The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96 per cent of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad.
Latin America has long been strongly identified with the Roman Catholic Church. Yet the face of religion has changed in the region, as is evidenced by various landmarks that appear on the social and geographic landscape.
Focusing on Nicaragua after the 1990 Sandinista electoral defeat, this book is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary... Læs mere
A collection of twelve articles that explore various events in the history of witch-hunting and its demonization of women in American and American women's own use of witchcraft as a source of identity and strength, as well as the complicated relationship between the two.
Contains 39 writings on the history of reproduction in the US. This title stresses the centrality of gender in the history of reproduction and explores how and why reproduction - as a biological, social, and economic function - became a gender-assigned issue.
This text provides an examination of the cultural development of colonial Latin America, using readings, documents, historical analysis, and visual material, including photographs, drawings and paintings. The illustrations are intended to offer avenues to discussion topics.
Brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world.
Features stories told by ordinary women.
Presents the historical content needed to understand terrorism and America's responses to terrorist acts.
During the 1840s, the United States and England were in conflict over two unsettled territories along the undefined Canadian-American border. This title presents an account of the Maine and Oregon boundary treaties.
Suitable for the genealogist trying to locate families, the surveyor or attorney researching old deeds, or the historian seeking data on land settlement.
When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords.