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1	The Comanche Empire more books like this by Pekka Hamalainen add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $14.59! \| SVS
2	Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment more books like this by David J Weber add to wishlist Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by ... see all copies from $7.30! new only from $11.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Struggle and Survival in Colonial America more books like this by David G Sweet add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $7.19! new only from $25.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 more books like this by David Armitage (Editor), Michael J Braddick (Editor) add to wishlist This is a new edition of a pioneering edited collection which offers a thematic treatment of the creation, consolidation and reconfiguration of the early modern British Atlantic world. It takes into account the latest developments in the field, including hot topic of transnational history, with two new essays and a revised Introduction. It ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $32.36! \| SVS
5	France in America more books like this by W. J. Eccles add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
6	Wake of the Perdido Star more books like this by Gene Hackman, Daniel Lenihan add to wishlist Jack O'Reilly is a 17 year old New Englander who, in 1805, sails with his parents on the Perdido Star to Cuba to claim inherited land. But his parents are murdered and their land confiscated, reducing him to rejoin the Star as a crew member. His soul seared, Jack becomes the pirate "Black Jack". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Me Oh Maya more books like this by Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
8	Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America more books like this by Timothy J Shannon add to wishlist Atlantic Lives is a primary source reader designed for undergraduate courses in Early American and Atlantic World History. Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections that place Early American History in a comparative context with the wider Atlantic World. These selections come from a wide variety of non-traditional ... see all copies from $20.98! new only from $67.50!
9	The Aztec News more books like this by Philip Steele add to wishlist Readers are introduced to life in the ancient city of Tenochtitlan--home of the Aztec people--through a series of newspaper articles about politics, religious practices, farming methods, and military activities of this culture. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
10	History of the buccaneers of America more books like this by James Burney add to wishlist The last of his published works, History of the Buccaneers of America, published in 1816, is Burney's historical account of the Spanish, English, and French expansion in the New World. In it, he takes a harsh look at those "miscreants" from his own country who took up arms against the Spanish explorers for glory, revenge, and gold and stole ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico more books like this by Laura A Lewis, Laura a Lewis, Walter D Mignolo (Editor) add to wishlist Through an examination of caste in sixteenth - and seventeenth-century Mexico, "Hall of Mirrors" explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the caste categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto and mestizo were generated within that setting, as she shows ... see all copies from $10.78! new only from $25.19! \| SVS
12 view cover	Los Nacimientos more books like this by Eduardo H Galeano add to wishlist see all copies from $35.23! new only from $35.23! \| SVS
13	American colonial history illustrated by contemporary medals more books like this by Charles Wyllys Betts add to wishlist see all copies from $37.68! new only from $37.68! \| first editions
14 view cover	In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730 more books like this by James Pritchard add to wishlist The decades between 1670 and 1730 were the most formative in the history of the French colonies in the Americas. A sufficient number of migrants arrived from France and Africa to create settlements, establish economies of production, develop networks of exchange and trade, and adapt institutions of government and law to give substance and form to ... see all copies from $25.25! new only from $25.25! \| SVS
15 view cover	Atlantic American Societies: From Columbus Through Abolition 1492-1888 more books like this by Alan L Karras (Editor), J R McNeill (Editor) add to wishlist Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturation and transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery. Suggesting a shift in the traditional units of analysis away from nationally defined boundaries, this volume considers all of the Americas - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.09! \| SVS
16	The golden Antilles. more books like this by Timothy Severin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 more books like this by Nicholas P Canny add to wishlist ". . . a pioneer reconnaissance of the notion of colonial identity in the post-Columbian world."--B. W. Higman, The Journal of American History "It is these creoles, `colonials as opposed to the `colonised, who form the subjects of Canny and Pagdens intelligent new book. In its compact pages we watch the {colonials} attempting to work out `who and ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $44.94! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas more books like this by John Smolenski (Editor), Thomas J Humphrey (Editor) add to wishlist As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of imperial history and the hidden narratives of social ... see all copies from $13.43! new only from $19.71! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Seeds of Change: The Story of Cultural Exchange After 1492 more books like this by J Davis Hawke, Sharryl Hawke, Dale Seymour Publications Secondary (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from $19.15! new only from $99.00!
20 view cover	The British in the Americas, 1480-1815 more books like this by Anthony MacFarlane, Dr. Anthony McFarlane add to wishlist Of northern European nations, the British had the greatest impact on the Americas. Their history there embraces far more than the colonies that became the United States: England had been in the New World for a century before those colonies were established, and the British presence long outlived their loss. This integrated account of that ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $62.83!
21 view cover	British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire more books like this by Steven Sarson add to wishlist This book combines the histories of colonies and empire - usually distinct fields of inquiry - in a sweeping introduction to and interpretation of the British-American New World, arguing that while settlers created colonies, the early empire remained a largely imaginary construct. This account examines the way in which the New World was invented ... see all copies from $18.05! new only from $34.99! \| first editions
22	Early kingdoms in Madagascar, 1500-1700 more books like this by Raymond K. Kent add to wishlist see all copies from $2.65! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 more books like this by Betsy Maestro, Giulio Maestro add to wishlist A study of what happened to the Americas after their discovery by Christopher Columbus and subsequent gold-hungry conquistadors, who gave scant attention to those people for whom these lands were home. Illustrated in colour. A MULBERRY BOOK. see all copies from $4.46! new only from $4.46! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Pirates and Privateers of the Caribbean more books like this by Jennifer Watson, Jenifer Marx add to wishlist Colorful, cunning, and beholden to no man, pirates have always fascinated us. This book is about some of those sea outlaws -- the pirates and privateers who infested the Caribbean for over three centuries, constituting one of the most fascinating chapters in a three-thousand-year saga of piracy. A select bibliography and index are included. see all copies from $4.19! new only from $4.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? more books like this by Professor Philip P Boucher add to wishlist Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has until now been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and culture of this region - and particularly France's role in them - in the two ... see all copies from $14.02! new only from $14.90! \| SVS

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