If You Were There in 1492
Title | If You Were There in 1492 PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Brenner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1998-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0689822413 |
Chock-full of little-known facts and written with you-are-there immediacy, this volume explores everyday life in Spain at the end of the 15th century.
If You Were There In 1492
Title | If You Were There In 1492 PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Brenner |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1991-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780605006461 |
Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez
Title | Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
In 1492
Title | In 1492 PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Marzollo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780590444149 |
Rhyming text describes Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.
If You Were There in 1776
Title | If You Were There in 1776 PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Brenner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1994-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0027123227 |
Looks at 18th century colonial life with an emphasis given to how children lived on a New England farm, a Southern plantation, and the frontier.
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Title | The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward G. Gray |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781571812100 |
When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.
A People's History of the United States
Title | A People's History of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Zinn |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1999-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780060194482 |
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress