TWO leading objects of commercial gain have given birth to wide and daring enterprise in the early
history of the Americas; the precious metals of the South, and the rich peltries of the North.
This "Inquiry Seminar in the Humanities" explores how these and other tropical commodities have shaped the
history of the Americas from the fifteenth century to the present.
Finally, Las Casas seeks to establish his own preeminence as an authority on the early
history of the Americas. He does this mainly by inserting some autobiographical sections into the Historia.
Other dance-dramas tell of woman's struggle with her primal, often tragic role in Native American cosmology or the
history of the Americas. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky is an Iroquois creation myth of a beautiful birdlike creature who comes from the heavens to give birth to sacred twin boys who create play, then war, and discover death and its horror.
He is especially interested in the mining and milling
history of the Americas and Australasia.
The written
history of the Americas began in 50 B.C., long before the ascent of the Aztecs or the arrival of the Europeans, and is studded with a string of kings whose lives and culture are just beginning to come to light.
History and Imperialism," Labor: Studies in Working-Class
History of the Americas 1 (Summer, 2004): 113-129.
Saint Domingue produced one of the wealthiest classes of free-colored slaveholders in the
history of the Americas. In this assiduously researched volume, King succeeds admirably in achieving a stated goal of bringing depth and complexity to a subject too easily ignored or glossed over by historians of slavery in the Americas.