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This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America-the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as ...

This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. Latin American and Caribbean women played many key roles in the building of ...

This book is a comprehensive and revealing compilation of essays analyzing the varied dimensions of national identities and nationalisms across world regions and through time: revolutions to establish self-determination...wars to ...

This exhaustive work offers readers at multiple levels key insights into the military, political, social, cultural, and religious origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is one of the world's bloodiest, ...

This work is a fascinating guide to one of Latin America's most stable and progressive nations, examining the country's development, unique features, and the challenges Costa Ricans face in the ...

This book is a captivating and authoritative introduction to Brazil - its history, the evolution of its society and culture, and the staggering variety of peoples and landscapes within its ...

Written by the most prominent scholars in American Jewish history, this encyclopedia illuminates the varied experiences of America's Jews and their impact on American society and culture over three and ...

This fascinating work provides an enlightening guided tour of the island of Cuba's historical, political, economic, and sociocultural development from the pre-Columbian period to the present.Despite its small size, Cuba ...

This fascinating reference covers the weapons and armor used by warriors from the 4th to the 15th century and discusses how and why they evolved and changed over time. It ...

This engaging work uses key discoveries, events, people, techniques, and controversies to give the general reader a rich history of archaeology from its beginnings in the 16th century to the ...

This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. The extraordinary number ...

Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draught animals, the Incas forged one of the ...

unique, revealing look at the history and contemporary culture of the Philippine Islands and their multicultural and foreign-influenced facets. Across the centuries, the Philippine Islands have been treated as pawns ...

This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of ...

How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time? This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, ...

Thanks to powerful innovations in archaeology and other types of historical research, we now have a picture of everyday life in the Mayan empire that turned the long-accepted conventional wisdom ...

The remarkably accurate original translations of Native American myths from one of 19th-century America's foremost linguists. Ishi, the last Yana, died in 1916, working in San Francisco's Anthropological Museum as ...

Were the Celts of ancient and medieval mythology bloodthirsty headhunters or a spiritual people in tune with nature? Readers of this solid introduction to Celtic mythology will find the Celtic ...

The myth and legend of the North have given us indelible images-the world tree Yggdrasil and the rainbow bridge Bifrost Thor with his hammer the races of elves and dwarfs, ...

Learn the fascinating stories of the spies, warriors, commanders, and adversaries who have thwarted America for the past three centuries. Mangas Coloradas in the Old Southwest, Charles Cornwallis at Guilford ...