Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2011. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781416591054Author S C...

In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the...

The Times' Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of the Year AwardNominated for the 2017 PEN...

Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the...

Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry - the men...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384710Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (J. Sando Western History) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780425247853Author Chester NezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley...

In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples' lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to...

Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,...

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911469332Author George Franklin FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alan C Hood & CompanyPublisher Alan C Hood & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807057834Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European adventurers who claimed to have "discovered" them? While in some parts of the region they were decimated within a generation, others, such as the Kalinagos of Dominica...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511038Author Kathleen DuValFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America & Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec In a sumptuous new large-format edition, this wide-ranging reference book covers almost 3000 years of history,...

Comprehensive photographic study of surviving Battle of Little Big Horn artifacts with narratives authenticating each item. This book is a first-of-a-kind comprehensive, photographic essay regarding surviving artifacts of Custer and the Battle of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196090Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

The acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history's greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurer's death-defying navigation of the Amazon River. In 1541, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his lieutenant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Ninigret (c. 1600-1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is now Rhode Island from the mid-1630s through the mid-1670s. For Ninigret and his contemporaries, Indian Country and New England were multipolar political worlds shaped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806138855Author Jerome a GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 408g

Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870044601Author Gregory F. MichnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013076Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

National Bestseller Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History * Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction * Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize Named a best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275697Author Gisele DiAzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

There have been many Mexicos: the country of varied terrain, of Amerindian heritage, of the Spanish Conquest, of the Revolution, and of the modern era of elections and the rule of bankers. Mexico was forged in the fires of successive civilizations, and...

For Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era, completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers. Here Ellis, countering popular histories that...

In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the...

AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Albert J. Beveridge Award (AHA).Book InformationISBN 9780143116219Author Karl JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717153Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423657989Author Earnie LaPointeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419655517Author Kenneth Bradby JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...