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Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in
Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the
official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and
the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoit
Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled
the history of the French language in "The Story of French"," " now
look at the roots and spread of modern Spanish. Full of surprises
and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining
personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, "The Story of
Spanish" is the first full biography of a language that shaped the
world we know, and the only global language with two names--Spanish
and Castilian.
The story starts when the ancient Phoenicians set their sights
on "The Land of the Rabbits," Spain's original name, which the
Romans pronounced as "Hispania." The Spanish language would pick up
bits of Germanic culture, a lot of Arabic, and even some French on
its way to taking modern form just as it was about to colonize a
New World. Through characters like Queen Isabella, Christopher
Columbus, Cervantes, and Goya, "The Story of Spanish" shows how
Spain's Golden Age, the Mexican Miracle, and the Latin American
Boom helped shape the destiny of the language. Other, more somber
episodes, also contributed, like the Spanish Inquisition, the
expulsion of Spain's Jews, the destruction of native cultures, the
political instability in Latin America, and the dictatorship of
Franco.
"The Story of Spanish" shows there is much more to Spanish than
tacos, flamenco, and bullfighting. It explains how the United
States developed its Hispanic personality from the time of the
Spanish conquistadors to Latin American immigration and
"telenovelas." It also makes clear how fundamentally Spanish many
American cultural artifacts and customs actually are, including the
dollar sign, barbecues, ranching, and cowboy culture. The authors
give us a passionate and intriguing chronicle of a vibrant language
that thrived through conquests and setbacks to become the tongue of
Pedro Almodovar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, of tango and ballroom
dancing, of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of
people throughout the world.
An exploration of the murder that occurred at Rocky Point Park in
Warwick, Rhode Island in 1893.
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THE UNPARALLELED HISTORY OF THE FALL OF OLD MEXICO Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its
new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of
wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel, or the "Animal King" putting the smallest woman in the
world and also terrifying animals on display. But the
thrill-seeking spectators little suspected that an assassin walked
the fairgrounds, waiting for President William McKinley to arrive.
In Margaret Creighton's hands, the result is "a persuasive case
that the fair was a microcosm of some momentous facets of the
United States, good and bad, at the onset of the American Century"
(Howard Schneider, Wall Street Journal).
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Scotlandville
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Rachel L Emanuel Phd, Ruby Jean Simms Phd, Charles Vincent Phd; Foreword by Mayor-President Melvin Holden
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Hudson River State Hospital
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Joseph Galante, Lynn Rightmyer, Hudson River State Hospital Nurses Alumni Association
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Coney Island is an iconic symbol of turn-of-the-century New York,
but many other amusement parks thrilled the residents of the five
boroughs. Strategically placed at the end of trolley lines,
railways, public beaches and waterways, these playgrounds for rich
and poor alike first appeared in 1767. From humble beginnings, they
developed into huge sites like Fort George, Manhattan's massive
amusement complex. Each park was influenced by the culture and
eclectic tastes of its owners and patrons--from the wooden coasters
at Staten Island's Midland Beach to beer gardens on Queens' North
Beach and fireworks blasting from the Bronx's Starlight Park.
However, as real estate became more valuable, these parks
disappeared. Rediscover the thrills of the past from the lost
amusement parks of New York City.
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World War II Rhode Island
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Christian McBurney, Brian L Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy, Maureen A. Taylor
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As one of the nation's oldest cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has
a tumultuous history filled with Revolutionary War beginnings,
religious persecution and centuries of debate among Ivy League
intelligentsia. It should come as no surprise that the city is also
home to spirits that are entangled with the past and now inhabit
the dormitories, local watering holes and even military structures
of the present. Discover the apparitions that frighten freshmen in
Harvard's Weld Hall, the Revolutionary War ghosts that haunt the
estates of Tory Row and the flapper who is said to roam the seats
of Somerville Theatre. Using careful research and firsthand
accounts, author Sam Baltrusis delves into ghastly tales of murder,
crime and the bizarre happenings in the early days of Cambridge to
uncover the truth behind some of the city's most historic haunts.
Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad
centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk
Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since
the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the
two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black
railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to
the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older
generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors
and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to
become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree
Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad
workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of
personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.
Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's
contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues,
instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked
the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin
American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of
Bolivia's transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and
natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of
Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used
revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase
infrastructure development in South America's poorest country. The
book advances chronologically from Bolivia's earliest petroleum
pioneers in the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil
into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and
environmental issues, and within development strategies by
different administrations. While Bolivia is best known for its tin
mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers
viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize
the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers
and toward an oil-powered future.
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Lawrence
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Virgil W. Dean
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