River of Dark Dreams

River of Dark Dreams
Author: Walter Johnson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674074882

River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Cuban Confederate Colonel

Cuban Confederate Colonel
Author: Antonio Rafael De la Cova
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2003
Genre: Cuba
ISBN: 9781570034961

In doing so, de la Cova sheds new light on the connections between Southern and Cuban society, the workings of coastal defenses during the Civil War, and the vicissitudes of Reconstruction for a Cuban expatriate."--Jacket.

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns
Author: Janice E. Thomson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996-07-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 140082124X

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.

"Fear God and Walk Humbly"

Author: James Mallory
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 720
Release: 1997-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780817308322

Mallory's journal spans three major periods of the South's history - the boom years before the Civil War, the rise and collapse of the Confederacy, and the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War. Mallory's interests were varied and wide ranging, but weather and agriculture dominate his journal, for agriculture was his passion. A member of the Alabama Agricultural Society, he encouraged efforts to improve. His journal describes the vicissitudes of raising and marketing various crops and animals. Concerns with cotton, corn, wheat, other grains, livestock, orchards, unusual farming methods, fertilizers, and experiments all receive comment.

Cubans in the Confederacy

Cubans in the Confederacy
Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780786409761

The role of Cubans in the American Civil War is seldom appreciated. This work is the first to provide a close look at the often distinguished services they performed. Although Cubans are recorded in the rosters of both Union and Confederate forces, Cuban ties with the Confederacy were particularly strong, partly because Cuban patriots fighting for liberation from Spain tended to identify with the Southern cause as a revolutionary struggle. This work will focus on the biographies of three Cubans who served the Confederate army in the War Between the States. Darryl E. Brock offers a detailed portrait of Jose Agustin Quintero, who served as the South's most effective diplomat. Michel Wendell Stevens writes on Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, who rose to the rank of colonel and served some of the Confederacy's best-known generals. Finally, Richard Hall provides an intimate sketch of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a soldier and spy for the Confederacy who infiltrated (as a double agent) the operations of Northern spymaster Lafayette C. Baker.

Race to Revolution

Race to Revolution
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1583674462

The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the United States, both in terms of each nation’s internal political and economic development and in the interactions between the small Caribbean island and the Colossus of the North. Horne draws a direct link between the black experiences in two very different countries and follows that connection through changing periods of resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were crucial to Cuba’s initial independence, and the relative freedom they achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States, reinforcing radical politics within the black communities of both nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions that gave rise to the Cuban Revolution which, on New Years’ Day in 1959, shook the United States to its core. Based on extensive research in Havana, Madrid, London, and throughout the U.S., Race to Revolution delves deep into the historical record, bringing to life the experiences of slaves and slave traders, abolitionists and sailors, politicians and poor farmers. It illuminates the complex web of interaction and infl uence that shaped the lives of many generations as they struggled over questions of race, property, and political power in both Cuba and the United States.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-Keltie
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1550
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230270530

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1565
Release: 2016-12-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230270573

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.