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El camino indígena que unió las etnias muiscas de las tierras planas andinas de Colombia y las etnias que habitaron las montañas del oriente de Colombia y las vegas de los ríos caudalosos que desembocan en el mar Atlántico, por el cual arribaron los españoles al interior del país, bautizado luego como camino real, fue la vena comunicante antes y después del cubrimiento de los peninsulares españoles. El autor con ancestros muiscas nació en...
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Pam nad ydym yn deall y ddadl gwn sy'n ymfflamychu barn America? Mae'r hanesydd Jensen Cox yn esbonio ei darddiad a'i ddigwyddiadau cyfredol i ni. Bob blwyddyn, mae llofruddiaethau torfol yn plymio'r Unol Daleithiau i arswyd. Ac eto, mae'r rhyddid i fod yn arfog yn hawl sylfaenol, yn seiliedig ar yr ail welliant sacrosanct i'r Cyfansoddiad, a gefnogir gan fwyafrif o Americanwyr: y Gymdeithas Reifflau Genedlaethol bwerus, mamau heddychlon, helwyr,...
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details. An important and dark time in Black – and American – history,...
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Paradigm Shift is the story of the rise and fall of the American Empire as viewed within a psychosocial context. After eight years of Bush and Cheney, we were almost ready to turn our Titanic around before it hit the Iceberg from Wasilla. These are the rumors and legends about Sarah Palin that the mainstream media do not want you to know about their cash cow.
6) Happy 80th Birthday Grandpa!: The Most Interesting & Fun Facts About the Year You Were Born (1944
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Take an interesting trip through 1944, a year that changed history and will be remembered for a long time. This book is a rich tapestry of stories, facts, and thoughts from a very important time in history: the middle of World War II. Explore the turning points, technological advances, and important people who had a big impact on this time of change, from the front lines to the home front. This story brings to life the essence of a time when a lot...
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From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences represented...
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Let's go back in time and look at the big events and changes in culture that made this year so important. This interesting book takes you on a trip through history as it talks about the Civil Rights Movement and its important achievements, like getting the Civil Rights Act passed. Watch the British Invasion and the rise of bands like The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. They changed popular music forever. Take a deep dive into the exciting...
9) God Carlos
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God Carlos transports us to a voyage aboard the Santa Inez, a Spanish sailing vessel bound for the newly discovered West Indies with a fortune-seeking band of ragtag sailors. She is an unusual explorer for her day, carrying no provisions for the settlers, no seed for planting crops, manned by vain, arrogant men looking for gold in Jamaica. Expecting to make landfall in paradise after over a month at sea, the crew of the Santa Inez instead find themselves...
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Warrior Woman is the story of Lozen, sister of the famous Apache warrior Victorio, and warrior in her own right. Hers is a story little discussed in Native American history books. Instead, much of what is known of her has been passed down through generations via stories and legends.
For example, it is said that she was embued with supernatural powers, given to her by the gods. She would lift her arms to the sky and place her palms against the wind,...
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Cuenta la leyenda qué, el atardecer del jueves 12 de septiembre del año de Nuestro Señor de 1720, arribó a la fundación franciscana de la bucólica villa de Tlalnepantla, un hombre proveniente de Ourense, arribó escapando de un obscuro pasado que nadie conocía en estas tierras, uno del que había huido durante largo tiempo y qué, sin embargo, lo reencontraría en las tierras de Xólotl con su destino ya escrito en la palma de la mano. Fray...
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In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how bound labor contributed to the establishment and subsequent control of imperial outposts in colonial North America. He examines the dynamic and multifaceted development of slavery in the colonial South and reconstructs the relationships among aspiring enslavers, natives, struggling...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from Boston Tea Party to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Boston Tea Party took place at Griffin's Wharf on December 16, 1773. Furious with Britain for "taxation without representation," the Americans dropped 342 British East India Company tea boxes into the bay. It was the first great colony rebellion against British control. It proved to Great Britain...
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