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Book SynopsisBorn in slavery, Charles Young was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black US military attache and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. This biography of Young's years at West Point chronicles the challenges that Young faced, and provides a window into life at West Point in the 1880s.Trade Review"Shellum draws on his own West Point knowledge in vividly portraying the difficulties Young encountered, and he points up Young's determination and devotion to his country."—BooklistTable of ContentsPrologue: From the Jungles of Liberia; 1. Enslaved in Kentucky; 2. Freedom in Ohio; 3. Beast Barracks and Plebe Year; 4. Plebe Year Again; 5. Yearling Upperclassman; 6. Cow Year Alone; 7. Firstie Year and Graduation; Epilogue: Reflections

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Book SynopsisA description of life of the Lakota Indians in the late nineteenth century from the perspective of an Indian.

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Book SynopsisDescribing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, this title also offers general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society. It is interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization.Trade Review"A serious and notable contribution to racial understanding."--Saturday Review of Literature

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Book SynopsisA series of short stories, related by the author, handed down from generation to generation of the Lakota tribe. This work honours the buffalo, the dog, the horse, the eagle, and the wolf as workaday helpers and agents of divine intervention; the wisdom of the medicine man; and the heroism and resourcefulness of individual men and women.Trade Review"All of the stories are filled with the Indian's mysticism, with his magic lore and his sense of friendly alliance with the kindred animal spirits and of his ultimate faith in the 'Great Mystery.' They are retold ... in a forthright graphic style well adapted to their vigorous material and tradition." New York Times "These short pieces will serve to ... acquaint [readers] with the distinct charm and the almost classical simplicity with which the Indian story-tellers expressed themselves." Boston Transcript

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Book SynopsisDenise Low recovers the life and times of her grandfather Frank Bruner (1889–1963), whose expression of Lenape identity was largely discouraged by mainstream society.Trade Review"This book is a deep and important gift from a master wordcrafter."—Kim Shuck, World Literature Today"A beautiful memoir, The Turtle's Beating Heart demonstrates the pain and relief of this kind of recovery work and the importance of making Indigenous people and their stories visible in a country that would rather forget its Indigenous history and its consequences."—Lisa King, Western American Literature"Candid, compelling, and thoughtful personal stories of resilience are interlaced with poetic prose and occasional wry humor. Low generously shares a deep exploration into her family's ancestry."—Shirley Braunlich, Lawrence Public Library"Readers interested in the 20th-century American Indian experience will find this to be a valuable account."—John R. Burch, Library Journal"An engagingly written mix of research, reportage, and memoir, infused with the passion of discovery."—Kirkus"Low does Americans with Indian ancestry a valuable service by illuminating the unique and often terrible circumstances and choices their forebears faced."—Pamela Miller, Star Tribune"Low addresses the generational problems that coincide with this attempted elimination of heritage, and her story powerfully uncovers memories while reclaiming her family's cultural identity."—Katie Wolf, Transmotion“The Turtle’s Beating Heart pierces the veil of anonymity and mystery surrounding [Denise Low’s] Delaware grandfather. As she examines his life and times, she not only discovers much about his identity; she also learns a great deal about herself and the rest of her family and other Delaware-descended people. . . . As she learns, so, too, does the fortunate reader.”—Geary Hobson, professor of English and Native American Literatures at the University of Oklahoma“A beautifully layered history of Delaware diaspora and continuance. The memoir is an act of honoring to Low’s own family, to be sure, but it also crucially assesses the intricate meanings of Native peoples’ displacement and resistance for any contemporary reader.”—Molly McGlennen, author of Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits“In this important book, Low speaks powerfully and poignantly of the plight of mixed-blood families plagued by once-justified fear and its resultant secrecy and the troubling confusion and aching absence this leaves for the grand- and great-grandchildren.”—Linda Rodriguez, author of Every Broken Trust and Heart’s MigrationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part 1. A Twentieth-Century Native Man: Frank Bruner (1889–1963) Part 2. Cutting Ties: Dorothy Bruner (1915–2002) Part 3. A Haunted Life: Denise Dotson (b. 1949) Part 4. Today: Living in Delaware Country Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Of One Mind and Of One Government Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of Georgia insisted that the Creeks sign three treaties to cede tribal lands.The Creeks objected vigorously, igniting a series of border conflicts that escalated throughout the late eighteenth century and hardened partisan lines between pro-American, pro-Spanish, and pro-British Creeks and their leaders. Creek politics shifted several times through historical contingencies, self-interests, changing leadership, and debate about how to best preserve sovereignty, a process that generated national sentiment within the nascent and imperfect Creek Nation. Based on original archival research and a revisionist interpretation, Kokomoor explores how the state of Georgia’s increasiTrade Review"This book contributes immensely to the field of ethnohistory in its expert examination of Creek politics in the early nineteenth century and its placement of the Creek Nation into a larger context of nation building."—Alex Colvin, Chronicles of Oklahoma“A stunning book about an indigenous people’s valiant attempts to stand up to American expansionism through an internal political revolution—an attempt that ultimately failed, not because the Creeks could not realize a new political order but because America would not let them. It is just brilliant.”—Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi and author of Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South “The subject is vital. Nationalism encompasses all people in the early nineteenth century. The Creek National Council has been a source of contention for a long time. [The book’s] bold thesis, advocating the efficacy of the Creek National Council, will generate productive debate for years to come.”—Steven C. Hahn, professor of history at St. Olaf College and author of The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Prologue: “A few of those belonging to the Coweta Town:” A Crisis in Creek Country Introduction Part I: The End of Creek Country Chapter 1:“All the Red People Were Now the King’s People:” Creek Partisans Emerge During the American Revolution Chapter 2: “No acts of a few or part can or does bend the whole:” Georgia Treaties and Creek Partisans Chapter 3: “The Just retaliation upon the Georgians:” Partisan Creeks at War Chapter 4: Like “mad people . . . running crazy:” Creek Country in Crisis Part II: Building a Creek Nation Chapter 5: “By the voice of the whole of the Upper Creeks and likewise the Cussetahs:” A Stronger Nationhood Chapter 6: “I will try the experiment and I think it will succeed:” The Ascendancy of the National Council Chapter 7: “To be of one mind and of one Government:” Legitimating a Creek Nation Part III: The Fate of the Creek Nation Chapter 8: “Retarded by the Demon of politiks:” The National Council Splintering Chapter 9: “You who are afraid look to yourselves, you who are warriors, turn out:” The Red Stick War and the Future of the National Council Epilogue: “The Government of the Creeks is not an ephemeral one:” The Creek Nation in the Removal Era Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMary F. Ehrlander illuminates the remarkable life of Walter Harper, a traditionally raised Koyukon Athabascan of Irish Athabascan descent who was a leader of his people during his brief life.Trade Review“[A] wonderfully written testament to a life of adventure. The Walter Harper we come to know is immensely likable, and his escapades irresistible. He was one of the great Alaskans of his time. This book is a fitting tribute.”—David A. James, Anchorage Daily News“In Ehrlander’s affectionate portrait a century later, Walter Harper reclaims some of his lost potential to serve as a ‘role model for individuals with mixed heritage the world over.’”—Margaret Thomas, Alaska History“Ehrlander’s portrait is of a remarkable young man who lived life to the fullest. An inspiring example of resilience, character, faith, service, and loving-kindness, Walter Harper’s legacy is a testament to the Native peoples of Alaska, the indomitable human spirit, and the selflessness of those who work as missionaries in the Church in the harshest and remotest of places.”—Jason VanBorrsum, Anglican and Episcopal History“A fascinating glimpse into a pivotal moment in Alaskan history through the story of the short life of Walter Harper, a protégé of the redoubtable missionary Hudson Stuck. The men and women of Alaska were tough and hearty souls.”—Steve Thomas, author and host of This Old House and Renovation Nation and grandson of the Reverend William A. Thomas, a contemporary of Walter Harper“Not only a fine work of history but a rousing adventure tale and a love story. This is a great book.”—Terrence M. Cole, professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks“A concise picture of Walter Harper’s character and personality. This is a historical account of a courageous Athabascan leader whom we all should learn about.”—Walter Carlo, chairman of the board of Doyon Limited, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act corporation for the Athabascans of Alaska’s interior“A fine biography of a young man of talent and energy who successfully coped with two cultures during a time of rapid change in Alaska. Mary Ehrlander has employed crisp and enlightening prose to illuminate both the era and the history of the Yukon region.”—John Bockstoce, Arctic historian and archaeologist“Mary Ehrlander’s assiduous scholarship combined with a delightful storytelling style make Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son both easy to read and available for multiple fields of academic interest.”—Phyllis Fast, professor of anthropology emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and great-niece of Walter HarperTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Childhood and Adolescence 2. On the River and on the Trail with Archdeacon Stuck 3. Ascent of Denali 4. Mount Hermon School 5. Return to Alaska 6. The Winter Circuit 7. Summer and Fall 1918 Epilogue: Harper’s Legacy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the US and Australia. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples.Trade Review“A shining example of how to do comparative and transnational history.”—American Historical Review “[Gregory D. Smithers] combines a very ambitious synthesis of existing scholarship with original research into primary sources. This book could have a profound impact upon scholarly thinking in relevant fields.”—Ann McGrath, author of Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia “A keen critique of the impossible logic of racism in two major settler societies anxious to strengthen their sense of nationhood. . . . Readers will be fully convinced of the key importance of whiteness in both these societies, and of the science that bolstered it.”—Philippa Levine, author of The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note about TerminologyIntroductionPart I1. On the Importance of Good Breeding2. Debating Race and the Meaning of Whiteness3. Eliminating the "Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization”4. Racial Discourse in the United States and AustraliaPart II5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s–1850s6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s–1850s7. The Evolution of an American Race, 1860s–1890s8. The Evolution of White Australia, 1860–1890Part III9. The “Science” of Human Breeding10. “Breeding out the Colour”EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLiza Black critically examines the inner workings of post–World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.” Trade Review“A refreshing take on an old story, one that has too often emphasized settler colonial tropes at the expense of Indigenous experiences. . . . Picturing Indians is an important and impressive contribution to a growing body of historical literature that asks us ‘to look at the movies as a site of work as well as art.’ . . . More importantly, [Black] demands that we reckon with the physical presence of Native people in the movie industry, where they exercised their own judgment and made their own meanings for the work they performed within the constraints of the studio system.”—Andrew Fisher, American Historical Review “A significant contribution to the growing Indigenous studies scholarship in the area of film and media studies.”—Angelica Lawson, Western Historical Quarterly “Fresh and original. . . . Picturing Indians represents a critical contribution to the field of Native American representations in film with its study of labor history and analysis.”—Michelle Raheja, Film Quarterly"In both method and content, this book charts a new movement in Indigenous film studies in particular and film studies in general. It is welcome, indeed."—Jennifer L. Jenkins, Southwestern Historical Quarterly“Black’s study of the lives, labor, and organized guilds of Native American and (faux) Native American actors within the Hollywood film industry is not a recuperative gesture, but instead it is a radical intervention that turns the tables on the simple vilification of the Hollywood Indian and the settler colonialist ideology imbued within the films.”—Andre Seewood, American Indian Quarterly "This book is necessary reading to anyone interested in studying Native American visual representation."—Steve Pelletier, American Indian Culture and Research Journal“Meticulously researched, this engrossing volume fills a deep void in both film studies and Native American history.”—Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine “Liza Black systematically studies Indian characters in the Hollywood films of the l940s and l950s and shows how film created a single type of Indian for Native and non-Native actors, though the latter often received higher pay. Black disables this construct, and she offers a stunning history of the experiences of Native American actors who worked in the film industry during these years.”—Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California“Liza Black’s exhaustively researched study of American Indian actors fills a gap in scholarship on Native American performance by focusing on the most influential and damaging period for Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples. Highlighting their efforts to make a living in the film industry and negotiate its expectations, Black powerfully demonstrates Native people’s survival and agency, as well as the ways popular culture created and abetted narratives that continue to support indigenous erasure and dispossession.”—Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “Just Like a Snake You’ll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit”: American Indians and White Narcissism 2. “Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed”: Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors 3. “Not Desired by You for Photographing”: The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras 4. “White May Be More Than Skin Deep”: Whites in Redface 5. “A Bit Thick”: The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians 6. “Dig Up a Good Indian Historian”: The Search for Authenticity Epilogue Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

