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  • Falklands Facts and Fallacies

    The Falkland Islands in History and International Law

    by Graham Pascoe, Peter Pepper ...
    Falklands Facts and Fallacies is a pioneer work and an essential contribution to an understanding of the history and legal status of the Falkland Islands. It presents abundant evidence from documents (some never printed before) in archives in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Montevideo, London, Cambridge, Stanley, Paris, Munich and Washington DC, and provides the facts to correct the fallacies and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • El Norte

    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    by Carrie Gibson ...
    A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Simón Bolívar

    A Life

    by John Lynch ...
    The "impeccably researched, uncommonly honest, and . . . very well written" biography of the nineteenth century Venezuelan military and political leader (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, New Republic).Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six South American countries from Spanish Imperial rule, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a statesman who led the governments of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    by Prof. J. H. Elliott FBA ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Brazil

    From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle

    by Gordon Kerr ...
    Series series Short History
    Host of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, the fifth largest country in the world is the perfect topic for the next title in the Short History seriesDiscovered by Portuguese sailor and explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral more than 500 years ago, Brazil's history since then has been turbulent, blighted by rebellion, cruelty, dictatorship, and poverty. But, it is also a vibrant, exciting, and ... Read more

    $13.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Western Africa and Cabo Verde, 1790S-1830S

    Symbiosis of Slave and Legitimate Trades

    by George E. Brooks ...
    Western Africa and Cabo Verde, 1790s-1830s; Symbiosis of Slave and Legitimate Trades addresses the collaboration of slave traders and shipmasters engaged in legitimate commerce. This monograph is the third volume of a trilogy treating the history of western Africa from the 11th to the 19th centuries. It follows Landlords and Strangers; Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Becoming Belize: A History of an Outpost of Empire Searching for Identity, 1528-1823

    by Mavis C. Campbell ...
    This study explores the early Spanish attempts to colonize present day Belize and identifies many of the problems Spain encountered. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Conflicts and Conspiracies

    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    by Kenneth Maxwell ...
    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Paisanos

    The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America

    by Tim Fanning ...
    The epic story of the forgotten Irish men and women who changed the face of Latin America forever.In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emigration and the Sea

    An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

    by Malyn Newitt ...
    Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under other rulers with their own Creole ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

  • Chocolate Islands

    Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

    by Catherine Higgs ...
    In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

    The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850

    by Gabriel Paquette ...
    As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD