Cast in Deathless Bronze [[electronic resource] ] : Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire / / by Donald Tunnicliff Rice |
Autore | Rice Donald Tunnicliff |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Morgantown, [West Virginia] : , : West Virginia University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 pages) |
Disciplina | 973.8/9092 |
Soggetto topico |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Spanish-American War, 1898 - Secret service - United States Intelligence officers - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-943665-44-3
1-943665-45-1 |
Classificazione | HIS038000BIO008000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. "It is meritorious to be a boy at West Point" -- 2. Becoming an Intelligence Officer -- 3. "A Most Perilous Undertaking" -- 4. America Takes a Step towards Empire -- 5. The Creation of an American Myth -- 6. Exactly Where Are the Philippines? -- 7. A Glorious Undertaking -- 8. Captain Rowan in Command -- 9. An Idyllic Spot to Spend the War -- 10. Major Rowan in Love and War -- 11. The Complexities of Retirement -- 12. The Myth Lives On -- Epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136143103321 |
Rice Donald Tunnicliff | ||
Morgantown, [West Virginia] : , : West Virginia University Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Haiti Fights Back : The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte / / Yveline Alexis |
Autore | Alexis Yveline |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 972.94/04092 |
Collana | Critical Caribbean studies |
Soggetto topico |
Revolutionaries
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Revolutionaries - Haiti |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Biographies. |
Soggetto non controllato | Haiti, Haitian, Haitian Studies, Charlemagne Péralte, guerrilla, US military, resistance zones, Hinche, Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haïtien, political movement, Haitian women, men, caco leader, caco, Caribbean people, Caribbean, liberty, equality, U.S. Invasion, violence, fighting, Second Revolution, Carib |
ISBN | 1-9788-1544-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Haiti Fights (Ayiti Goumen) -- 1. Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity/Humanity (Libète, Egalité, ak Fratènite/Imanite) -- 2. U.S. Invasion (Envazyon Etazini) -- 3. Haitians—Rise and Defend! (Ayisien(ne)—Leve epi defann!) -- 4. Péralte Leads (Péralte kòm Lidè) -- 5. Violence (Vyolans) -- 6. We’re Still Fighting (Nou Toujou ap Goumen) -- 7. Second Revolution (Dezyèm Revolisyon) -- 8. Péralte Resurrected (Péralte Resisite) -- 9. Liberation with Péralte (Liberasyon ak Péralte) -- 10. Péralte Will Never Die; He Remains Alive in Popular Memory (Péralte p’ap janm mouri; li rete vivan nan memwa popilè) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838223803321 |
Alexis Yveline | ||
New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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THe lost City of the monkey God : a true story. / / Douglas Preston |
Autore | Preston Douglas J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Grand Central Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 972.85 |
Soggetto topico |
Extinct cities - Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Cities and towns, Ancient - Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Indians of Central America - Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) - Antiquities HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY / Latin America / Central America HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries |
ISBN |
1-4555-4002-1
1-4555-4015-3 |
Classificazione | HIS038000HIS051000HIS007000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Gates of Hell -- Somewhere in the Americas -- The Devil Had Killed Him -- A Land of Cruel Jungles -- One of the Few Remaining Mysteries -- The Heart of Darkness -- The Fish That Swallowed the Whale -- Lasers in the Jungle -- Something Nobody Had Done -- The Most Dangerous Place on the Planet -- Uncharted Territory -- No Coincidences -- Fer-de-Lance -- Don't Pick the Flowers -- Human Hands -- "I'm Going Down" -- A Bewitchment Place -- Quagmire -- Controversy -- The Cave of the Glowing Skulls -- The Symbol of Death -- They Came to Wither the Flowers -- White Leprosy -- The National Institutes of Health -- An Isolated Species -- La Ciudad del Jaguar -- We Are Orphans. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910160307903321 |
Preston Douglas J. | ||
New York : , : Grand Central Publishing, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Routledge handbook to the history and society of the Americas / / edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Michael Stewart Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke and Mario Rufer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; N.Y., NY : , : Routledge, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (509 pages) |
Disciplina | 970 |
Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY / North America POLITICAL SCIENCE / General |
ISBN |
1-351-13869-3
