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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
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Stephan Talty
Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees.
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Aztec Rage
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Gary Jennings, Junius Podrug, Robert Gleason
"This is a book that will change your ideas about Mexican history and the whole history of the Americas. It resonates with original research and vivid drama."--Thomas Fleming, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Liberty! The American Revolution on Aztec Rage."
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
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Inga Clendinnen
This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive ...
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Aztec Blood
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Gary Jennings
This book continues the vision Gary Jennings had in telling the entire history of Mexico through novels. "Aztec Blood" returns us to a bygone era, to a people who have had both their lands seized and their spirits crushed by the most powerful empire in the world, the Spanish empire. Its brutal conquistadors have forced the once-mighty Aztec empire ...
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Sharpe's Devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821
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Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe, Cornwell's popular and adventurous hero, returns in this new historical thriller that leads him on a dangerous mission to South America and to a momentous encounter with Napoleon. Sharpe's Devil weaves a tale of treachery and heroics so real, and a plot so ingenious, readers will be entranced.
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The Stranger from the Sea: A Novel of Cornwall 1810-1811
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Winston Graham
Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world - one of both love and danger. This novel is set in early-19th-century Cornwall.
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The Comanche Empire
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Pekka Hamalainen
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in ...
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Aztec Fire
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Gary Jennings, Robert Gleason, Junius Podrug
Continuing the fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling novel "Aztec"
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Sharpe's gold : Richard Sharpe and the destruction of Almeida August 1810
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Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of the war, now hidden behind enemy lines. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader, feared by ally and enemy alike. And he has no love ...
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Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810
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Bernard Cornwell
In this installment in the long and eventful career of his perennial hero, Bernard Cornwell sends Captain Sharpe to Portugal, where he must protect the city of Lisbon from the ravening French army under Napoleon. Before long, not only the French but a pair of murderous Portuguese brothers are out for his blood. As if that's not enough, a sleazy ...
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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
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Margarita Engle
It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not tree. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish--Rosa does her ...
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The Raiders
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Elmer Kelton
Kelton continues the story of the Lewis family and the formative years of the Lone Star state in this second installment of the saga of early Texas.
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Sharpe's Escape: Portugal, 1810
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Bernard Cornwell
In this installment in the long and eventful career of his perennial hero, Bernard Cornwell sends Captain Sharpe to Portugal, where he must protect the city of Lisbon from the ravening French army under Napoleon. Before long, not only the French but a pair of murderous Portuguese brothers are out for his blood. As if that's not enough, a sleazy ...
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Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899
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Samuel C Hyde, Jr.
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Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture
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Diana Sorensen Goodrich, Diana Sorensen
Domingo F. Sarmiento's classic 1845 essay Facundo, Civilización y Barbarie opened an inquiry into the nature of Argentinian culture that continues to the present day. In this elegantly written study, Diana Sorensen explores the varied, and often conflicting, readings that Facundo has received since its publication and shows how these readings have ...
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The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico
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Colin M MacLachlan
"The Forging of the Cosmic Race" challenges the widely held notion that Mexico's colonial period is the source of many of that country's ills. The authors contend that New Spain was neither feudal nor pre-capitalists as some Neo-Marxist authors have argued. Instead they advance two central themes: that only in New Spain did a true mestizo society ...
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Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810
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James G Basker
An anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than 400 poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than 250 poets, both famous ...
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Struggle and Survival in Colonial America
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David G Sweet
Here are the fascinating stories of twenty-three little-known but remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English, and Portuguese colonies of the New World between the 16th and the 19th centuries. Women and men of all the races and classes of colonial society may be seen here dealing creatively and pragmatically (if often not successfully) with the ...
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Mexico Since Independence
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Leslie Bethell (Editor)
Mexico Since Independence brings together six chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social and political history of Mexico since independence from Spain in 1821. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history. Each ...
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The Pirate's Son
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Geraldine McCaughrean
Nathan, 14, dreams of fighting pirates in faraway lands. Then his father dies, leaving him penniless. When Tamo, the son of a famous pirate, invites Nathan to join him in Madagascar, it seems as if Nathan's daydreams are coming true.
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Me Oh Maya
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Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley (Illustrator)
The Book whisks the Time Warp Trio to the main ring ball court in Chichen Itza, Mexico, in the year 1000 A.D. Now the boys are playing for their lives with the Mayan High Priest as their opponent. Illustrations.
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Los Capitalistas: Hispano Merchants on the Santa Fe Trade
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Susan Calafate Boyle
This volume recounts the little-known history of Hispano merchants in the Santa Fe trade during the nineteenth century. Contrary to ethnic stereotypes, Hispanos were ambitious, savvy businessmen who practised the most modern methods of international finance. Their complex transactions linked Santa Fe with Chihuahua City, St. Louis, New Orleans, ...
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
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M O Skarsten, Robert C Carriker (Introduction by)
George Drouillard's service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition, and from many more obscure documents, letters, and legal records, M. O. Skarsten presents not merely an account of the pursuits in which Drouillard engaged, ...
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The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810-1930
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Rebecca Earle
Why does Argentina's national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place ...
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El Gran Pueblo: A History of Greater Mexico
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Colin M MacLachlan, William H Beezley
For courses in Mexican History, 20th Century Mexican History, and Chicano Studies. Based on the belief that people--not institutions--make history, this narrative examines the challenges that the Mexican people have faced since independence, and tells the story of their resiliency and creative character during the years of political and economic ...
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