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Book Synopsis2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions and struggles of multiracialism in American life through individual consciousness, social perceptions, societal expectations, and subjective struggles with multiracial identity. McKibbin weaves a rich sociohistorical tapestry around the critically acclaimed works of Danzy Senna, Caucasia (1998); Rebecca Walker, Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2001); Emily Raboteau, The Professor’s Daughter (2005); Rachel M. Harper, Brass Ankle Blues (2006); and Heidi Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010). Taking into account the social history of racial classification and the literary history oTrade Review"In this groundbreaking study of multiracialism, McKibbin . . . explores recent criticism and contemporary autobiography and fiction. . . . The author understands the political implications of her subject, and she explores President Obama's role in the reformation of concepts of mixed-race individuals. This provocative book is cautious in its claims, acknowledging that current awareness is still in its early stages and has not yet been fully incorporated into the nation's general consciousness."—T.P. Riggio, Choice“Shades of Gray deepens our understanding of how race and multiracial identities are evolving and enriches efforts to frame these evolving identities in theoretically sound and productive ways.”—Carlton D. Floyd, associate professor of English at the University of San DiegoTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race and Mixed Race in the United States 1. “What Are You, Anyway?”: The Social Context of Racial Identity 2. Wonders of the Invisible Race: Negotiating Whiteness 3. “Black Like Me”: Negotiating Blackness 4. Mixed Ethnicity: Multiracialism as Multicultural Identity Conclusion: The (Continuing) Work of Multiracial Literature Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first ethnography of the vibrant Aboriginal media community in Vancouver, Sovereign Screens uncovers the social forces shaping that community, including community media organisations and avant-garde art centres, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions.Trade Review“An accessible, thoughtful exploration of the important contributions Aboriginal media arts offer to Indigenous media studies, experimental and avant-garde media arts, and Indigenous sovereignty.”—Bernard C. Perley, American Ethnologist“Establishes a persuasive narrative of the development of an influential aspect of Aboriginal culture.”—Roy Todd, British Journal of Canadian Studies “Sovereign Screens validates film as a powerful engine that drives self-determination through visual sovereignty, a returning to ourselves that can unite Aboriginal and all peoples through the shared experience of cinema.”—Grace L. Dillon, Pacific Historical Review “[A] beautifully detailed ethnography of Vancouver’s growing Aboriginal media hub. . . . Dowell convincingly argues that Aboriginal media is an act of visual sovereignty.”—Jennifer Kramer, author of Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity “Nowhere is Aboriginal media more active, more vibrant, and more significant than in Canada. . . . The efforts of small, underfunded, ambitious, and creative groups of filmmakers in Vancouver make for an engaging story. . . . This is a clear, useful, and well-researched book.”—Michael Evans, author of Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Vancouver's Aboriginal Media World1. The Indigenous Media Arts Group2. Canadian Cultural Policy and Aboriginal Media3. Aboriginal Diversity On-Screen4. Building Community Off-Screen5. Cultural Protocol in Aboriginal Media6. Visual Sovereignty in Aboriginal Experimental MediaEpilogueAppendix: Filmmakers and FilmsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the spatial and ecological repercussions of dispossession. This title contains maps that give the spatial context of dispossession, showing how Indian societies were restricted to ever smaller territories where American policies of social control were applied with increasing intensity.Trade Review"An even-handed, elegantly presented and thoroughly researched example of the sort of work historical geographers need to be doing."—Journal of Historical Geography"A valuable and meticulous study."—London Times Literary Supplement"No serious student of Indian history or Indian-white history can overlook this singular book, a readable, thoroughly documented history of the Indians of Nebraska—Pawnee, Otoe, Missouria, Ponca, and Omaha. . . . David Wishart has given readers what I regard as one of the best histories of the American Indians ever written. . . I find Wishart’s work exceptionally meritorious in the field."—Wilbur R. Jacobs, Journal of American History"A well-written and authoritative work." —Francis Paul Prucha, Great Plains Quarterly

