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Book The History of Don Francisco de Miranda s Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America  in a Series of Letters  By a Gentleman  James Biggs  who was an Officer Under that General  to His Friend in the United States  To which are Annexed  Sketches of the Life of Miranda  and Geographical Notices of Caraccas

Download or read book The History of Don Francisco de Miranda s Attempt to Effect a Revolution in South America in a Series of Letters By a Gentleman James Biggs who was an Officer Under that General to His Friend in the United States To which are Annexed Sketches of the Life of Miranda and Geographical Notices of Caraccas written by Francisco de Miranda and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost War for Texas

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  • Author : James Aalan Bernsen
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2024-07-08
  • ISBN : 1648431747
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Lost War for Texas written by James Aalan Bernsen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important themes in US history is the series of struggles that transformed the Southwest from a Spanish to an American possession: the Texas Revolution of 1836 and the Mexican–American War of 1845. But what if historians have been overlooking a key event that led to these wars—another war almost entirely unknown—that took place on what is now US soil and dramatically shaped the development of the American Southwest to this day? The true story of this war, presented in The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811, is only now being revealed by never-before-published research, which will challenge paradigms and reshape much of what we know about United States, Texas, and even Mexican history. In the early 1800s, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars rippled across the Atlantic. Within weeks of the United States’s declaration of war on England in 1812, hundreds of western militia forces rallied to a flag and marched boldly to war—but not for the United States. They instead invaded the province of Texas to make common cause with Mexican rebels who had launched their struggle against the Spanish monarchy the year before. The resulting war changed the Southwest forever. Author James Aalan Bernsen places a spotlight on division and separatism at this pivotal moment of the “second revolution” of the United States. The Lost War for Texas, by revealing the forgotten war of 1811–1812 will profoundly change how we understand the birth of the American Southwest.

Book The Hispanic Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

Download or read book The Hispanic Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century written by Graciela Iglesias-Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Isles (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) a crucial hub for the global Hispanic world, a launching-pad and a bridge between Spanish Europe, Africa, America and Asia in the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Perhaps not unlike today, that was a time marked by social uncertainty, pandemics, the dislocation of global polities and the rise of radicalisms. The volume offers insights on many themes including trade, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism. Established academics and rising stars from different continents and disciplines combined original, primary research with a wide range of secondary sources to produce a rich collection of ten case-studies, 25 biographies and seven samples of interpreted material culture, all presented in an accessible style appealing to scholars, students and the general reader alike. Chapters Introduction; Chapter 1 (Section 1); Chapter 5 (Section 1); Section II; Afterword) of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Book Foreign Legionaries in the Liberation of Spanish South America

Download or read book Foreign Legionaries in the Liberation of Spanish South America written by Alfred Hasbrouck and published by New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited. This book was released on 1928 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unvarnished Truth

Download or read book The Unvarnished Truth written by Ann Fabian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was shifting to a market economy. This well-crafted book describes the fascinating controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced. Drawing on an enormous number of personal narratives—accounts of mostly poor, suffering, and often uneducated Americans—The Unvarnished Truth analyzes a long-ignored tradition in popular literature. Historians have treated the spread of literacy and the growth of print culture as a chapter in the democratization of refinement, but these tales suggest that this was not always the case. Producing stories that purported to be the plain, unvarnished truth, poor men and women edged their way onto the cultural stage, using storytelling strategies far older than those relying on a Renaissance sense of refinement and polish. This book introduces a unique collection of tales to explore the nature of truth, authenticity, and representation.

Book List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library

Download or read book List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Books on Latin American History and Description  with Reference to Articles in Magazines  in the Columbus Memorial Library

Download or read book List of Books on Latin American History and Description with Reference to Articles in Magazines in the Columbus Memorial Library written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rise of the Spanish American Republics as Told in the Lives of Their Liberators

Download or read book Rise of the Spanish American Republics as Told in the Lives of Their Liberators written by William Spence Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences

Download or read book Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Columbia University Studies in the Social Sciences

Download or read book Columbia University Studies in the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Independence of the South American Republics

Download or read book The Independence of the South American Republics written by Frederic Logan Paxson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Legionaries in the Liberation of Spanish South America

Download or read book Foreign Legionaries in the Liberation of Spanish South America written by Alfred Hasbrouck and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alphabetical Catalogue of the Navy Department Library

Download or read book Alphabetical Catalogue of the Navy Department Library written by United States. Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.