Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics write by Tatiana Seijas. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common challenges facing both countries in their early decades of independence by exploring the creation of coin money. The remarkable story begins when both countries chose the Spanish piece of eight (silver coin) as their monetary standard. The authors examine how each nation instituted its own currency, designed coins to represent its national ideals, and then spent decades trying to establish the legitimacy of its money. Readers learn about the creation and circulation of money through the stories of a banker in Philadelphia, a Mexican general in Texas, a surveyor in Sonora, and others. The focus on individuals provides an engaging window into the economic history of Mexico and the United States. Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries’ efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical trajectories.
Gold Coins of the Independent Spanish American Republics
Gold Coins of the Independent Spanish American Republics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gold Coins of the Independent Spanish American Republics write by Hans M F. Schulman. This book was released on 1966*. Gold Coins of the Independent Spanish American Republics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The War Went On
The War Went On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War Went On write by Brian Matthew Jordan. This book was released on 2020-04-01. The War Went On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential character of Civil War veteranhood remain unanswered. Moreover, because work on veterans has often proceeded from a preoccupation with cultural memory, the Civil War’s ex-soldiers have typically been analyzed as either symbols or producers of texts. In The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, fifteen of the field’s top scholars provide a more nuanced and intimate look at the lives and experiences of these former soldiers. Essays in this collection approach Civil War veterans from oblique angles, including theater, political, and disability history, as well as borderlands and memory studies. Contributors examine the lives of Union and Confederate veterans, African American veterans, former prisoners of war, amputees, and ex-guerrilla fighters. They also consider postwar political elections, veterans’ business dealings, and even literary contests between onetime enemies and among former comrades.
South to Freedom
South to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South to Freedom write by Alice L Baumgartner. This book was released on 2020-11-10. South to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Afro-Latin American Studies
Afro-Latin American Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afro-Latin American Studies write by Alejandro de la Fuente. This book was released on 2018-04-26. Afro-Latin American Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field.