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Book SynopsisSituating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history because it relies solely on Indigenous oral tradition for its primary sources and privileges Dakota language in the text.Trade Review“Wilson makes a critical intervention in the study of Native histories by offering a model of how to decolonize our tribal histories that have remained the domain of non-Indian historians for far too long. She is also not afraid to raise questions about the ways in which we as Native people have internalized colonialist messages about what is Native, such as the use of our warrior traditions to uphold American imperialism. As a Dine historian committed to the decolonization of my own people, I find Waziyatawin Angela Wilson’s study a welcome contribution to the study of Native peoples.”—Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisJames R Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. This volume of material from the Walker collection presents his work on Lakota myth and legend. It is useful for students of comparative literature, religion, and mythology, as well as those interested in Lakota culture.Trade Review“A primary source of research and serious study. . . . Ethnology at its best.”—American Indian Culture and Research Journal“One of the major publications of American Indian myth.”—Reviews in Anthropology“[Elaine Jahner] is sensitive to the analysis of texts, sensitive to meanings hidden between the cracks of texts and correspondences, and sensitive and generous to the scholars—Sioux and non-Indian alike—who preceded her in collecting and analyzing the myths and cultural detail of the Teton Dakota Sioux.”—Pacific Historical Review“An immensely interesting and provocative addition to the literature of the Plains Indians.”—North Dakota History

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Book SynopsisUntil the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries.Trade Review“This book is a triumph of information about Plains tribes that must be on the bookshelf of everyone at all interested in their history and future. The tribes and reservations are, after all, important as ‘islands of population increase in a sea of rural population decline,’ in the Great Plains.”—Francis Moul, Lincoln Journal Star"This new volume's strength is as a single source that draws the various Great Plains Indians and their cultures together. . . . The general index is detailed and comprehensive; an index of contributors is included. This volume offers core information on the Native peoples of the Great Plains, covering a considerable expanse of time and subject matter."—Choice“Because of its vast collection of short entries, this is an easy read that is informative and fascinating….the University of Nebraska Press’ Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians is a wonderful supplement to the often-sad story of America’s first settlers.” —Rick Galusha, Omaha City Weekly“The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians is a wonderful resource for readers interested in learning more about the original inhabitants of the Great Plains, and should spur most to delve further into the topics that pique their interest.”—New West“The variety and range of the articles will appeal to any teacher or student of American history or American studies. . . . A valuable addition to any reference shelf.” —Patricia Moore, Kliatt“Here are the people, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present….Anyone wanting to know about Plains Indians, past and present, will find this an authoritative and fascinating source.”—Nebraska Magazine"The entries in the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains are well written and informative. . . . [They] succeed in the editor’s quest to show what the Native peoples of that region have endured, what they have accomplished, and how they have remained central to life on the Great Plains. This is a quality publication that scholars and aficionados of American Indian history and cultures and Great Plains and Oklahoma histories will want to read and own."—John D. May, Chronicles of Oklahoma"The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians represents the single best reference work on the topic. In short, Wishart has condensed a vast array of subjects within the broader context of Great Plains Indians into one highly useable book."—James E. Sherow, Great Plains Quarterly

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Restoring the Chain of Friendship does an admirable job of exploring the complications of British policy, and it does an even greater service for the field by explaining how native opinions and actions contributed to those complications."—John P. Bowes, Journal of American History"Timothy D. Willig has made a major contribution to the field. . . . With the bicentennial of the War of 1812 not far off, it will be of special interest to those seeking to make sense of the varied native responses to that enigmatic conflict."—Sandy Antal, Northwest Ohio History"Willig's analyses of Indian and British relations "on the ground" are persuasively connected to a history of policy development and implementation because he is able to incorporate a great deal of Native perspective."—Kiara M. Vigil, Michigan Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: The Chain of Friendship in the Colonial Past1. The Quest for a Just Peace, 1783-95 2. A New Diplomacy at Amherstburg, 1796-1803 3. British-Indian Relations in the North, 1796-1802 4. A New Society on the Grand River, 1784-1801 5. John Norton and the Continuing Struggle at the Grand River, 1801-12 6. Restoring the Chain of Friendship in the West and in the North, 1801-12 Epilogue: Reassessing the Chain of Friendship, 1812 and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisServes as a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. This book talks about the legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from the author's life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. It bridges the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society.

