This new and very important collection of essays reinterprets and updates the history of New York's Puerto Rican community and its leaders from the beginnings of the great migration...więcej »
The 16th- and 17th-century Iberian Atlantic was a turbulent world of adventurers, slave traders, and forced conversion to Catholicism. The Spanish and Portuguese rulers used caste and “blo...więcej »
One of Puerto Rico's leading historians, Fernando Picó has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in which developments in the c...więcej »
From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas -- ...więcej »
"First to disembark were passengers traveling first class, businessmen, well-to-do families, students. In second class, where I was, there were the emigrants, most of us tabaqueros...więcej »
The Bork hearings marked the beginning of a trend toward ideological evaluation of Supreme Court judicial nominees. These were the first and last hearings to feature such extensive discussion of...więcej »
“This book is excellent.” — Junot Diaz, in the New York Times Book Review “Frank Moya Pons is the best-known contemporary Dominican historian. The author of many books and articles, he is a recogni...więcej »
“This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering over [one] thousand years of trans-Saharan trade. “Finely written and researched. … This edition will no doubt whet the...więcej »
Al-Narshakhi's The History of Bukhara is unusual among histories of Middle Eastern cities because it provides a broad and perceptive overview of urban life of the time, as opposed to the standard b...więcej »
First U.S. paperback edition, spring 2006. Reprint of the 1984 edition with a new, extensive introduction by the author."A comprehensive and tolerant study, devoid of jargon......więcej »
The decades after 1750 saw the Ottoman empire undergo tremendous stresses that culminated in the first stirrings of nationalism among Christian subjects and an irrevocable commitment to reform b...więcej »
An oil boycott was the crucial factor in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was organized by the U.S. against Japan, which feared economic strangulation, and attacked Pearl Harbor as the culminatio...więcej »
A journey in search of Middle-earthIn 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hike...więcej »
Never Outgrow Small Boreens is a breathtaking and exploration of the soul of Ireland and the depth of the Irish culture. Native-born Irish author and poet Martine O'Donovan draws i...więcej »
2019 Reprint of 1901 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The Gospel of the Holy Twelve presents vegetarian ver...więcej »
2019 Reprint of 1910 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. “In 1910 the Dixie Publishing Company Published The ...więcej »
2017 Reprint of 1898 Revised Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Young's Literal Translation is a translation of...więcej »
2013 Reprint of 1888/1889 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Published by Oxford University Press, this remains a central referenc...więcej »
2019 Reprint of 1962 Harper ' Row Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. “What is the meaning of being?' This is the...więcej »
2012 Reprint of 1936 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is an English translation of the oldest known cookbook in existence. ...więcej »