American History
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Extracting Stone: The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes [Paperback]
Anne S. Dowd (Author); Mary Beth D. Trubitt (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785706240
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 7
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This exciting new addition to the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three key ... .... Learn More -
Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]
John E. Kelly (Author); James A. Brown (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785708855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 6
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The large American Indian city of Cahokia sits amidst a diverse natural landscape within the larger central Mississippi river valley. Well positioned on the rich agricultural soils of the Mississippi river bottomlands of the Amercan Bottom it is a... .... Learn More -
From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World's Columbian Exposition [Hardback]
Zachary L. Brodt (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9780822947912
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania’s representation at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, the first major step in demonstrating that Pittsburgh was more than simply America’s crucible—it was... .... Learn More -
Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh's Famed Department Store [Paperback]
Marylynne Pitz (Author); Laura Malt Schneiderman (Author)
£14.00ISBN: 9780822967132
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant community of German Jews selling sewing items to the coal... .... Learn More -
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America [Paperback]
Cheryl Claassen (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781789259292
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 8
In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape st... .... Learn More -
A History of Suriname [Paperback]
Hans Buddingh (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9789464261394
Published by : Sidestone Press
A History of Suriname presents the first comprehensive overview in English to cover the distant past as well as current events in the former Dutch colony located on the Wild Coast of South America where Spanish and English adventurers onc... .... Learn More -
A History of Suriname [Hardback]
Hans Buddingh (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9789464261400
Published by : Sidestone Press
A History of Suriname presents the first comprehensive overview in English to cover the distant past as well as current events in the former Dutch colony located on the Wild Coast of South America where Spanish and English adventurers onc... .... Learn More -
Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town (2nd Edition) [Paperback]
Margaret Byington (Author); Tom Waseleski (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9780822966845
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Homestead, The Households of a Mill Town, was first published in 1910 as one volume in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, and describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of ... .... Learn More -
The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley [Paperback]
R. Alton Lee (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813195391
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
By 1926, it seemed that John R. Brinkley's experimental rejuvenation cure
face=Calibri>– transplanting goat glands into aging men
face=Calibri>– had taken the nation by storm. Never mind that 'Doc' Brink... .... Learn More -
The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad [Hardback]
Alicestyne Turley (Author); Dick Gilbreath (Drawings by)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813195476
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Wilbur H. Siebert published his landmark study of the Underground Railroad in 1898, revealing a secret system of assisted slave escapes. A product of his time, Siebert based his research on the accounts of white, male, northern abolitionists. Whil... .... Learn More
