West category: 3403 books
by Glenn A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit into multinational corporations with significant political and economic influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. These companies relied...
by Philip Varney, Jim Hinckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Ghosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake of the Old West.
Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns...
The Life of Captain Cipriani
An Account of British Government in the West Indies, with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth century. It is partly based on James's interviews with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875–1945). As...
West Coast Road Eats
The Best Road Food from San Diego to the Canadian Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
As "locavore" becomes part of our everyday vocabulary and food critics continue to give West Coast cuisine accolades for its freshness and sustainability, West Coast Road Eats shows how why we eat-and where we eat it-matters more than ever. Part guidebook, part travelogue, and part history...
Great Rides of Today's Wild West
A Horseman's Photographic Journey Across the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Veteran travel writer, photographer, and horseman Mark Bedor returns with another breathtaking adventure across the American West. This gorgeous photographic collection showcases twenty-six horseback rides across the United States (with one trip abroad to the great Australian Outback). For each, Bedor...
by Danielle Lerois
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Danish West Indies History, and Slavery Periodic Analysis. An Examination of Slave Life in the Danish West Indies. A Book on Danish West Indies The Danish West Indies consisted of three small islands in the Caribbean situated to the east of Puerto Rico, namely Saint Thomas since the 1660s, Saint John...
More Than Cowboys
Travels Through the History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
So many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details:When, in 1803, the young USA doubled its size with the purchase from France of an unexplored vastness called La Louisiane, it was a British bank which lent the Americans most of the 15 million that they didn’t have. So the...
The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans...
Great Ranches of Today's Wild West
A Horseman's Photographic Journey Across the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
In this beautiful collection, veteran travel writer Mark Bedor takes readers on a journey through twenty of the great ranches of today’s Wild West. With over 200 stunning full-color photographs, reading Great Ranches of Today’s Wild West is almost as good as being there. Take a horseback ride...
Old Blue's Road
A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (History)
In Old Blue’s Road, historian James Whiteside shares accounts of his motorcycle adventures across the American West. He details the places he has seen, the people he has met, and the personal musings those encounters prompted on his unique journeys...
by Keith Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Surrounded by miles of magnificent white sand beaches, protected by coral reefs and brushed by the constant breeze of the trade winds, Barbados is a swimmers paradise. The west coast beaches are calm and lapped by the Caribbean. The south coast has small to medium waves that are great for windsurfing...
by Keith Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Surrounded by miles of magnificent white sand beaches, protected by coral reefs and brushed by the constant breeze of the trade winds, Barbados is a swimmer’s paradise. The west coast beaches are calm and lapped by the Caribbean. The south coast has small to medium waves that are great for windsurfing...
Ghost Towns of the Mountain West
Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2010
The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides...
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional...