america

Surveys the history of New World explorations from the Viking age to the eighteenth century, including the latest views on pre-Columbian explorations.

Includes more than 360 interpretative essays on works of twentieth-century fiction published in the United States and Latin America.

Text with maps, photographs, and reconstruction drawings provide an account of the first Americans.

Discusses Chinese emigration to America and the contribution of the Chinese to American life, emphasizing their unique cultural characteristics.

Discusses his and Vespucci's voyages to the Americas, ships, navigation techniques, and Spanish and Portuguese conquests.

Following a student who is helping make a documentary film, this engaging title takes readers on a journey of US history from its beginnings to 1620, a period that the three worlds of Europe, North America, and Africa meet.

An account of Columbus's four transatlantic voyages.

Presents a study of the history of Spanish influence in America and describes their first encounter with native peoples of the Americas.

Identifies and explains the similarities and differences between the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, describing their process of colonization, colonial societies, distinctive styles of imperial government, and independence movements against them.

Presents a novel based upon actual events described in the journals of Christopher Columbus that features a young Basque adventurer named Domingo Luca, who is asked to join Columbus on his journey to the new world.