Describes how recent archaeological research has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, revealing far older and more advanced cultures with a greater population than were previously thought to have existed.

DIVAn interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics./div “Diana Taylor’s ideas, carefully etched out here to great effect, provide a new vocabulary to understand the work that ...

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents.

"That new view, says Dillehay, will come mainly from South America - from South American sites and from freedom from the North American dogma that kept the Clovis theory dominant for so many years.

While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's ...

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America.

For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies.

'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plant life brought to the Americas by slaves and slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage and bedding, and afterwards cultivated in garden plots.

The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus.

With the knowledge you gain from this book, you will be able to create feature-rich, database-driven, interactive web sites.