Author: United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore)Publisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Lopez Expedition
Author: United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore)Publisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Lopez's Expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851
Author: Anderson Chenault QuisenberryPublisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799
Author: Maria F. WadePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292773862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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2003 – Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Winner – Texas Catholic Historical Society 2004 – Finalist: Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for Book Making the Most Significant Contribution to Knowledge – Texas Institute of Letters The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these key sources, Maria F. Wade has compiled this first comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial era. Much of the book deals with events that took place late in the seventeenth century, when Native groups and Europeans began to have their first sustained contact in the region. Wade identifies twenty-one Native groups, including the Jumano, who inhabited the Edwards Plateau at that time. She offers evidence that the groups had sophisticated social and cultural mechanisms, including extensive information networks, ladino cultural brokers, broad-based coalitions, and individuals with dual-ethnic status. She also tracks the eastern movement of Spanish colonizers into the Edwards Plateau region, explores the relationships among Native groups and between those groups and European colonizers, and develops a timeline that places isolated events and singular individuals within broad historical processes.
The Free Flag of Cuba
Author: Orville Vernon BurtonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807128343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the “Queen of the Confederacy,” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832–1899) was during her lifetime one of the most famous women in the South. Rumor was that in her youth she published a novel under a pseudonym. Recently discovered as The Free Flag of Cuba; or, The Martyrdom of Lopez: A Tale of the Liberating Expedition of 1851, her 1854 book is a romanticized account of the 1851 filibustering expedition to Cuba by Narciso López. With this new edition, Orville Vernon Burton and Georganne B. Burton resurrect Holcombe’s lost work and prove it to be a window on many pressing nineteenth-century issues. A not-so-subtle plea for U.S. support for Cuban independence from Spain, Holcombe’s novel vindicates López and his men—who were officially regarded as mercenaries—and declares them to be martyred heroes. The tale clearly reflects the values southern aristocratic women expected in men, even if preserving those values meant death and defeat—a harbinger of ardent support for the Confederacy by women like Lucy. With an illuminating introduction detailing the life of Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens and the historical context of her novel, this new edition of The Free Flag of Cuba is a welcome glimpse into the mind and value system of the southern belle who would become a southern icon.
Cubans in the Confederacy
Author: Phillip Thomas TuckerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786409761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The role of Cubans in the American Civil War is seldom appreciated. This work is the first to provide a close look at the often distinguished services they performed. Although Cubans are recorded in the rosters of both Union and Confederate forces, Cuban ties with the Confederacy were particularly strong, partly because Cuban patriots fighting for liberation from Spain tended to identify with the Southern cause as a revolutionary struggle. This work will focus on the biographies of three Cubans who served the Confederate army in the War Between the States. Darryl E. Brock offers a detailed portrait of Jose Agustin Quintero, who served as the South's most effective diplomat. Michel Wendell Stevens writes on Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, who rose to the rank of colonel and served some of the Confederacy's best-known generals. Finally, Richard Hall provides an intimate sketch of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a soldier and spy for the Confederacy who infiltrated (as a double agent) the operations of Northern spymaster Lafayette C. Baker.
By-ways of War
Author: James Jeffrey RochePublisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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To Cuba and Back. A Vacation Voyage
Author: Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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History of the United States
Author: James F. RhodesPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605207454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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This classic survey of one of the most dramatic eras in American history is most notable, perhaps, for the insight it offers into the mindset of the era itself. First published from 1893 through 1906, in the immediate aftermath of the events it covers, it was criticized even then for the author's clear bias-Rhodes believed it was a mistake to have given black men the right to vote after the Civil War. Today, it remains a fascinating look at the times through a prism that is itself of historical interest. This eight-volume set is a replica of the 1920 "new" edition. Volume I covers: [ slavery and the Constitution [ the Missouri Compromise [ the abolitionist movement [ Northern attitudes toward slavery [ the Fugitive Slave law [ Uncle Tom's Cabin [ the condition of slaves in the pre-Civil War era [ tensions with Spain [ and much more. After earning a fortune in iron, coal, and steel, American author JAMES FORD RHODES (1848-1927) retired to write about history, for which he won the Loubat Prize from the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1901) and the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1910). He is also the author of the single-volume *History of the Civil War, 1861-1865* (1918), available from Cosimo.
1850-1854
Author: James Ford RhodesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
Author: James Ford RhodesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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