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“john horace parry”

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  • Spanish Seaborne Empire

    by John Horace Parry ...
    The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and "liberators."Parry presents a broad ... Read more

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  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    by Bartolome Las Casas ...
    Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass ... Read more

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  • War Against All Puerto Ricans

    Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

    by Nelson A Denis ...
    The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island.**"A pointed, relentless chronicle of a despicable part of past American foreign policy." -**Kirkus ReviewsIn 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United ... Read more

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  • George Orwell: English Rebel

    English Rebel

    by Robert Colls ...
    An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the ... Read more

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  • Masters of War

    Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years

    by Clara Nieto ...
    Translated by Chris Brandt ...
    In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for the need to evaluate the alarming precedent set in Latin America ... Read more

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  • The Night of the Rambler

    A Novel

    by Montague Kobbé ...
    This tale of a little-known revolt in the Caribbean is "part literary thriller, part revolutionary study, part epic historical narrative" (Joe Meno, author of The Boy Detective Fails).A sympathetic and often humorous account of an obscure episode in the history of the remote island of Anguilla, in the northeast Caribbean, The Night of the Rambler revolves around a haphazard attempt by a dozen or ... Read more

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  • The Age of Garvey

    How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

    by Adam Ewing ...
    Series series America in the World
    A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an ... Read more

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  • Haiti and the Uses of America

    Post-U.S. Occupation Promises

    by Chantalle F. Verna ...
    Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries.In the years following the U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915-1934), Haitian politicians and professionals with a ... Read more

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  • Francisco Pizarro

    Conquistador of the Attack on Peru

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Francisco Pizarro in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Francisco Pizarro. In the 16th century, much of the Americas was as of yet undiscovered by European explorers. After two expensive failed attempts and an agreement signed with the Spanish monarchy, Pizarro finally set ... Read more

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  • On the Way Back

    by Montague Kobbé ...
    A British businessman woos a Caribbean woman—and her disapproving family—in this "engrossing novel" ( Insight).Nathaniel Jones, a middle-aged businessman from England, travels to the Caribbean island of Anguilla to spend a fortnight on holiday—and finds himself captivated by a brilliant and beautiful member of the local community, Sheila Rawlingson. After a secret, intense hundred-day courtship, ... Read more

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  • The English American

    A New Survey of the West Indies, 1648

    by Thomas Gage ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1928, this exploration of the accounts of missionary Thomas Gage, edited by A.P.Newton, accounts the arduous journey around the Americas that Thomas Gage took to spread Christian teaching. ... Read more

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  • Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration

    Pro-European Groups and the French, Belgian and British Empires (1947–1957)

    by Laura Kottos ...
    Series Book 97 - Euroclio
    The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and 1957. It argues that the association of the overseas territories into the European Economic Community ... Read more

    $52.99 USD