How nineteenth-century media makers helped shape national opinion

Excerpt from Spain in America: A History of the Conquests, Dominion and Overthrow of Spain in the New World; Ending With the Spanish-American War About 336 B. There was an embassy from the Iberians to Alexander the Great, and the learned Greeks began to study the geography of the border land of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California natives has made him a candidate for sainthood; John Eliot, the renowned Puritan missionary to Massachusetts Indians; Pierre-Jean De Smet, the Jesuit missioner to the Indians of the Midwest; and Henry Benjamin Whipple, who engineered the U.S. government's theft of the Black Hills from the Sioux.

Secret societies conspiring to control the world & kill millions of people. The Federal Reserve, a private corporation that makes money out of thin air. The CIA dealing drugs. The FBI assassinating U.S. citizens. 21 million "American Negroes" in relocation camps. George Bush & his daddy having connections to Nazi Germany. Merging the U.S.A. & the U.S.S.R. Some might tell you that such things are not possible in America. To this Terrance Jackson says, "It's time to be introduced to the REAL WORLD!" Learn why the "his-story" they teach you in school is propaganda & not education. This book examines who really controls the world & covers such topics as: the Anglo-American Establishment, the Protocols of Zion, FEMA, Chemical-Biological Warfare, AIDS, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, & COINTELPRO. The unique twist of this book is its Afrocentric perspective & topics such as the Ancient African Constitution, the empire of Ghana, Sundiata Keita, the bitter enemy of the Black man, & the assassination of Patrice Lumumba are also covered. If you are the least bit curious about the future of the people of the world then this is one book you do not want to be without.

Finalist, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship A stunning work of popular history—the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom. Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions. Author Jori Lewis reveals how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the territories they controlled. Delving deep into West African and European archives, Lewis recreates a world on the coast of Africa that is breathtakingly real and unlike anything modern readers have experienced. Slaves for Peanuts is told through the eyes of a set of richly detailed characters—from an African-born French missionary harboring runaway slaves, to the leader of a Wolof state navigating the politics of French imperialism—who challenge our most basic assumptions of the motives and people who supported human bondage. At a time when Americans are grappling with the enduring consequences of slavery, here is a new and revealing chapter in its global history.

A noted historian analyzes Yasser Arafat’s role in destabilizing the Middle East in a book praised as “eye-opening and exhaustively researched” (New York Post). Offering the first comprehensive account of the collapse of the most promising peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, historian Efraim Karsh details Arafat’s efforts since the historic Oslo Accords in building an extensive terrorist infrastructure, his failure to disarm the extremist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and the Palestinian Authority’s systematic efforts to indoctrinate hate and contempt for the Israeli people through rumor and religious zealotry. Arafat has irrevocably altered the Middle East’s political landscape, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict will always be Arafat’s war.