Blood on the River
Blood on the River

Author: Marjoleine Kars

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1620974606

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Winner of the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of history, capturing both the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Cundill History Prize in 2021. A book with profound relevance for our own time, Blood on the River “fundamentally alters what we know about revolutionary change” according to Cundill Prize juror and NYU history professor Jennifer Morgan. Nearly two hundred sixty years ago, on Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice—in present-day Guyana—launched a rebellion that came amazingly close to succeeding. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one that almost changed the face of the Americas. Michael Ignatieff, chair of the Cundill Prize jury, declared that Blood on the River “tells a story so dramatic, so compelling that no reader will be able to put the book down.” Drawing on nine hundred interrogation transcripts collected by the Dutch when the rebellion collapsed, and which were subsequently buried in Dutch archives, historian Marjoleine Kars has constructed what Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Eric Foner calls “a gripping narrative that brings to life a forgotten world.”

Designing the Bayous
Designing the Bayous

Author: Martin Reuss

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2004-06-02

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781585443758

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Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River Basin is one of the most dynamic and critical environments in the country. It sustains the nation’s last cypress-tupelo wetland and provides a habitat for many species of animals. Endowed with natural gas and oil fields, the basin also supports a large commercial fisheries industry. Perhaps most crucial, it remains a primary component of the plan to control the Mississippi River and relieve flooding in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other communities in the lower river valley. The continuing health of the basin is a reflection not of nature, but of the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. With levee building and clearing in the nineteenth century and damming, dredging, and floodway construction in the twentieth, the basin was converted from a vast forested swamp into a designer wetland, where human aspirations and nature maintained a precarious equilibrium. Originally published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers primarily for internal distribution, this environmental and political history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an unflinching account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation. Martin Reuss provides a new preface to bring us up-to-date on the state of the basin, which remains both an engineering contrivance and natural wonder.

Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley
Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley

Author: Gavin K. Watt

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1550023764

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During the American Revolution, a massive (and ultimately failed) campaign led by Brigadier Barry St. Leger was launched from Canada into New York State.

Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley

Author: Benny J Andrés

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2014-11-22

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1623491975

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Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby Colorado River to irrigate a million acres on both sides of the border. The “conquest” of the environment was a central theme in the history of the valley. Colonization in the valley began with the construction of a sixty-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River in California through Mexico. Initially, Mexico held authority over water delivery until settlers persuaded Congress to construct the All-American Canal. Control over land and water formed the basis of commercial agriculture and in turn enabled growers to use the state to procure inexpensive, plentiful immigrant workers.

Divine Providence
Divine Providence

Author: Charles A. Camillo

Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780160914058

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Provides a transparent depiction of the 2011 flood within the Mississippi River and Tributaries footprint. It also provides necessary historical context for greater understanding of key features of the project. It is the story of prudent foresight, heroic actions, agonizing decisions, and extreme personal sacrifice. On cover and on dust jacket: Listening. Inspecting, Partnering, Engineering. This print product is also available in print paperback format with ISBN: 9780160933431 that can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-022-00364-9 Related products: Federal Reinsurance for Disasters can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-070-07346-2 Toward a Unified Military Response: Hurricane Sandy and the Dual Status Commander can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01147-8 Home Builder's Guide to Coastal Construction can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/064-000-00055-1 Floods resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature/natural-environment... Hurricanes, Typhoons & Tsunamis product collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature/natural-environment..."

Cry Liberty
Cry Liberty

Author: Peter Charles Hoffer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0195386612

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Provides an account of the slave revolt along South Carolina's Stono River on September 9, 1739, the only notable rebellion to occur in British North America between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution.