Author: Ernesto NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Spanish American Reader
Author: Ernesto NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Spanish American War, 1898
Author: Albert A. NofiPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780938289579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Spanish American War of 1898 is often viewed as a disjointed series of colorful episodes; young Americans who would later become famous, fighting a Spanish colonial army putting up a token resistance. Military commentator and historian Albert A. Nofi presents the war as a coherent military narrative, showing the confluence of the American command's Civil War experience and recent developments in technology. Serious attention is also given to the Spanish forces, the army of an empire in decline, but well-equipped and tactically sophisticated.Detailed coverage is given of both American and Spanish aims, assumptions and strategy. The author's colorful narrative is supplemented by 50 illustrations, most of which have not appeared in print since the era of the war.Specially commissioned maps highlight the most tactically significant land and naval engagements, such as the Spanish defense of El Caney and the Spanish fleet's dramatic but futile attempt to break out of Santiago harbor.Military operations are placed in the context of a growing American nation in a wider world, 35 years after the Civil War. The Spanish American War features a detailed treatment of the war in Puerto Rico. This theater was under the command of Indian fighter Nelson A. Miles and included some of the best tactical maneuvering of the war. The Puerto Rican aspect has not been covered in detail in modern works.Albert Nofi has made use of works covering the Spanish that have not been widely used in English-language works, as well as American eyewitness accounts that have not been examined in nearly a century.
The Spanish American Reader
Author: Ernesto NelsonEmpire by Default
Author: Ivan MusicantPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 9780805035001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The definitive version of the Spanish-American War as well as a dramatic account of America's emergence as a global power.
A Second Spanish Reader
Author: Stanley AppelbaumPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121771
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 258
Book Description
Geared toward advanced beginners, these highlights from poetry, plays, and stories by noted Spanish-language writers include works by Gabriela Mistral, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Lope de Vega.
The Spanish American Reader (Classic Reprint)
Author: Ernesto NelsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332443017
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Excerpt from The Spanish American Reader 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.
Elementary Spanish-American reader
Author: Edward Bergé-SolerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : es
Pages : 488
Book Description
The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence
Author: Eugenia Roldán VeraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351893653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence is a pioneering study of the export of books from Britain to early-independent Spanish America, which considers all phases of production, distribution, reading, and re-writing of British books in the region, and explores the role that these works played in the formation of national identities in the new countries. Analysing in particular the publishing house of Rudolph Ackermann, which dominated the export of British books in Spanish to the former colonies in the 1820s, it discusses the ways in which the printed form of these publications affected the knowledge conveyed by them. After a survey of the peculiar characteristics of print culture in early-independent Spanish America and the trends in the import of European books in the region, the author examines the operation of Ackermann's publishing enterprise. She shows how the collaborative nature of this enterprise, involving a number of Spanish American diplomats as sponsors and Spanish exiles as writers and translators, shaped the characteristics of its publications, and how the notion of 'useful knowledge' conveyed by them was deployed in the service of both commercial and educational concerns. The hitherto unexplored mechanisms of book import, distribution, wholesale and retailing in Spanish America in the 1820s are also analysed as is the way in which the significance of the knowledge transmitted by those books shifted in the course of their production and distribution. The author examines how the question-and-answer form of Ackermann's textbooks constrained both publishers and writers and oriented their readers' relation with the texts. She then looks at the various ways in which foreign knowledge was appropriated in the construction of individual, social, national, and continental identities; this is done through the study of a number of individual reading experiences and through the analysis of the editions and adaptations of Ackermann's textbooks during the nineteenth century.
Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader
Author: Ernesto NelsonInside the Spanish-American War
Author: James M. McCaffreyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This is the story of the Spanish-American War, told not from the perspective of generals, policy makers, or politicians, but from that of the soldiers, sailors and marines in the field and the reporters who covered their efforts. Concentration on the daily lives of these people provides insight into the often overlooked facets of a soldier's life, detailing their training and interaction with weaponry, their food, clothing, and medical supplies, and their personal interactions and daily struggles. While the Spanish-American War set the stage for America's emergence as a global power, this is its history on an individual scale, as seen through the eyes of those upon whom the war had the most immediate impact.