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<p><em>The Touch of Civilization</em> is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections bet...
<p>Really, is there anything wrong with taking clothes off someone who is never going to wear them? When you're broke and living in the depression, you take chances and take what you can with no one getting hurt. Mame Fernbrower is a good woman, but the depression has her at the final straw. Yes, she can sew and take care of her family's needs, mending shirts, turning cuffs, making clothes last ...
<p>This novel interprets Biblical history through the lens of an alien species and their complex relationship with the human race.<br /> These aliens have been involved in human history since Adam and Eve, and throughout Biblical history, humanity has responded to these aliens in many ways -- the most significant textual responses being scattered throughout Biblical texts.</p> <p>And the H...
<p>A companion volume to <em>Environmental Conflict in Alaska</em>, <em>Pioneering Conservation in Alaska</em> chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras.</p> <p>The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could ...
<p><em>Mixtec Evangelicals</em> is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in se...
<p>Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the Westーin other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”ーhas been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer noexamples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding ...
<p>In <em>Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace,</em> Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.</p> <p>Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She descr...
<p>For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.</p> <p>Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in ...
<p><em>"The Only True People"</em> is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identityーhow it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a multidisciplinary group of well-known scholars including archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers...
<p><em>Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage</em> is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and th...
<p>Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, <em>New Mexico and the Pimer?a Alta</em> compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through ...
<p>The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Alb?n until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rat...
<p>In <em>Coal in Our Veins</em>, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors...
<p><em>Historicizing Fear</em> is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppress...
<p>As Americans try to better manage and protect the natural resources of our watersheds, is politics getting in the way? Why does watershed management end up being so political? In <em>Embracing Watershed Politics</em>, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, una...
<p>Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In <em>Confronting the “Good Death”</em> Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciar...
<p><em>Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World</em> explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.</p> <p>The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeologyーa royal Aztec dog burial, the m...
<p>L.G. Freeman is a major scholar of Old World Paleolithic prehistory and a self-described “behavioral paleoanthropologist.” <em>Anthropology without Informant</em>s is a collection of previously published papers by this preeminent archaeologist, representing a cross section of his contributions to Old Work Paleolithic prehistory and archaeological theory.</p> <p>A socio-cultural anth...