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The Americas in the Revolutionary Era, Hörbuch, Digital, 727min

Go on an in-depth, 24-lecture exploration of important (and often overlooked) questions about the tumultuous political history of the Americas. Professor Eakin explains the cultural, economic, and political pressures each of these new American nations faced in achieving independence. In addition, he examines exactly why each revolution progressed, and succeeded or failed, as it did. Beginning with the revolution in our own 13 colonies, these lectures examine the uprisings and invasions that created the independent nation of Haiti in 1804; the wars for independence in Spanish South America; the bloody uprisings that led to Mexican independence; and the relatively bloodless revolt in Brazil. You'll also consider "counterexamples" of nations that failed to become independent or followed unusual patterns, such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the British West Indies. You'll also meet the "other" founding fathers of the Americas, including Toussaint L'Ouverture, José de San Martín, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Agustín de Iturbide. Throughout these lectures, Professor Eakin brings his perspective down to ground level, spanning oceans and mountain ranges to translate those forces into dramatic events, including: a riveting portrait of life among the slaves of what was then known as Saint Domingue (later Haiti); a brilliant description of the chaotic evacuation of the Portuguese royal family as they fled to Brazil only an hour ahead of Napoleon's troops; and the bold exploits of Simón Bolívar, including his remarkable and dramatic march from the tropics of eastern Venezuela through the 13,000-foot passes of the Andes to defeat the Spanish at Boyacá and liberate Colombia. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Marshall C. Eakin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000027/bk_tcco_000027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min

Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2013 By the author of the internationally best-selling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history’s great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar. His swashbuckling exploits appear in The Three Musketeers, and his triumphs and ultimate tragic fate inspired The Count of Monte Cristo. His name is Alex Dumas. Father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, Alex has become, through his son's books, the model for a captivating modern protagonist: The wronged man in search of justice. Born to a black slave mother and a fugitive white French nobleman in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but then made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. He was only 32 when he was given command of 53,000 men, the reward for series of triumphs that many regarded as impossible, and then topped his previous feats by leading a raid up a frozen cliff face that secured the Alps for France. It was after his subsequent heroic service as Napoleon’s cavalry commander that Dumas was captured and cast into a dungeon - and a harrowing ordeal commenced that inspired one of the world’s classic works of fiction. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son. Drawing on hitherto unknown documents, letters, battlefield reports and Dumas' handwritten prison diary, The Black Count is a groundbreaking masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Michael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003246/bk_rand_003246_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Spektrum Geschichte - Die Ersten in Amerika

Die Ersten waren die Clovis. Sie kamen über die trockengefallene Beringstra¬ße nach Nordamerika. Vor rund 13 000 Jahren, als die Eisschilde genügend geschmolzen waren, stießen sie nach Süden vor. Dieses Szenario des »Clovis first« galt jahrzehntelang nahezu dogmatisch als archäologische Wahrheit. Doch vor rund 20 Jahren schwand die Gewissheit. Auf dem Doppelkontinent entdeckten Archäologen immer mehr Fundplätze, die einige Jahrtausende älter waren als die Clovis-Kultur. Of¬fensichtlich waren Menschen bereits zuvor in Amerika heimisch gewesen. Wie viel früher, darüber ist nun Streit entbrannt. Viel mehr noch: Inzwischen hat sich durch Genanalysen der Kenntnisstand weiter verändert. Demnach lief die Erstbesiedlung sehr viel komplexer ab als bislang angenommen. Jennifer Raff ist Expertin auf diesem Gebiet. Die Genetikerin und Anthropologin an der University of Kansas hat ab S. 12 aufgeschrieben, was Forscher momentan über die Erstbesied¬lung wissen und welche Szenarien plausibel sind. Die lange Geschichte des indigenen Amerika fand ein jähes und gewaltsames Ende im 16. Jahrhundert. Kolonialisten, Freibeuter, Sklavenhändler bestimmten die weiteren Ereignisse. Mit wenigen Ausnahmen: 1791 befreiten sich die Sklaven von Saint-Domingue und gründeten einen eigenen Staat - Haiti. Das benachbarte Kuba geriet hingegen 1901 in eine erzwungene Abhängigkeit der USA. Was damals genau geschah, schildern unsere Geschichtsautoren Hakan Baykal ab S. 72 und Stephan Kroener ab S. 38. Eine aufschlussreiche Lektüre wünscht Ihnen Karin Schlott, Redaktion Spektrum der Wissenschaft.

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Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 829min

Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and best-selling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War. "Her story began with a miracle." On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor - an infant girl. She falls into the hands of two French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South: Jehu Glen, a free black man with whom Ruth falls madly in love; the shabbily genteel family that first hires Ruth as Mammy; Solange's daughter Ellen and the rough Irishman, Gerald O'Hara, whom Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler family of Charleston and their shocking connection to Mammy Ruth; and finally Scarlett O'Hara - the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth. As we witness the difficult coming of age felt by three generations of women, gifted storyteller Donald McCaig reveals a portrait of Mammy that is both nuanced and poignant, at once a proud woman and a captive, and a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself. But despite the cruelties of a world that has decreed her a slave, Mammy endures, a rock in the river of time. Set against the backdrop of the South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, here is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will - and a tale that will forever illuminate your reading of Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable classic, Gone with the Wind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cherise Boothe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006869/bk_sans_006869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Black Spartacus

The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France.Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture's singular journey, from his triumphs against French, Spanish and British troops to his skilful regional diplomacy, his Machiavellian dealings with successive French colonial administrators and his bold promulgation of an autonomous Constitution. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture's rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date.After his death in the French fortress, Louverture became a figure of legend, a beacon for slaves across the Atlantic and for generations of European republicans and progressive figures in the Americas. He inspired the anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass, the most eminent nineteenth-century African-American; his emancipatory struggle was hailed by those who defied imperial and colonial rule well into the twentieth. In the modern era, his life informed the French poet Aimé Césaire's seminal idea of négritude and has been celebrated in a remarkable range of plays, songs, novels and statues. Here, in all its drama, is the epic story of the world's first black superhero.

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Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers d'Amérique

Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers d'Amérique - qui se sont signalés dans les Indes contenant ce qu'ils y ont fait de remarquable avec la vie les moeurs et les coutumes des boucaniers et des habitants de Saint-Domingue et de la Tortue: ab 4.99 €

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