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Author: Ian Kenneth Steele
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780842027007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is a study of 16 individuals who lived during the colonial period of American history. These mini-biographies aim to highlight the exploits and actions of well-known and obscure individuals whose lives provide insight into the time in which they lived.
Author: Kenneth J. Andrien
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1442213000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial regimes and the Roman Catholic Church conflicted with the realities of daily living in the Americas. Now fully updated with new and revised essays, the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting, the stories bring to life issues of gender; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion. Written by leading scholars, the essays are specifically designed to be readable and interesting. Ideal for the Latin American history survey and for courses on colonial Latin American history, this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students. Contributions by: Rolena Adorno, Kenneth J. Andrien, Christiana Borchart de Moreno, Joan Bristol, Noble David Cook, Marcela Echeverri, Lyman L. Johnson, Mary Karasch, Alida C. Metcalf, Kenneth Mills, Muriel S. Nazzari, Ana María Presta, Susan E. Ramírez, Matthew Restall, Zeb Tortorici, Camilla Townsend, Ann Twinam, and Nancy E. van Deusen.
Author: Charles W. Calhoun
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1461644305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the nation's past in a way that examining only broad concepts and forces cannot. By including a wide range of people with respect to ethnicity, race, gender and geographic region, Prof. Calhoun has developed a text that highlights the diversity of the American experience.
Author: Eric Arnesen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780842029872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssembles biographical stories of famous leaders and unknown activists, covering the 18th century up to 1970. Relates to enslaved artisans, interracial unionism, immigration, Jewish radicalism and gender, the New Black Politics, reverse migration in World War II, the United Farm Workers Union, etc.
Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780842029766
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Author: Charles William Calhoun
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780842050319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of biographical sketches that profile the lives of ordinary Americans from colonial times through the Reconstruction.
Author: Richard E. Boyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780195125122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies during 300 years of Spanish rule, as well as the day-to-day lives of the colonies' inhabitants. Intended to complement textbooks such as Burkholder and Johnson's Colonial Latin America by presenting students with primary sources -- the raw materials on which the facts in other textbooks are based -- this reader strives to illustrate the impact of issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, culture and religion in the daily lives of both natives and colonists alike. The concerns, struggles and perspectives of the inhabitants of colonial Latin America are reflected in transcripts of civil and criminal court cases, administrative reviews, ecclesiastical investigations, Inquisition trials, wills, and letters the editors have included in this reader. Each document is prefaced by an introduction that places it in the social and political context of the period. The book also includes a glossary of terms and lists of suggested further readings. Most uniquely, the book offers helpful thematic cross-referencing sections and an index of themes which allow instructors to easily adapt the book to their courses and to assign readings according to the criteria of their own specific curriculums.
Author: Nancy Lee Rhoden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780842027489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.
Author: Michael A. Morrison
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780842028356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebellum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raising new questions from fresh perspectives, this volume contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamic forces that shaped the political, economic, social, and institutional changes that characterized the antebellum period. Moving beyond the older, outdated historical narratives of political institutions and the great men who shaped them, these biographies offer revealing insights on gender roles and relations, working-class experiences, race, and local economic change and its effect on society and politics. The voices of these ordinary individuals-African Americans, women, ethnic groups, and workers-have until recently often been silent in history texts. At the same time, these biographies also reveal the major themes that were part of the history of the early republic and antebellum era, including the politics of the Jacksonian era, the democratization of politics and society, party formation, market revolution, territorial expansion, the removal of Indians from their territory, religious freedom, and slavery. Accessible and fascinating, these biographies present a vivid picture of the richly varied character of American life in the first half of the nine-teenth century. This book is ideal for courses on the Early National period, U.S. history survey, and American social and cultural history.
Author: Nina Mjagkij
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780842029674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompelling and informative, the 14 diverse biographies of this book give a heightened understanding of the evolution of what it meant to be black and American through more than three centuries of U.S. history.
