Author: Richardson HardyPublisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The History and Adventures of the Cuban Expedition, from the First Movements Down to the Dispersion of the Army at Key West, and the Arrest of General Lopez, Also
Author: Richardson HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Lopez Expeditions to Cuba 1848-1851 ...
Author: Robert Granville CaldwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Cuba
Author: Gonzalo de QuesadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
Cuba
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair
Author: Paul FoosPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807854051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism.
Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
List of Books Relating to Cuba
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
List of Books Relating to Cuba (including References to Collected Works and Periodicals).
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
A Secret Society History of the Civil War
Author: Mark A. LausePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European revolutions of 1848. Lause traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, the most conspicuous being the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. Lause profiles the key leaders of these organizations, with special focus on George Lippard, Hugh Forbes, and George Washington Lafayette Bickley. Antebellum secret societies ranged politically from those with progressive or even revolutionary agendas to those that pursued conservative or oppressive goals. This book shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions in the United States. Lause's research indicates that the pervasive influence of secret societies may have played a part in key events such as the Freesoil movement, the beginning of the Republican party, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860-1861. This exceptional study encompasses both white and African American secret society involvement, revealing the black fraternal experience in antebellum America as well as the clandestine operations that provided assistance to escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Unraveling these pervasive and extensive networks of power and influence, A Secret Society History of the Civil War demonstrates that antebellum secret societies played a greater role in affecting Civil War-era politics than has been previously acknowledged.
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment
Author: John Patrick LearyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric imperialism of the nineteenth century yielded to the Cold War discourse of "underdevelopment." John Patrick Leary examines representations of uneven development in Latin America across a variety of genres and media, from canonical fiction and poetry to cinema, photography, journalism, popular song, travel narratives, and development theory. For the United States, Latin America has figured variously as good neighbor and insurgent threat, as its possible future and a remnant of its past. By illuminating the conventional ways in which Americans have imagined their place in the hemisphere, the author shows how the popular image of the United States as a modern, exceptional nation has been produced by a century of encounters that travelers, writers, radicals, filmmakers, and others have had with Latin America. Drawing on authors such as James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Ernest Hemingway, Leary argues that Latin America has figured in U.S. culture not just as an exotic "other" but as the familiar reflection of the United States’ own regional, racial, class, and political inequalities.