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Book SynopsisExamines the challenging subject of discoursemarkers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Ojibwe Discourse Markers is a remarkable study that interprets and describes the Ojibwe language in its broader theoretical concerns in the field of linguistics.Trade Review“Discourse markers, a major aspect of Ojibwe, as Brendan Fairbanks notes, are among the elements that make teaching and learning Ojibwe as a second language particularly challenging. The author’s insightful analysis of the nuances they bring to expression will greatly aid instructors and adult learners in particular.”—M. Naokwegijig-Corbiere, assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Sudbury“In Ojibwe Discourse Markers the author has tackled a challenging and poorly understood area of Ojibwe grammar. Grounding his study in authentic Ojibwe data from multiple sources, Brendan Fairbanks has made a valuable contribution to our knowledge of this important Algonquian language.”—John O’Meara, dean and faculty of education at Lakehead University in Ontario and author of Delaware-English/English-Delaware DictionaryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction and background1.1. The language1.2. Why study Ojibwe discourse markers?1.3. Methodology1.4. Orthography2. What is a discourse marker?2.1. Schiffrin’s definition of discourse markers2.2. Relevance theorists’ view of discourse markers2.3. Cross-linguistic data2.3.1. Position2.3.2. Clitics and affixes2.3.3. tam (tense-aspect-mode) systems2.3.4. Simultaneous textual and interpersonal functions of discourse markers2.4. Defining discourse markers3. Ojibwe discourse markers3.1. Discourse connectives3.1.1. Initial position3.1.1.1. inashke3.1.1.2. miinawaa3.1.1.3. onzaam3.1.1.4. dibishkoo3.1.1.5. mii dash3.1.2. Second position3.1.2.1. idash as a contrastive marker3.1.2.1.1. Digressions3.1.2.1.2. Backgrounding and foregrounding3.1.2.1.3. idash in adjacency pairs3.1.3. Preverbs3.1.3.1. Relative preverb izhi3.2. Mystery particles3.2.1. Initial position3.2.1.1. mii as a veridical marker3.2.1.2. mii as a command softener3.2.1.3. awenh, inenh3.2.1.4. aaniish3.2.2. Second-position mystery particles3.2.2.1. isa3.2.2.1.1. isa as a marker of closings3.2.2.1.2. isa as a marker of relinquishment3.2.2.1.3. isa as a marker of conclusory gists3.2.2.1.4. isa as a marker of resultant action3.2.2.1.5. isa as a position strengthener3.2.2.1.6. isa as a placeholder3.2.2.1.7. sa go3.2.2.2. gosha3.2.2.3. sha3.2.2.4. da3.2.2.5. bina3.2.2.6. goda3.2.2.7. naa3.2.2.7.1. Second-position discourse clusters with naa4. Conjunct order as a discourse-marking device4.1. Sentence-level use of conjuncts4.1.1. Dependent clauses4.1.2. Temporal immediacy and the connective feature of the conjunct4.1.3. Situational immediacy4.2. Discourse use of conjuncts5. ConclusionNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. Christopher W. Merritt uses the statewide Montana context to show the diversity of Chinese settlements that has often been neglected by archival studies.Trade Review"Merritt's scholarship provides much needed attention to the rural Chinese American experience east of California. Since much of the existing historical scholarship on the pre-1965 Asian American community focuses on urban populations in North American West Coast, Merritt's detailed research on Montana's Chinese American community is a significant contribution to Asian American history and Montanan history."—Kelly N. Fong, Western Historical Quarterly"A meticulously researched and carefully written study. . . . It is loaded with graphs, charts, lists and pictures of archaeological sites and artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese miners, laundry and agricultural workers, cooks and restaurant owners. . . . An essential source on the Montana Chinese experience."—Harlan Hague, True West Magazine"This research is a worthy addition to the scant body of documented information about the daily life of the Chinese immigrants in America. Even fewer published resources bring the historical narrative into this relatively recent period. The book concludes with a valuable dissection of many of the prevailing myths about the Chinese experience, both in Montana and elsewhere. It is refreshing to see a publication that illuminates Chinese communities in the American interior, rather than coastal settlements. By using archaeology and primary historical research, along with a focus upon the details of daily life, and providing statistics to validate his conclusions, Merritt has offered a well researched contribution to the deeper understanding of the overseas Chinese."—Roberta S. Greenwood, Historical Archaeology"Christopher Merritt's new book is a welcome addition to the study of Chinese immigration to North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's a compelling account of Chinese immigrants' contributions to the economic and social development of the Great Plains in general, and to the state of Montana in particular."—Roland Hsu, Great Plains Quarterly“A grand overview of Chinese experiences in Montana. This much-needed volume will help to fill the gap of studying the Chinese immigrants in the interior American West.”—Liping Zhu, author of The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the WestTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Entrance and Expansion, 1862–1880 2. Restriction and Legal Attacks, 1880–1900 3. Diversification, Collapse, and Aging, 1900–1943 4. Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese in Montana 5. Chinese Social Organization in Montana and Archaeological Implications 6. Conclusions and Future Directions References Index

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Book SynopsisIn All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas’ religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the “ontological turn,” particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how a new animist framework can connect and articulate otherwise disparate and obscure elements of Lakota ethnography. Stripped of its problematic nineteenth-century social evolutionary elements and viewed as an ontological or spiritual alternative, this reevaluated concept of animism for a twenty-first-century sensibility provides a compelling lens through which traditional Lakota mythology, dreams and visions, and ceremony may be productively analyzed and more fully understood. Posthumus exploTrade Review"All My Relatives is an important contribution to the anthropological and ethnohistorical research on Lakota religion. It sets several standards for the field, showcasing the richness of sources, the complexity of theological Lakota argumentation, and how these sources can be analyzed in a meaningful way."—Sebastian Braun, Journal of Anthropological Research“In this superb ethnography of North American animism, David Posthumus paints a vivid and poetic picture of what it meant for the nineteenth-century Lakota Sioux to live in a world beyond the human that they shared with scores of animal persons and spirits. A remarkable achievement.”—Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture"All My Relatives provides us with a look into the core beliefs and practices of the Lakota people from an ontological view as well as an ethnographic one. Posthumus's firm grasp of Lakota history and culture adds clarity and historical significance to text, which is vital to understanding the Lakota people, their beliefs, and their rituals."—Victoria Sprague, Great Plains Quarterly"This is a must-read for the student of Lakota ontology, belief, and ritual. Posthumus adds to the field of collected works that capture once again the adage, 'We have much to learn from the American Indian.'"—Maka Akan Najin Clifford, Nebraska History"All My Relatives is a work that challenges the modern West's collective memory of American Indian spiritual beliefs, a relic of nineteenth-century Christian colonialism through missionary enterprises. Most impressive is the author's use of Lakota language to offer a more accurate translation of words and phrases that the Christian missionaries defined and employed to portray Lakota religion as void of any spiritual value. To the contrary, Posthumus argues that in an animist ontology, the principle of relatedness is at the heart of Lakota spirituality."—Lisa Barnett, South Dakota History"The serious reader will be richly rewarded in working through the book given Posthumus's sophisticated explication of Lakota interspecies relations and their implications for ritual enactment. . . . His work clearly demonstrates the promise of the new animism for indigenous research, and its application to Lakota lifeways specifically, and to Native American sacred traditions in general."—Fritz Detwiler, Reading Religion“The subject of Lakota ontology, belief, and ritual has enduring value and significance for all who are interested in the Sioux, in the literature of Black Elk, and in Plains ethnohistory generally. . . . All My Relatives is very strong in its command of Lakota sources, notably the writings of the Delorias, of ethnohistorical records, and of relevant secondary sources.”—Jennifer S. H. Brown, professor emerita of history at the University of Winnipeg and editor of Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in ConversationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Hallowell, Descola, Ontology, and Phenomenology 2. Situated Animism and Lakota Relational Ontology 3. The Living Rock, Grandfather of All Things 4. Persons and Transformation 5. Spirits and Ghosts 6. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Mythology 7. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Dreams and Visions 8. Nonhuman Persons in Lakota Ritual 9. The Dynamics of Life Movement Glossary of Lakota Terms and Phrases Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of Christian evangelical movements in shaping American identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Christianity's fervent pursuit of Native American salvation, Hayes Peter Mauro discusses Anglo American artists influenced by Christian millenarianism, natural history, and racial science in America.Trade Review“With numerous illustrations Messianic Fulfillments offers an important contribution to art history with interpretations of paintings and images of Native peoples and other ‘subaltern groups.’ It examines the vicissitudes of ideas and artistic renderings about race from colonial America to the present as presented in the epilogue. Mauro’s writing style will engage general readers, undergraduates, and more advanced scholars alike.”—Julius H. Rubin, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Saint Joseph“The subject of how evangelical notions of ‘Otherness,’ race, American national identity, and evangelical Christianity are woven throughout American culture and history, and how visual representations of these notions are deployed to further their wider cultural adoption, is very important, especially so given the current political climate. Messianic Fulfillments makes a substantial contribution to the fields of race, religion, and American history and studies and also contributes to work in visual and material religious culture.”—Jennifer Snead, University of New Mexico Health Sciences CenterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Puritanism and Fidelity 2. Quakerism, Skulls, and Sanctity 3. Mormonism, Light and Dark 4. The Social Gospel, Christ’s Kingdom on Earth Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPontiac, Sequoyah, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle. These legendary names are familiar even to the uninitiated in Native American history, yet the life stories of these great spiritual leaders have been largely unknown.Trade Review“Frank Waters is the premier writer of the American West. Whatever we have learned from everything else that he has written, we find it coalesced here. Frank saved his best and deepest book for the last.”“Waters looks at an assemblage of great American Indians across the continent. In his lyrical fashion, he tells … why they will never be forgotten.”“A valuable introduction to Native American history.” * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisRust Belt Burlesque traces the history of burlesque in Cleveland from the 1800s to the present, while also telling the story of Bella Sin, a Mexican immigrant who largely drove Northeast Ohio’s burlesque comeback. Over 100 color photos provide a peek into the raucous Ohio Burlesque Festival that packs the Beachland Ballroom every year.Trade Review“This is no eat-your-vegetables history book. Scholarship and entertainment go hand in hand to make the most of a fun, racy topic. O’Brien does a brilliant job of illuminating the past and introducing readers to the the current crop of entertainers, and Perkoski’s photos knock it out of the park.”

