American History
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Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]
John Kelly (Author); James A. Brown (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
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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 i... .... Learn More -
Extracting Stone: The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes [Paperback]
Anne S. Dowd (Author); Mary Beth D. Trubbitt (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781785706240
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 5
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This exciting new addition to the 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 ... .... Learn More -
Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos [Paperback]
Carol Diaz-Granados (Editor); Jan Simek (Editor); George Sabo (Editor); Mark Wagner (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785706288
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 4
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of... .... Learn More -
Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests [Paperback]
Tim Perttula (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781785705762
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
In this major, highly illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between ca. A.D. 850-1850. There were continual changes... .... Learn More -
Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison [Paperback]
Benjamin Anderson (Editor); Felipe Rojas (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781785706844
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Volume: 8
Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scho... .... Learn More -
The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice [Hardback]
Gordon S. Bates (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780819576767
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice looks at the role the Connecticut Prison Association played in the formation of the state’s criminal justice system. Now organized under the name Community Partners in Actio... .... Learn More -
A Critical History of the New American Studies, 1970–1990 [Hardback]
Günter H. Lenz (Author); Reinhard Isensee (Editor); Klaus Milich (Editor); Donald E. Pease (Editor); John Carlos Rowe (Editor)
£89.00ISBN: 9781512600025
Published by : Dartmouth College Press
Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
Starting in 2005, Günter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on, contributor to, and participant in the intellectual ... .... Learn More -
A Critical History of the New American Studies, 1970–1990 [Paperback]
Günter H. Lenz (Author); Reinhard Isensee (Editor); Klaus Milich (Editor); Donald E. Pease (Editor); John Carlos Rowe (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9781512600032
Published by : Dartmouth College Press
Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
Starting in 2005, Günter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on, contributor to, and participant in the intellectual ... .... Learn More -
Battlespace 1865: Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska [Paperback]
Douglas D. Scott (Author); Peter Bleed (Author); Amanda Renner (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781785703393
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
For a period of about week in February 1865, as the Civil War was winding down and Plains Indian communities were reeling in the wake of the Sand Creek massacre, combat swept across the Nebraska panhandle, especially along the Platte River. The fi... .... Learn More -
Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950 [Paperback]
Naomi Prawer Kadar (Author); David G. Roskies (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9781611689877
Published by : Brandeis University Press
Series: Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
This unique literary study of Yiddish children’s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious education of the Talmud Torahs and congregational sc... .... Learn More
