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Earthquake History of the Americas

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2021
This essay reads Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's El primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno (1615) as a meditation on the all-devouring historical system produced by the colonial-global. The Quechua historian's particular adaptation of both Christian scriptural knowledge and the vexed early modern European tradition of natural and moral philosophy ...
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The Hidden History of the Americas

Monthly Review, 2006
Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 480 pages, hardcover $30.00.Countless, almost perfectly round, forested islands dot the remote, watery plain of the Beni in eastern Bolivia. A millennium ago the islands were linked by causeways, parts of an intricate landscape management system ...
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The History of Central America

2005
Central America is an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, with sweeping panoramic vistas of tropical vegetation, towering mountains, and striking ethnic and racial diversity. This tropical paradise has a history as diverse as its people and cultures.
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The History Of America

Umfang im Detail: Vol.I: xl, 320 Seiten; Vol.II: iv, 457 Seiten; Vol.III: 4 ungezählte Seiten, 412 Seiten, 38 ungezählte Seiten, 1 ungezähltes gefaltetes Blatt Bildtafel; [Vol.IV:] XXX, 160 ...
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The history of America / by William Robertson

2023
Ex Libris Ignacio Bernal y García ...
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History of the Americas

The William and Mary Quarterly, 1953
Harold A. Bierck, John Francis Bannon
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The Hidden History of Mestizo America

The Journal of American History, 1995
On a dank January evening in London in 1617, the audience was distracted from a performance of Ben Johnson's The Vision of Delight by the persons sitting next to King James I and Queen Anne: a dashing adventurer who had just returned from the outer edge of the fledgling English empire and his new wife, ten years his junior.
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The Study of History in America

Blackfriars, 1943
The New York Times in June 1942, published the ‘Charted Results of a Survey on College Study of U.S. History,’ with a commentary by Benjamine Fine under the heading : ‘U.S. History Study is not required in 82 per cent, of Colleges’ and again, a sub-heading : ‘72 per cent, do not list it as an entrance prerequisite.’ For a European like myself ...
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How the History of America Began

1993
Germán Arciniegas (1900-1999), distinguished Colombian essayist and historian, author of over fifty books, and many columns in the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
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Reassessing the History of Postwar America

Prospects, 1995
In the american popular imagination, the 1950s and 1960s stand in stark juxtaposition. The conformity of the 1950s contrasts with the rebelliousness of the 1960s. Consumerism was undermined by the challenge of youthful antimaterialism. Repressed sexuality gave way to sexual liberation. Political centrism yielded to polarization.
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