Títulos en América

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines? Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture...

This is a provocative and panoramic survey of 2,000 years of English history. Johnson tells the story of how a small nation, living in a geographical backwater, developed unique economic and political institutions, expanded its territory, and saddled upon it the frame of a modern industrial...

La segunda oración de la Declaración de Independencia de Estados Unidos, escrita por Thomas Jefferson y revisada por Benjamin Franklin y John Adams, se convirtió en un credo que unió a peregrinos e inmigrantes en una sola nación. Para personas de tan diferentes orígenes y creencias, la frase resultó la definición última del bien común y del Sueño Americano.

Tricky Business Mixed stories of life as a San Francisco punk in the early 80’s. (Book Two of the Bag of Tricks Punk Trilogy) by Ruby Dee Philippa Continue to share the adventures of The Shits, Val, Sophie, Amy, Babs, Annie, Carla, Marco and other denizens of the punk scene as they spread out...

This audiobook read by Leon Nixon tells the remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a "glorious liberty document" that promises freedom to everyone The speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of...

At the end of the nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal glorified cubanas as “the most feminine and simple women in the world.” Ever since, the stereotype of Cuban femininity as chaste and dutiful has informed Cubans’ racial, social, and ethnic identity in the dominant American imagination, and this gendered and deracialized narrative has taken different forms and served various purposes throughout the Cuban diaspora.

In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D. C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups, and brutalized workforces. And how along the way they...

In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation.

A bold assessment of America’s populist turn—and a roadmap for rebuilding faith in liberal democracy In his final book, former Congressman Barney Frank offers a timely analysis of how liberals in the United States and other democracies lost support to xenophobic populism—and how they can...

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas are a misunderstood duo. History remembers them as antagonists, and for most of the years the two men knew each other, they were. In the 1830s, they debated politics around the stove in the back of Joshua Speed's store in Springfield, Illinois. In the 1850s...

From the leading political advisor and bestselling author, a revelatory account of how power is built and a blueprint for Democrats in 2026 and beyond. Supermajorities used to be the norm in American politics, yet today it seems unimaginable that our nation could break hard for one party or the...

"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR After...

Them Days is a quarterly magazine dedicated to documenting and preserving the old ways and early days of Labrador. Many thanks to the people who shared their time and memories, their names appear with their stories...

They called it the "Black Paradise" - a thriving Georgia community where former slaves had achieved the impossible. By 1912, Oscarville's residents owned more land, operated more successful businesses, and sent more children to college than most white communities in the South. Then, in a single...

En junio de 1985, una nota al margen en la revista Billboard agrupó mariachi, norteño, banda, grupero y corridos bajo una sola categoría: Música Regional.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.

En enero de cierto año, el historiador colombiano Roberto Alvarado llega al Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla respondiendo a una llamada de una colega: entre papeles sin catalogar de una donación de Extremadura, hay un manuscrito encuadernado en cuero con daños de humedad, sin autor en la primera página, sin número de acceso. Pero en las primeras líneas el autor se identifica con la brevedad del hombre que no espera necesitar presentación: yo, fray Bartolomé, obispo que fue de Chiapa. Bartolomé de las Casas tenía ochenta años cuando comenzó a escribir lo que pudo haber sido su obra final.

The colonial church was critical in training the founding generation on biblical principles for governing justly. When England governed unjustly over a long period of time with no intention of changing course, the leaders of the Continental Congress confronted their civil authority. After many years trying to reconcile, they saw no other option but to follow the biblical template for starting a new nation. They drafted the Declaration of Independence, and God blessed their effort.

Esta obra es una historia de Chile completa, escrita no sólo para los especialistas sino dedicada, especialmente, a las personas de otras disciplinas, de Chile y del exterior, que tengan interés en conocer las diversas etapas que han cumplido los sucesos históricos en nuestro país. Aunque...

An updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes—conquest...