1-351-13870-7 1-351-13868-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Part 1. History and society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th century -- Introduction: History and society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th century. The bigger picture / Josef Raab, Stefan Rinke and Alice Nash -- America / Stefan Rinke -- Atlantic / Ernesto Mercado Montero -- Colonial economies / Juan Marchena Fernández -- Colonial rule / Eduardo Cavieres -- Columbian exchange / Charles C. Mann -- Conquest and colonization / Christoph Strobel -- Enlightenment / Thomas O. Beebee -- Gender / María Amelia Viteri and Cristina Yépez Arroyo -- Independence movements / Roberto Breña -- Indigenous peoples / Alice Nash -- Inter-ethnic relations / Izaskun Álvarez Cuartero -- Language / Lilia Rebeca Rodríguez Torres and María del Carmen de la Peza -- Memorial culture / Scott Manning Stevens -- Migration / Silke Hensel -- Nation and state building / Stefan Rinke and Mirko Petersen -- Religion and missionizing / Claude Gélinas -- Slavery / Christine Hatzky -- Unfree labor / Christine Hatzky --
Part 2. History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st century -- Introduction: History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st century. Inter-American thresholds and critical key concepts / Olaf Kaltmeier, Michael Stewart Foley, and Mario Rufer -- Alter-globalization / Guiomar Rovira -- Biopolitics / Rodrigo Parrini and Nattie Goluvob -- Consumerism / Gustavo Blázquez -- Education / Stefan Peters and Adriana Serrudo -- Ethnicity / Christian Büschges -- Family / Cornelia Giebeler -- Freedom / Donovan Hernández -- Gender identities / Karina Bidaseca and Julia Roth -- Health / Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde -- Hybridity, mestizaje, creolité / Afef Benessaieh -- Indigeneity / Olaf Kaltmeier -- Intersectionality / Julia Roth -- Latinidad / Luz Angélica Kirschner -- Memory politics / Ludmila Catela Da Silva and Michael Stewart Foley -- Modernization / Frederik Schulze -- Multiculturalism / Eduardo Restrepo -- Popular / Pablo Alabarces -- Postcolonialism and decoloniality / Mario Rufer -- Race / Peter Wade -- Religious beliefs / Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer -- Social movements / León Enrique Ávila Romero -- Socialism / Marc Becker -- Subcultures / Michael Stewart Foley and María del Carmen de la Peza -- Transnational migration / Gilberto Rescher -- Urbanization / Lawrence A. Herzog -- Whiteness / María Teresa Garzón Martínez. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793548703321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; N.Y., NY : , : Routledge, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Routledge handbook to the history and society of the Americas / / edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Michael Stewart Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke and Mario Rufer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; N.Y., NY : , : Routledge, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (509 pages) |
Disciplina | 970 |
Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY / North America POLITICAL SCIENCE / General |
ISBN |
1-351-13869-3
1-351-13870-7 1-351-13868-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Part 1. History and society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th century -- Introduction: History and society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th century. The bigger picture / Josef Raab, Stefan Rinke and Alice Nash -- America / Stefan Rinke -- Atlantic / Ernesto Mercado Montero -- Colonial economies / Juan Marchena Fernández -- Colonial rule / Eduardo Cavieres -- Columbian exchange / Charles C. Mann -- Conquest and colonization / Christoph Strobel -- Enlightenment / Thomas O. Beebee -- Gender / María Amelia Viteri and Cristina Yépez Arroyo -- Independence movements / Roberto Breña -- Indigenous peoples / Alice Nash -- Inter-ethnic relations / Izaskun Álvarez Cuartero -- Language / Lilia Rebeca Rodríguez Torres and María del Carmen de la Peza -- Memorial culture / Scott Manning Stevens -- Migration / Silke Hensel -- Nation and state building / Stefan Rinke and Mirko Petersen -- Religion and missionizing / Claude Gélinas -- Slavery / Christine Hatzky -- Unfree labor / Christine Hatzky --
Part 2. History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st century -- Introduction: History and society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st century. Inter-American thresholds and critical key concepts / Olaf Kaltmeier, Michael Stewart Foley, and Mario Rufer -- Alter-globalization / Guiomar Rovira -- Biopolitics / Rodrigo Parrini and Nattie Goluvob -- Consumerism / Gustavo Blázquez -- Education / Stefan Peters and Adriana Serrudo -- Ethnicity / Christian Büschges -- Family / Cornelia Giebeler -- Freedom / Donovan Hernández -- Gender identities / Karina Bidaseca and Julia Roth -- Health / Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde -- Hybridity, mestizaje, creolité / Afef Benessaieh -- Indigeneity / Olaf Kaltmeier -- Intersectionality / Julia Roth -- Latinidad / Luz Angélica Kirschner -- Memory politics / Ludmila Catela Da Silva and Michael Stewart Foley -- Modernization / Frederik Schulze -- Multiculturalism / Eduardo Restrepo -- Popular / Pablo Alabarces -- Postcolonialism and decoloniality / Mario Rufer -- Race / Peter Wade -- Religious beliefs / Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer -- Social movements / León Enrique Ávila Romero -- Socialism / Marc Becker -- Subcultures / Michael Stewart Foley and María del Carmen de la Peza -- Transnational migration / Gilberto Rescher -- Urbanization / Lawrence A. Herzog -- Whiteness / María Teresa Garzón Martínez. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818215703321 |
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; N.Y., NY : , : Routledge, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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