Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+4466 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740503 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685067 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557873 Presents a history of the period during which the Eastern seaboard was a frontier between colonizing Europeans and Native Americans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1363774 From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbuss voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult--the Columbian Exchange--underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City-- where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1257273 Documents the cultural importance of Margaret Mitchells famous novel, discussing the writing process, reception by the publishing industry, numerous authorized and unauthorized tranlations, and the iconic film adapatation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1317582 A classic collection of primary source accounts covering the history of the United States, now in a new format, abridged, and brought up to the present day-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238975 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1151104 Presents Columbuss self-perception and personal history, as far as possible, in his own words. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057932 Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154804 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020716 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=954124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054300 A member of the Continental Congress, Silas Deane, was sent to France in 1776 to persuade the king to support the colonists in their struggle with Britain. He, playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and diplomat and sometime spy the Chevalier dEon were at the heart of a monumental power struggle between Britain and France, with the outcome of the War of American Independence hanging in the balance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=976738 Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day. Now historian John Ferling peers behind that image, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics, but a canny infighter--a master of persuasion, manipulation, and deniability. In the War of Independence, Washington used his skills to steer the Continental Army through crises that would have broken less determined men; he squeezed out rivals and defused dissent. Ending the war as a national hero, Washington allowed himself to be pressed into the presidency, guiding the nation with the same brilliantly maintained pose of selfless public interest. Ferling argues that not only was Washington one of Americas most adroit politicians--the proof of his genius is that he is no longer thought of as a politician at all.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024412 Presents a history of the agency, from its inception in 1945, to its role in the Cold War, to its controversial advisory position at the time of the Bush administrations search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, shortly before the invasion of 2003. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055871 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1012189 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185632 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=994727 In 1519, Hernn Corts arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. In Tenochtitln, the City of Dreams, Corts met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of a complex and sophisticated civilization with fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Corts defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astonishing military campaigns ever waged. Sometimes outnumbered thousands-to-one, Corts repeatedly beat seemingly impossible odds. Journalist Levy meticulously researches the mix of cunning, courage, brutality, superstition, and finally disease that enabled Corts and his men to survive.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115065 Where did Mayan knowledge come from? Whats behind their mysterious disappearance? And, were the Mayans the first victims of a savage conquest? These are some of the gripping questions that this book will try to answer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692331 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=463483 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=417421 This true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of todays southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, he describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across the unmapped land. Cabeza de Vacas account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=449430 Was Christopher Columbus an inspired explorer and brilliant navigator whose daring voyages proved the naysayers wrong - or was he a misinformed dreamer who succeeded by luck and never understood the true nature of his discovery? Was he a man of his time whose behavior should not be judged by modern standards - or a ruthless conquistador whose brutality and greed shocked even some of his contemporaries and laid the groundwork for genocide? In Columbus in the Americas, the author of Blue Highways and River-Horse creates a finely detailed portrait of the most famous and controversial explorer in history. Quoting liberally from what remains of Columbuss logs and other firsthand accounts, William Least Heat-Moon takes you aboard the three tiny vessels as they set out on the voyage that would change the world forever. He recreates the anxiety of their first Atlantic crossing, explains the errors in Columbuss belief that he could reach the Far East by sailing west, and gives detailed accounts of his dealings with the Tainos, the first Native Americans Columbus met.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=450667 Perhaps there has never been a survivor quite like Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize La Florida in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six years of captivity among native peoples, and an arduous, overland journey in which he and the three other remaining survivors of the original expedition walked some 1,500 miles from the central Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then another 1,300 miles to Mexico City.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=404797 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=445425 Featuring superb full-color photographs and specially commissioned maps, the Historical Atlas of Ancient America describes in vivid detail the religions, politics, economics, and agricultural systems of the wealthy and highly influential Aztec and Mayan civilizations, along with those of their predecessors, the Olmec and Toltec. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=354746 Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous peoples of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest. Beginning with a brief history of Native Americans, Larry J. Zimmerman and Brian Leigh Molyneaux explore individual culture areas, region by region. They discuss Native American spiritual observances, including personal and communal rituals, initiation rites, and curing ceremonies. Through descriptions of the powwow, rites of passage, plant rituals, oral storytelling, dreams, the ghost dance, and the drum, the authors provide a sensitive introduction to Native American spiritual traditions and examine issues that face Native Americans today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=351483 John L. Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement - Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto. Drawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of Harpers, where DeVoto was a columnist for years, Thomas places the two men in a vibrant American tradition, supporters of a national commons owned and cared for by all its citizens. The popular works of Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto remain in print decades after they were first published, and, as Thomas makes clear in this illuminating account, their concern for the western environment continues to resonate today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=352011 Big Chief Elizabeth is the story of the extraordinary attempts by English adventurers to claim, divide, and colonize what would be the biggest jewel in Queen Elizabeths crown: North America. From Richard Hores 1636 journey to the ill-fated Sir Humfrey Gilberts attempt, to Sir Walter Raleghs extravant expeditions to Roanoke Island and Jamestown, which led to the first permanent English settlements in America, Milton tells a tale of startling greed, ruthless ambition, terrible hardship, and horrific wars between settlers and indigenous peoples. For almost twenty years the fate of Raleghs colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain Powhatan - father of Pocahontas - who vowed to drive the English out of America, though Pocahontas herself made valiant attempts to thwart the massacre of settlers. While Raleghs savage March had played a pivotal role in establishing the first English settlement in America, he had also unwittingly contributed to one of the earliest chapters in the decimation of the Native American population.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277251 Devoted exclusively to the wars and military conflicts in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from the days of early European exploration to the present, this timely reference surveys in great detail: thousands of specific battles, conflicts between European and native peoples, wars between European powers, wars of independence throughout the New World civil wars, and wars between nations of the Americas. Organized chronologically according to conflict, each section begins with a brief historical overview, followed by chronological entries describing key military and political events and their significance. Maps highlighting place names and political boundaries as well as numerous illustrations help place battles and events in geographical and historical perspective.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=37041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=795670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=38620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=426527