Barefoot Conquistador

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822575175
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barefoot Conquistador written by Diana Childress and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles Cabeza de Vaca's journey to the New World in 1527, describing the disasters of the expedition and his seven-year stay among the Indians, first as a captive, then as a trader and healer.

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590784921
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Texas Trail of Cabeza de Vaca written by Peter Lourie and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1527, the conquistador Cabeza de Vaca set sail for the Spanish territory of La Florida. His aim was to explore and colonize an unknown land that stretched from present-day Florida to Texas.

Author : Mark A. Hernández
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756454
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figural Conquistadors written by Mark A. Hernández and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He demonstrates how these novelists use major and marginal figures to reflect upon the ways that institutional powers invoke episodes from the discovery and conquest to legitimate the present, and also to critique the recent historical past, especially in the case of Uruguay and Argentina, which endured military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s."--Jacket.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
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Download or read book Federal Communications Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sylvia A. Johnson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1467703826
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Conquest of Mexico, 2nd Edition written by Sylvia A. Johnson and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the conquest of one city change the world? In 1519, two powerful empires - Spain and Mexica (Aztec) - were hungry for expansion in central Mexico. Led by emperor Motecuzoma II, the Mexica people had subdued their native enemies and now controlled a sprawling territory with the great city of Tenochtitlán at the center. Then the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés led an attack on the Mexica empire. Although the Spaniards had horses and guns, both unknown in the Americas, the Mexica outnumbered them five hundred to one. The Spaniards had no chance of success without the help of native allies unhappy with Mexica rule. What followed was a desperate war that lasted two years, cost thousands of lives, and left Tenochtitlán in ruins. In 1521 Cortés declared Mexico a colony of New Spain. In so doing, he laid the groundwork for the expansion of European power throughout the Americas and changed the world forever. The Spanish conquest of Mexico is one of world history’s pivotal moments.

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761372733
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand written by Diana Childress and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We want to live, we do not want to face persecution for expressing our political opinion; as women we don’t want to walk on the street with the constant horror that we could be intimidated for showing an inch of hair.” —Narges Kalhor, a young Iranian filmmaker, October 2009 On June 12, 2005, hundreds of women gathered outside Tehran University in Tehran, Iran. These women were protesting an issue that Iranian women have battled for more than one hundred years: gender inequality. Living in a conservative Muslim culture, Iranian women are subjected to discriminatory laws that serve the male-dominated society. In public, Iranian women must not be seen with men not related to them, and they must wear clothing completing covering their body and their hair. Many laws punish women even more harshly. If a woman is caught committing adultery, she can be sentenced to death by stoning. Yet men are free to have many wives and even enter temporary marriages. In the 1900s, Iranian women began protesting unjust laws and fighting for equality. For a time, under monarchs wishing to modernize, Iran became more lenient. Women began dressing as they wished, mixing socially with men, and working outside their homes. But after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, harsh punishments for moral offenses again became law. Women in professional occupations lost their jobs, and gender separation was enforced in public places. Iranian women continue to struggle against an oppressive regime, but they refuse to stop protesting. In this powerful story, we’ll learn how Iranian women have been punished and discriminated against by their patriarchal government, but yet they maintain their pursuit of equal rights. We’ll also see what their hopes and dreams are for the future.

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822586673
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augusto Pinochet's Chile written by Diana Childress and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how a Augusto Pinochet, a trusted military leader, became a ruthless dictator of Chile.

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822590964
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Omar Al-Bashir's Sudan written by Diana Childress and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the man who, in 1989, suspended the constitution and appointed himself head of state, prime minister, defense minister, and commander in chief of the army.

Author : Santiago Juan-Navarro
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137330
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book A Twice-told Tale written by Santiago Juan-Navarro and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

Author : Alex D. Krieger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779895
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book We Came Naked and Barefoot written by Alex D. Krieger and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Núñez 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. The story of Cabeza de Vaca has been told many times, beginning with his own account, Relación de los naufragios, which was included and amplified in Gonzalo Fernando de Oviedo y Váldez's Historia general de las Indias. Yet the route taken by Cabeza de Vaca and his companions remains the subject of enduring controversy. In this book, Alex D. Krieger correlates the accounts in these two primary sources with his own extensive knowledge of the geography, archaeology, and anthropology of southern Texas and northern Mexico to plot out stage by stage the most probable route of the 2,800-mile journey of Cabeza de Vaca. This book consists of several parts, foremost of which is the original English version of Alex Krieger's dissertation (edited by Margery Krieger), in which he traces the route of Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from the coast of Texas to Spanish settlements in western Mexico. This document is rich in information about the native groups, vegetation, geography, and material culture that the companions encountered. Thomas R. Hester's foreword and afterword set the 1955 dissertation in the context of more recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries, some of which have supported Krieger's plot of the journey. Margery Krieger's preface explains how she prepared her late husband's work for publication. Alex Krieger's original translations of the Cabeza de Vaca and Oviedo accounts round out the volume.