Mosquitoland

"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015"--Title page verso.

The Native Races of the Pacific States is the magnum opus American historian and ethnologist Hubert Howe Bancroft who took upon himself the task of researching the exotic civilizations of the entire Pacific coast region. This region, from Alaska to Darien, including the whole of Mexico and Central America, he named the Pacific States. Before the arrival of Europeans, these territories were populated by aborigines, from the reptile-eating cave-dwellers of the Great Basin, to the Aztec and Maya civilization of the southern table-land. Volume 1 – Wild Tribes Volume 2 – Civilized Nations Volume 3 – Myths and Languages Volume 4 – Antiquities Volume 5 – Primitive History

The study covers in considerable detail the historical events and circumstances surrounding American military intervention in the internal affairs of Russia and Nicaragua. Background information was obtained from appropriate texts, military records and reports, unit histories, reports of Congressional hearings, the Congressional Record, and unpublished manuscripts from the Military History Research Collection. This history traces President Wilson's dilema as pressure is applied by the Allies for American supported intervention in Russia after the collapse of the Eastern Front in 1971. Wilson finally succumbs, and American troops are landed in Archangel and Vladivostok to take part in an ill fated intervention. American troops are later withdrawn from combat in the face of disaster and bitter opposition on the home front. American involvement in Nicaragua is traced from early conflicts with Britain for supremacy in Central America to the second American intervention during the civil war of 1926. The complicated involvement of the US Marines and American capital to solve Nicaraguan problems is stressed. The study also develops the conflict between the Congress and the administration in both interventions over the war powers of the executive. (Author).