Robert Ryal Miller and published by . This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamrock and Sword's setting is the U.S.-Mexican War, remembered by Americans as an illustration of Manifest Destiny, the inevitable extension of the American frontier. It is remembered differently by Mexicans, who lost a substantial portion of their territory to an invading army. Perceptions on both sides of the border will be reshaped by Robert Ryal Miller's account of American soldiers who deserted to fight in the Mexican army. Miller uncovers the reasons for these desertions, presenting the soldiers' stories as they are revealed in records of the time. Many of these deserters were immigrant Irishmen.