Andean Tragedy
Andean Tragedy

Author: William F. Sater

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 080320759X

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The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes.

Historic Baton Rouge
Historic Baton Rouge

Author: Sylvia Frank Rodrigue

Publisher: Community Heritage

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781935377498

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"Commissioned by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana."

Colonial Chesapeake Society
Colonial Chesapeake Society

Author: Lois Green Carr

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-05-18

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1469600129

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Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century. Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how property was accumulated and by whom. At the same time, the essays encompass broader issues of early American history, including the transatlantic dimension of colonization, the establishment of communities, both religious and secular, the significance of regionalism, the causes and effects of social and economic diversification, and the participation of Indians and blacks in the formation of societies. Colonial Chesapeake Society consolidates current advances in social history and provokes new questions.