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Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and how they felt about their Spanish overlords.In examining the character of village uprisings, typical relationships between killers and the people they killed, and the drinking patterns of the late colonial period, the author finds no warrant for the familiar picture of sullen depredation and despair. Landed peasants of colonial Mexico drank moderately on the whole, and mostly on ritual occasions; they killed for personal and not political reasons. Only when new Spanish encroachments threatened their lands and livelihoods did their grievances flare up in rebellion, and these occasions were numer

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women''s legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women''s education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty.These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pTable of ContentsCONTENTS PART I. 1. 2. 3. PART II. 4. 5. 6. 7. PART III. 8. 9. 10. 11. PART IV. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

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Book SynopsisThis is the second book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1880 to 1950. The central issuesmotherhood, women''s legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women''s education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty.These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote Table of ContentsCONTENTS PART I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PART II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to examine the changing roles of women in Japan during the four decades following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, a period of sweeping political, social, and economic change. The book concentrates on those Japanese women who were outspoken critics of their society and the roles women were assigned in it, but also assesses the contributions women made to Japan during a period of rapid modernization.The struggle of Japanese women to gain political rights, the creation of a women''s reform movement, the involvement of women in the early socialistic movement, the protests of women textile workers who staged Japan''s first strikes, the evolution of the women''s movement into a literary movement, and a new view of Kanno Suga, an anarchist who was hanged by the Japanese government in 1911, are presented against the background of determined state intervention in the lives of women.The book concludes with a brief summary of the changing role of women in JaTrade Review"A classic example of the best uses of women's history. Sievers' analysis of the development of feminist consciousness during the Meiji era (1868-1912) brilliantly illuminates two movements in late nineteenth-century Japan: the lively growth of dissent in the struggle for justice and human rights and the increasing intrusion of the 'modernizing' Japanese state into individuals' private lives." -Barbara Molony ,Signs "It opens up new vista on Meiji Japan and provides us with important insights into how the radical wing of the feminist movement sought to deal with and transform the world of women in modern Japan." -F.G. Notehelfer ,Journal of Japanese Studies "Sievers' study is engrossing, meticulously documented, and informative... A contribution to both women's studies and Meiji history." -Catherine Broderick ,Japan QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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Book SynopsisThis text is based on extensive personal viewing of urban Chinese women and study of contemporary literature and articles in the periodical press that touched on the problems of rural women. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of women's lives including: girlhood, sexuality, marriage, and work.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Growing up female 2. The pleasures of adornment and the dangers of sexuality 3. making a friend: changing patterns of courtship 4. Marriage 5. Family relations 6. Divorce 7. Violence against women 9. Feminist voices Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisSpanning the century from the Taiping Rebellion through the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this book is a comprehensive history of women in modern China. Its historical scope is broad, touching upon most aspects of life and drawing upon little known Chinese and Japanese sources.Table of ContentsContents Fogel Joshua A. Mann Susan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Book SynopsisIn Shanghai, China's largest industrial centre prior to 1949, cotton was king and the majority of mill workers were women. This book presents detailed information on all aspects of the life of this group of urban workers.Trade Review'This book is much more than the historical monograph it appears to be, and should be widely read as women's history, as a study of the creation of an industrial labor force, and simply as a vivid documentary picture of the lives and times of the women ... The book is excellently constructed and written in a way that serves gradually to build up a full and fascinating picture of life and work in the mills ... For those who want a better understanding of what it meant to be a woman in early 20th-century China ... this is a chance not to be missed.'The China QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how it shaped their categories of experience.The women we meet in this study taught in isolated one- and two-room schoolhouses and in the migrant schools of the Depression years; many of them witnessed the profound upheavals brought about by the two world wars. Through the lens of their lives, the author examines the growth of state control over schools, the irrevocable impact of powerful economic and political changes on small-town life, and the patterns of racism that have divided California from the time of the earliest European settlement.This study challenges a number of assumptions about the lives and work of women teachers. It is often assumed, for example, that the work of women in schools has always been conTrade Review"A fascinating history of rural women teachers in California. Her major achievement is to successfully integrate genres that are too often separated: critical and feminist theory, life histories, the political economy of schooling, quantitative demography, and institutional history." -- David Tyack * Stanford University *Country Schoolwomen is feminist scholarship at its best..." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Womens's history and the history of women teachers; 2. Gender and the growth of the educational state: California, 1850-1940; 3. Culture, schools, and community: Tulare and Kings counties; 4. Subjugated knowledge: lives of women teachers, 1860-1920; 5. Memory and identity: lives of women teachers, 1920-1940; 6. The work of teaching in rural schools, 1920-1940; 7. Men take control, 1940-1950; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew's body in 20th-century art and literature.Table of Contents1. Ethnicities: why I write what I write 2. Love + marriage = death: STDs and AIDS in the modern world 3. Max Nordau, Sigmund Freud, and the question of conversion 4. Salome, syphilis, Sarah Bernhardt and the 'modern Jewess' 5. Zwetschkenbaum's competence: madness and the discourse of the Jews 6. Otto Weininger and Sigmund Freud: race and gender in the shaping of psychoanalysis 7. Sibling incest, madness, and the Jews 8. R. B. Kitaj's 'good bad' diasporism and the body in American Jewish post-modern art 8. Who is Jewish? The newest Jewish writing in German and Daniel Goldhagen Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisPrevious scholarship has presented a static picture of property inheritance in China, mainly because it has focused primarily on men, whose rights changed little throughout the Imperial and Republican periods. However, when our focus shifts to women, a very different and dynamic picture emerges.Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30. The consolidation in law of patrilineal succession in the Ming and Qing dynasties curtailed women's claims, but the adoption of the Civil Code and the gradual dismantling of patrilineal succession in the twentieth century greatly strengthened women's rights to inherit property.Through an examination of the changes in women's claims, the author argues that we can discern larger changes in property rights in general. Previous scholarship assumedTrade Review"This is an original and wholly new analysis of changes in women's inheritance rights in China. . . . With her mastery of the legal code and the language of casebooks, as well as her access to unique archival collections, Bernhardt's findings rest on an irreproachable mass of data; the book is a classic example of careful scholarship." -- Susan Mann * University of California, Davis *"Using research from 430 actual cases during the period covered . . . Bernhardt emphasizes how the laws were applied in practice rather than what those laws actually mandated. . . . As such, the book is a valuable addition to scholarship on Chinese history, and more specifically the complex history of Chinese women." -- History: Reviews of New Books"A particularly impressive contribution of this book is its sketch of long-term trends in Chinese inheritance law from the Song through Qing periods. . . . Bernhardt's findings here are important and raise many questions for social and cultural historians to tackle, both concerning the cultural environment that led to these legal innovations and the impact of them on the choices families mad as they maneuvered around the law. . . . Bernhardt has immersedherself in Chinese legal writings and excels at explicating judges' decisions." -- Journal of Asian Studies"Bernhardt's impressives study . . . will greatly facilitate comparative study of the concepts of family and property and takes research on legal reform in modern China to a new level." -- Choice"The book demonstrates the difficulties involved in changing norms embedded in a society over a long period of time. It also gives us insights into the problems when foreign concepts are introduced, as well as going into the importance of changes in inheritance rules for family relations, status, the economic situation, etc. Those who deal with issues involved in the introduction of ownership of property by women and rights of inheritance on the part of women in societies in which these concepts are still unknown should definitely read this book." -- Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture"Kathryn Bernhardt has written a highly readable and impressive book with much to recommend it. The scope of her analysis and the range of material she uses set a new high standard in the field. Many of her conclusions will be influential. . . ." -- JESHO"This superbly researched monograph explodes many myths about the inheritance of property in imperial and Republican China precisely because it focuses on women in the intergenerational transfer of property. Kathryn Bernhardt's many significant reinterpretations also rest on a mountain of new evidence from diverse archival and published sources." -- NAN NÜ"This is a fascinating, well-researched, and carefully argued study..." * China Review International *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The inheritance rights of daughters from the Song through the Qing; 2. The inheritance rights of widows from the song through the Qing; 3. Widows and patrilineal succession in the early republican period; 4. Property inheritance under the republican civil code; 5. Widows' inheritance under the republican code; 6. Daughters' inheritance rights under the republican code; 7. The property rights of concubines in the imperial and republican periods; Conclusion; References; Character list; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, who in their own language call themselves Tay Ñudzahui, people of the rain place. These people were among the most populous cultural and language groups of Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish conquest. This study focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750.The work is largely based on an extraordinary collection of primary sources, translated and analyzed by the author, that were written by Mixtecs in the roman alphabet from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. To complement this native-language corpus, the author has examined preconquest and early colonial pictorial writings, Spanish-language civil and trial records, and Nahuatl (Aztec) texts.The book addresses many interrelated topics, including writing, language, sociopolitical organization, local government, social and gender relations, land tenure, trade, rebellion, Trade Review"The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca is a book for scholars, but all readers will be informed and encouraged to learn more about the ancient and important cultures still found among native peoples of Mexico." -- History"This groundbreaking study will be an essential acquisition for any library specializing in colonial Mexico." -- CHOICE"This book contains important insights for a multidiciplinary audience; those interested in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica, as well as Latin American history, ethnohistory, colonial studies, and gender studies will find much to consider and build upon in this exceptional work." -- Sixteenth Century Journal"This is a work of high seriousness, impeccable, even awesome scholarship in arcane sources, powerful analytic drive, and straightforward, comprehensible exposition." -- Journal of Social History"This is the sort of work that requres updating and fine-tuning, not replacement. Future editions should add even more luster to a book that is sure to become a classic." -- Canadian Journal of History"This is an extraordinary work. . . . Kevin Terraciano is extremely well read in the studies of Mexican indigenous cultures and has a masterly knowledge of the Mixtecs." -- History"This is a work of very great importance, and its combination of cutting-edge research and readable style will likely make it a classic. Terraciano attempts to do for the Mixtecs what James Lockhart has accomplished for the Nahuas of central Mexico: to provide an 'inside view' of the colonial Indian culture using contemporary documents written by Indians in their own language." -- John K. Chance * Arizona State University *

