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  • Tessa Murphy The Early Indigenous Caribbean Book cover of Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean Book cover of Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 Book cover of Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Book cover of Taino Book cover of General History of the Caribbean: Autochthonous Societies
  • Andrew Hadfield Early English travel writing Book cover of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 Book cover of Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World Book cover of Madoc: The Making of a Myth Book cover of Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery Book cover of Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference
  • David Carballo The Aztec-Spanish War Book cover of The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico Book cover of The History of the Conquest of New Spain Book cover of The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World Book cover of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Book cover of When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
  • Karen Graubart Gender in colonial Latin America Book cover of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico Book cover of Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru Book cover of Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima Book cover of Passing to America: Antonio (Nee Maria) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire Public Lives, Private Secrets
  • Ida Altman What happened after Columbus got to the Caribbean Book cover of The Worlds of Christopher Columbus Book cover of Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus Book cover of Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas Book cover of An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies With Related Texts Book cover of Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680
  • Dane Kennedy Exploration and cross-cultural encounters Book cover of Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact Book cover of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Book cover of The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent Book cover of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Book cover of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
  • Olivia Milburn Epic historical narratives from around the world Book cover of Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel Book cover of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs Book cover of Moment in Peking Book cover of Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings Book cover of Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
  • Edward Shawcross The astonishing history of Mexico Book cover of News from the Empire Book cover of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs Book cover of Santa Anna of Mexico Book cover of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade Book cover of Under the Volcano
  • Carla Gardina Pestana The early modern global Caribbean Book cover of Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 Book cover of American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700 Book cover of Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World Book cover of The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (Early American Studies) Book cover of Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763
  • John G. Turner The Mayflower Pilgrims and their beliefs, practices, and habits Book cover of Of Plimoth Plantation Book cover of The Mayflower and Her Passengers Book cover of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving Book cover of One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England Book cover of Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners: Leiden and the foundations of Plymouth Plantation
  • Jenny Hale Pulsipher Seventeenth-century America Book cover of The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather Book cover of American Slavery, American Freedom Book cover of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Book cover of Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 Book cover of Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
  • Andrew Lipman The rise and fall of empires in North America Book cover of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs Book cover of The Comanche Empire Book cover of Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 Book cover of Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Book cover of A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
  • Kyoko Mori Travel memoirs for those who love to wander Book cover of The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans Book cover of Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language Book cover of Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story Book cover of The Tin Can Crucible: A firsthand account of modern-day sorcery violence Book cover of The Long Field
  • Craig Lancto To reveal the truth about the Pilgrims Book cover of Of Plymouth Plantation Book cover of Saints and Strangers Book cover of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving Book cover of The Story of America: From the Very Beginning Up to the Present Book cover of Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
  • Douglas Phillips Hard science fiction published this century Book cover of Apothecary Book cover of Project Hannibal Book cover of Last Man Standing Book cover of The Cold Light of Stars Book cover of All Systems Red
  • Mark Stein Boundaries Book cover of The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA Book cover of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book cover of Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States Book cover of Underland: A Deep Time Journey
  • Judith Brett Politics in Australia Book cover of Australia Book cover of The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia Book cover of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change Book cover of You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World Book cover of Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform
  • Matthew Restall The Aztecs and Spanish Conquistadors Book cover of Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs Book cover of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City Book cover of The Aztecs Book cover of Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain Book cover of Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire
  • Brian Fagan Climate change today and in the past Book cover of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Book cover of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Book cover of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Book cover of The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot Book cover of A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America

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