North America category: 699 books
Cultural Genocide and the Italian-American Legacy
A Culture Hijacked by Popular Myth and Media Misrepresentation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Do you know the name of the Italian-American that the U.S. government now recognizes as the true inventor of the telephone? Do you know the name of the Tuscan colonist who Thomas Jefferson paraphrased in his famous all men are created equal clause in the Declaration of Independence? Did you know that...
The Red Record Revisited:
African American Lynching Then & Now
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Today, many people have never heard the terms Lynch Law or lynching. Lynching carries a few different connotations. On the one hand it suggest the brutal practice of hanging black people or African Americans by mobs of white people.
On the other hand it speaks to an entire...
The Cultural Roots of the 1622 Indian Attack
Richard Pace and Chanco Save Jamestown
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
An early American history of Jamestown, Virginia, ‘The Cultural Roots of the 1622 Indian Attack’ shows the cultural aspects of the lives of both English settlers and American Indians, along with the bravery of Richard Pace and his loyal Indian companion Chanco who saved...
Colonial Chesapeake
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
In Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives leading scholars offer interdisciplinary revisionist essays on the political, cultural and social history of early Maryland and Virginia, calling special attention to the importance of power relations, reproductive politics, and identity politics in the shaping...
Strategy Six Pack 14 (Illustrated)
Mark Antony, Two Years Before the Mast, Daniel Boone, David Crockett, A Ride to Khiva and Six Years With the Texas Rangers 1875-1881
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
* “All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”*
Daniel Boone.
Strategy Six Pack 14 is a 1,000 page plus digital trove of historical nuggets, featuring two biographies of early American legends, Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky and David Crockett,...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Extrait :
"THE NAME "OLD MASTER" A TERROR—COLONEL LLOYD'S
PLANTATION—WYE RIVER—WHENCE ITS NAME—POSITION
OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET
OFFERING—JOURNEY FROM TUCKAHOE TO WYE
RIVER—SCENE ON REACHING OLD
MASTER'S—DEPARTURE OF GRANDMOTHER—STRANGE
MEETING OF...
Rosicrucian Order, AMORC
Rosicrucian Digest
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC.
by William Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1630 and 1647, the journal describes the...
The Sense of Power
Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Prior to the publication of The Sense of Power most studies of the Canadian movement for imperial unity focused on commercial policy and military and naval cooperation. This influential book demonstrated that the movement – which held that Canada could only become a great nation within the British...
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Ce livre écrit par Alexis de Tocqueville entre 1835 et 1840 est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo.
De la démocratie en Amérique est d'abord et avant tout une analyse sur la démocratie représentative républicaine, et de ses formes particulières aux États-Unis.
L'œuvre...
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
C'EST dans une époque reculée des annales américaines qu’il faut chercher les incidents sur lesquels se fonde cette histoire. Un demi-siècle s’était écoulé depuis qu’une colonie d’Anglais pieux et dévoués, fuyant la persécution...
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
QUAND M. Effingham se fut déterminé à retourner en Amérique, il envoya ordre à son gérant de mettre sa maison de New-York en état de le recevoir. Il avait dessein d’y passer l’hiver, et d’aller à sa maison de campagne quand le printemps...
by James Fenimore Cooper, J.B. Defauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Le magnifique bras de mer qui baigne les côtes d’Amérique entre le quarantième et le quarante et unième degré de latitude, est formé par les confluents de l’Hudson, le Hackensack, le Passaic, le Rariton et une multitude de petites rivières...
by James Fenimore Cooper, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
IL y a, sous un certain rapport, une visible amélioration dans la bonne ville de Manhattan ; elle éclate dans son architecture. Quant à son accroissement, cela ne fait pas question, tandis qu’un grand nombre d’autres villes lui disputent cette prétention au perfectionnement....