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Book SynopsisIn the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the Jewish Question, more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Safran introduces the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their own time, and she situates Jewish and non-Jewish writers together in the context they shared.For nineteenth-century writers and readers, successful fictional characters were types, literary creations that both mirrored and influenced the trajectories of real lives. Stories about Jewish assimilators and converts often juxtaposed two contrasting types: the sincere reformer or true convert who has experienced a complete transformation, and the secreTrade Review"Intelligently and creatively, Safran compares closely the work of the Jewish author, Grigory Bogrov; the Polish author, Eliza Orzeszkowa; and the Russian writers Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov with characterizations of Jews found in Russian letters throughout the whole of the century. In doing so, she demonstrates a familiarity and comfort with both critical themes of pre-Soviet Russian literature and literary criticism and with the broader context of Jewish life in the empire. Accordingly, her work is of genuine interest to students of Russian literature as well as for those committed to the investigation of both Jewish and Russian cultural history in the Tsarist empire." -- The Russian Review"Writ[ten] in a clear, engaging and distinctive style. . . . [Safran] shares her insights on many important aspects of Jewish identity, issues of national identity, acculturation, assimilation, conversion, and anti-Semitism, among others, while she studies her four writers and their literary milieu. For academic libraries." -- Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"[Safran's] work makes a serious contribution to our understanding of the complex nexus of Jew and Gentile in late Imperial Russia . . . .[It] should be read by anyone interested in the 'Jewish question,' national identities, and literature in the late Russian Empire. " -- Canadian Slavonic PapersTable of ContentsIllustrations A note on transliteration Introduction 1. An unprecedented type of human being Grigory Bogrov 2. The nation and the wide world Eliza Orzeszkowa 3. Jew as text, Jew as reader Nikolai Leskov 4. Mutable, permutable, approximate, and relative Anton Chekhov Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1929, Robert Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd''s Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture was destined to become a sociological point of reference for the quality of life in an average American town in the 1920s. Their Middletown in Transition, a 1937 restudy of the same communitynow known to be Muncie, Indianaprovided a second point of reference on community values in the midst of the great American depression. Achieving the status of cultural benchmarks, these two books have generated an enormous secondary literature on Muncie/Middletown, including a two-volume restudy by Theodore Caplow, published in the 1980s, and a series of six documentary films.Back to Middletown differs from the numerous other investigations and analyses of one of the most famous community studies in the history of sociology. The author, an Italian sociologist, examines the complete Middletown saga through the distinctive lens of an outsider, tracing the character anTrade Review"The Lynds' works became sociological classics . . . and gave rise to a subgenre of sociology called Munciology. In this volume, Caccamo reanalyzes the Lynds' findings and reports on her extended visit to Muncie in the late 1980s. She is an objective observer truly distanced from the cultural and religious biases that tainted the initial works. This almost anthropological study of Muncie is an excellent companion to the Lynds' works and serves as a great cultural study of small-town America in the late twentieth century."—Library Journal"Caccamo birngs to 'the Muncian tribe and its sociological investigators' the fresh perspective of a cosmopolitan European. . . . A graceful, humane, and provocative work, Back to Middletown is a model of scholarship that is also art."—ChoiceTable of Contents1. Robert S. Lynd: portrait of an author; 2. Middletown I: eclipse of the community; 3. Middletown II: what transition?; 4. Muncie and Middletown; 5. Middletown III; the story continues; 6. The nineties in Middletown; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain).Trade Review“This is an original and extraordinarily refined work on a question that lies somewhere in the space between history and philosophy. . . . The author handles with equal ease the range of sources, both modern and medieval. His extremely elegant organization of the material reflects, at a very advanced level, a sense of style commensurate with the sophistication of his thinking.”—Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale University

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Book SynopsisBuilding on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the 20th century.Trade Review"Free of jargon, full of interesting anecdotes, thoughtful, well-written, and short, Cadres and Kin deserves serious consideration as an introductory text on modern China. . . . The book is clearly informed by both recent anthropological theory and the latest ethnographic and historical work on 20th-century China." -- China Journal"This brief but thoughtful book . . . is unusual in combining a picture of the post-1978 village with a longer narrative of twentieth-century state building and village formation." -- American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations and measures 1. A topography of the past: shaping a township landscape in the early twentieth century 2. Alliance and antagonism: family associations in an era of insecurity 3. Creating a new village order: revolutionizing identity through liberation and land reform 4. getting organized: struggling with collectivism 5. Village as enterprise: corporate community management in the Deng Era 6. A topography of the present: shaping a village landscape in the late twentieth century Appendix: Qiaolou Village Compact Notes Character list Index.

