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Puerto Rico
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 112.95This book uses historical and interview data to trace the development of Puerto Rican identity in the 20th century. It analyzes how and why Puerto Ricans have maintained a clear sense of distinctiveness in the face of direct and indirect pressures on their identity. After gaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States undertook... more...
Dominican Republic Travel Complete Profile
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 15.20Whether planning your own trip to Dominican Republic, or planning someone elses, youll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel reportboth of our Travel and Points of Interest reports rolled into one. more...
Nobody Turn Me Around
Beacon Press 2010; US$ 23.95On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” oration. And just blocks away, President Kennedy and Congress skirmished over landmark civil rights legislation. As Charles... more...
An Example for All the Land
The University of North Carolina Press 2010; US$ 25.95In An Example for All the Land , Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battleground in the American struggle over equality. After slavery's... more...
Washington Information Directory 2011-2012
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2011; US$ 232.50Washington Information Directory (WID) is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. WID provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. more...
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 14.50"Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kupperman is one of the leading scholars of the... more...
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 45.00To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,” France's most valuable overseas colony, the largest exporter of tropical products in the world, and the United... more...
Washington DC's Most Wanted
Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 6.95America's capital gets the Most Wanted treatment more...
A Free Man of Color and His Hotel
Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 27.50The amazing story of a nineteenth-century businessman, Reconstruction, and the Constitution more...
Peaceful Places: Washington, D.C.
Menasha Ridge Press 2012; US$ 13.95Native Washingtonians Judy Colbert and Denis Collins have grown up and lived amid some of the most exciting sightseeing in the country--in their own grand urban backyard. They share this knowledge in Peaceful Places: Washington, DC . Now readers can enjoy the sights without being elbow-to-elbow with visitors from around the country and the world.... more...