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Book SynopsisA social, legal, and intellectual history of divorce in Japan over the last four centuries, during much of which Japan had one of the highest divorce rates in the world.Trade Review"...This book is a must-read for social scientists with research interests in the areas of gender, marriage and the family, and demography." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"In providing a detailed analysis of the gender dynamics of marriage, moreover, [Fuess] illuminates the shifting position of women within the family and marriage, pertinent to many discussions of contemporary Japanese society." -- Pacific Affairs"[This book] is a rich resource that will provide the starting point for much new research and will be widely cited by anyone writing on divorce and marriage in Japan." -- Journal of Japanese Studies"In Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000, Harald Fuess presents a careful and very accessible description of the social and political context of Japan's historically very high rates of divorce, their subsequent decline to very low levels, and their recent return to levels on par with most other industrialized societies. This book is a welcome addition to the very limited English-language literature on divorce in Japan....the central themes in this historical overview of divorce in Japan should be of broad interest to all sociologists." -- American Journal of Sociology"This fine interdisciplinary treatment of divorce should be useful to those in family studies, comparative social sciences, and institutional and legal historians, in addition to the obvious contribution it makes to Japanese area studies, for undergraduate and graduate courses alike." -- Contemporary Sociology"Divorce in Japan is an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Japan, not just for what it reveals about divorce, marriage, and family, but for the comprehensive use of materials and its theoretical underpinnings. Fuess is to be commended for his meticulous methods of interpretation and his expression of compelling findings in a clear, unequivocal prose style." -- Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xiii Note on Japanese Names xv 1. The Forgotten History of Japanese Divorce 1 When Japan Led the World in Divorce, 1--Competing Interpretations of Traditional High Divorce Rates, 6--A New History of Japanese Divorce, 9--Changing Definitions of Marriage and Divorce, 11--Sources, 15 2. For the Sake of the House: Edo-Period Patterns, Perceptions, and Precedents 18 Divorce Across Status and Domain Boundaries, 21--"No- Fault" Divorce in Popular Plays, 25--Magistrates in Support of Household Authority, 29--Merciful Buddhist Temples: An Alternative Venue for Divorce Negotiations, 39--Household Status Versus Sex, 44 3. Testing a Spouse: The Trial Marriage System 47 Meiji Marriage Ambiguities, 48--The Frequency of Divorce in the Meiji Era, 57--Multiple Remarriage Opportunities, 67-- The Trial Marriage System and Household Survival, 72 4. Unsuitable to the Family Tradition? Popular Divorce Customs in the 1870s 75 Obtaining a Customary Consent Divorce, 76--The Terms of Customary Consent Divorce, 82--Life After Divorce, 96-- Evidence of Female Divorce Initiatives, 96--Early Modern Divorce Revisited, 98 5. Between French Law and Japanese Customs: Codifying Divorce in Meiji Japan 100 Intellectual Interpretations of Divorce in the 1870s and the 1880s, 102--The Napoleonic Code and the Early Codification Process, 1873-1887, 105--The Backlash Against "French" Divorce, 1887-1892, 109--Reaffirming the Dual Divorce System, 1892- 1898, 110--The Civil Code of 1898: Divorce, Family, and Gender, 114 6. When Marriage Was on the Rise: Declining Divorce Rates, 1898-1940 119 Legislation and the Precipitous Drop in Divorce, 1897-1899, 120--The Gradual Decline, 1900-1940, 128 7. Forward to the Past: A Historical Perspective on Japanese Divorce After World War II 144 Legislative Reform During the American Occupation, 145-- The 1960s Revolution in Japanese Divorce Behavior, 152--The Return of the Divorcing Society in the 1990s, , 161 Appendix 169 Notes 175 Select Bibliography 211 Index 223 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Divorce Japan History, Domestic relations Japan

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Book SynopsisThis book, which draws on a rich array of primary sources and archival materials, offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. It explores French policies and attitudes toward Jewish refugees from three interrelated vantage points: government policy, public opinion, and the role of the French Jewish community.The author demonstrates that Jewish refugees in France were not treated in the same manner as other foreigners, in part because of foreign policy considerations and in part because Jewish refugees had a distinctive socioeconomic profile. By examining the socioeconomic and political factors that informed French refugee policy in the 1930''s, the author presents overwhelming evidence that Vichy''s anti-Jewish measures were not merely the work of a few antisemitic zealots in the administration, nor did they stem solely from the desire of Marshal Pétain''s government to find scapegoats for the miliTrade Review"Placed within the broad context of French and European history, this highly original, nuanced book is a valuable resource not only for specialists in the Third Republic but also for scholars of the 1930's, World War II, and the Holocaust." -Carol Fink,Ohio State UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Refugee policy and middle-class protest during the Great Depression, 1933-36 3. The conservative crackdown of 1934-35 4. The great invasion I, 1933-36 5. Loyalties in conflict: French Jewry and the refugee crisis, 1933-May 1936 6. Refugee policy during the popular front era 7. Breaking the impasse: colonial and agricultural schemes during the popular front era 8. The deluge: from the Anschluss to Evian 9. The impact of appeasement 10. The crosscurrents of 1939 11. The missed opportunity: refugee policy in wartime 12. The great invasion II, 1936-40 13. The politics of frustration: the remaking of the Jewish relief effort, 1936-40 14. The path to Vichy: continuities and discontinuities in Jewish refugee policy 15. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis ambitious work confronts the complex question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by studying their communities in seven countries in the Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. It also considers the special case of the many Latin American Nikkei who have returned to Japan in recent decades to seek employment. The contributors draw upon a range of disciplines to present a multifaceted portrait of people of Japanese descent in the Americas, the destination of 90 percent of Japanese emigrants. Thus, for example, the reader is able to view the Peruvian Japanese experience through the eyes of an anthropologist, a demographer/historian, and a journalistall of whom are Peruvians of Japanese descent. Among the main questions explored in New Worlds, New Lives are: What is the historical background and current status of Nikkei society in a given country? Are there any common attributes the Trade Review"This extremely important book marks a definite'breakthrough' in making a comparative analysis of a single nationality group and its descendants in several new countries. No other book encompasses such a broad, yet very detailed, perspective, and all scholars of Japanese immigrants to the Americas will welcome this new direction in immigration history."—Brian Hayashi, Kyoto University"New Worlds, New Lives does a great job of exploring the complex histories, and changing demographics, of the Japanese diaspora in only 384 pages...The volume is definately worth $24.95."—The Hawaii Herald"Its real strength is its view into the contemporary communities of Nikkei in various host nations, and into Japan as host to its descendants wh have become gaijin."—American Ethnologist

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Book SynopsisA history of the society and economy of Sao Paulo from its origins to the introduction of coffee in the mid-19th century.Trade Review"[T]his excellent book deserves the careful consideration not only of scholars of slavery and Brazilian economic history, but students of the wider Atlantic World as well."—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"There is not one thing wrong with this book. Luna and Klein have done impressive research in previously unused sources. They present their findings in clear, unpretentious prose....All in all, Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo is a model monograph, nothing less than we have come to expect from its distinguished authors."EH.Net

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Book SynopsisThis is a poineering study of the 19th centruy Hasidic movement as shown through the life of one of its most controversial and influential leaders, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhin (1796-1850). The dramatic episodes of his life are echoed by the contradictory and highly critical opinions of his personal charachter and leadership.Trade Review"Assaf is a scholar who knows how to manage vast bits of detail but also how to fit them together in a coherent and plausible whole. . . . [He] has used the only possible method for sifting among sources, that of common sense. He has done so with great success and produced a first-rate biography."–AJS Review"This is a path-breaking and thorough study of an important and neglected chapter of modern Jewish history."American Historical Review"It is a very important addition to the history of Hasidism and the study of East European Jewish history." -- Religious Studies Review

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that in "Christian Europe," the question of the enemy has for millennia been structured by the historical relation of Europe to both Arab and Jew. It provides a philosophical understanding of the background of the current conflict in the Middle East.Trade Review"In this unique, original, and breathtakingly new work, Anidjar follows the figure of the enemy, as it informs arguments in many discursive areas: literature and philosophy to be sure, but also politics, theology, the constructions of race and ethnicity, history, etc. By showing in what ways the figure of the enemy is intertwined with construction of the Jew, the Arab, the Moslem, the Christian, the European, Anidjar continually challenges the reader to rethink concepts of and habitus related to the concept of enemy. Each chapter consists of cogent analyses, an illustration of relations among works and fields, and insightful remarks." -Lawrence R. Schehr,University of Illinois

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the decision of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici to create a ghetto in Florence, and explains how a Jewish community developed out of that forced population transfer.Trade Review"Thanks to this well-documented work by Stefanie B. Siegmund, we now have a reliable account of . . . the creation of the florentine ghetto in 1570." -- Brendan Dooley * International Journal of the Classical Tradition *"This is an original, pioneering book . . . " -- The Times Literary Supplement"This book has been lauded and recognized by two prestigious prizes and is already being cited as marking a new path in the study of Jewish-Christian relations in premodern Europe . . . the book is nothing if not stimulating and will remain the touchstone for all future research into Florentine Jewish history in this period." -- Renaissance Quarterly"A richly-detailed study . . . The ghetto, whatever the specific circumstances of its creation, represented order at the expense of liberty. But Siegmund has made it more difficult to generalize indiscriminately and facilely." -- Catholic Historical Review"Boldly revisionist in its analysis of Jewish segregation, Siegmunds highly nuanced argument dovetails nicely with an emerging scholarly consensus regarding state formation and social discipline in early modern Italy." -- CHOICE"Ground-breaking and comprehensive in scope, The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence offers readers an intriguing glimpse into an ofttimes overlooked aspect of Italian and Jewish history." -- History in Reviewx

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Book SynopsisA history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, this book focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750.Trade Review"The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca is a book for scholars, but all readers will be informed and encouraged to learn more about the ancient and important cultures still found among native peoples of Mexico." -- History"This groundbreaking study will be an essential acquisition for any library specializing in colonial Mexico." -- CHOICE"This book contains important insights for a multidiciplinary audience; those interested in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mesoamerica, as well as Latin American history, ethnohistory, colonial studies, and gender studies will find much to consider and build upon in this exceptional work." -- Sixteenth Century Journal"This is a work of high seriousness, impeccable, even awesome scholarship in arcane sources, powerful analytic drive, and straightforward, comprehensible exposition." -- Journal of Social History"This is the sort of work that requres updating and fine-tuning, not replacement. Future editions should add even more luster to a book that is sure to become a classic." -- Canadian Journal of History"This is an extraordinary work. . . . Kevin Terraciano is extremely well read in the studies of Mexican indigenous cultures and has a masterly knowledge of the Mixtecs." -- History"This is a work of very great importance, and its combination of cutting-edge research and readable style will likely make it a classic. Terraciano attempts to do for the Mixtecs what James Lockhart has accomplished for the Nahuas of central Mexico: to provide an 'inside view' of the colonial Indian culture using contemporary documents written by Indians in their own language." -- John K. Chance * Arizona State University *

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive study of beggars' culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a reference to the resurgence of beggars in China today.Trade Review"This is an important read to anyone interested in topics associated with Chinese urban studies, Chinese labor, or Chinese underclasses." -- The Chinese Historical Review"Lu's study will serve as a useful point of departure for further research into the world of the Chinese underclass. It also has much of interest for other aspects of Chinese society." -- Journal of Asian Studies"...an elegantly written book easily accessible to a broad range of readers..." -- The China Journal"Faced with a lack of reliable data, Lu has chosen to employ as broad and variegated a host of sources as possible... all intermingle[d] to illustrate a history both colorful and entertaining. The amount of material uncovered is quite astonishing and easily proves Hanchao Lu's most salient point: beggars may have been socially marginal, but they did play an important role in the cultural imagination of late-imperial and Republican China... Lu presents the reader with a view of social life that is often overlooked, and his book plays an important role in reminding us of some of the costs of China's search for modernity." -- China Review International"This is a well-researched, clearly presented, and carefully analyzed book, and a wonderful narrative history of beggars in modern China... In addition to a profound analysis of beggar issues, Lu gives us colorful stories of beggars struggling for their survival. This book offers us greater knowledge of lower-class people and their social environments, and should be recommended to scholars of China, students who are interested in China, and general readers." -- International Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsContents @toc4:Illustrations and Tables iii Preface iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. On the Rivers and Lakes 000 2. Sympathy Versus Antipathy 000 3. Legend Has It 000 4. Coping with Mendicants 000 5. Ruling the Street 000 6. The Wisdom of Mendicancy 000 7. Men's Limbs and Women's Mouths 000 8. Chairman Mao Picked on a Beggar 000 Conclusion 000 @toc4:Character List 000 Appendix: The Sound of Mendicity 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000 @fmct:Illustrations and Tables @fmh1:Map @fmli:1. China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 000 @fmh1:Figures @fmli:1. Beggar of the Longhua Pagoda 000 2. Beggar figurines 000 3. Worshipping a patron saint 000 4. Emperor Zhu 000 5. Han Xin 000 6. Wu Zixu 000 7. The Eight Immortals 000 8. Beggar foster father 000 9. A beggar's "waist plaquette" 000 10. Children at a Beijing soup kitchen 000 11. A beggar headman 000 12. A night watchman 000 13. Beggars on government duty 000 14. The God of Fortune 000 15. New Year's spectacle 000 16. A funeral procession 000 17. Sidewalk petitioner 000 18. Snake charming 000 19. Mother and child 000 20. Competing with a dog for food 000 21. Lai Dongjin in Mao's hometown 000 @fmh1:Tables @fmli:1.1 Vagrants in the 1931 Yangzi River Flood 000 1.2 Shanghai Beggars' Previous Occupations and Incomes 000

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