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Cambridge University Press Science and Civilisation in China Volume 7 The Social Background Part 2 General Conclusions and Reflections
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Cambridge University Press Asian Voices in a PostColonial Age
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Cambridge University Press Intimate Strangers Friendship Exchange and Pacific Encounters Critical Perspectives on Empire
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£999.99
Cambridge University Press Empire Barbarism and Civilisation
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Cambridge University Press Chica da Silva
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Cambridge University Press The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities
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British Library Publishing Taking to the Air
Book SynopsisThroughout history, the visibility of airborne objects from the ground has made for a spectacle of flight, with sizeable crowds gathering for eighteenth-century balloon launches and early twentieth-century air shows. Taking to the Air tells the history of flight through the eye of the spectator, and later, the passenger.
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John Murray Press The Gaol
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary human story of London's most infamous prisonTrade Review'Gripping . . . Grovier's treatment of the material organisation of the place is excellent . . . Newgate's role in the evolution of London, in the creation of crime in the public imagination, in the development of the concept of the prison, is unmatched, and Grovier relates it compellingly' * Daily Telegraph *'The author has a keen eye for the grisly detail . . . In many ways The Gaol is an upmarket extension of The Newgate Calender, the blood-and-guts, five-volume blockbuster full of all the gory details, that was on every 18th Century bookshelf' * Mail on Sunday *'A story of eyewatering misery . . . In a clear readable style that takes the reader at a pleasantly trotting pace through the centuries of oppression and inhumanity' * Evening Standard *'Beguiling lyricism . . . He is interested in Newgate's place in the collective psyche, 'a more intimate story' than historians have managed . . . vividly evoked' * Sunday Telegraph *'Grovier revels in gory tales and colourful characters linked to the place' * Sunday Telegraph *'Grovier's study is a sparkling tribute to a grim cultural phenomenon' * Daily Express *'Kelly Grovier's brisk and well-organised book...gives a hauntingly clear picture of the place, its inmates, the staff and, of particular delight to the reviewer, the slang they used' * The Daily Telegraph: 'Pick of the Paperbacks', Toby Clements *A terrific read * Scotsman *'Kelly Grovier's colourful history traces how this incubator of horror and cruelty became such an iconic presence within popular history, combining a wealth of gruesome detail with portraits of the many characters associated with it' * Metro *'Lively history...[Grovier] has a sharp eye for the vivid anecdote and skilfully situates his colourful, tragic and often grim and ghastly characters in the economic, political and social landscape from the Middles Ages to the end of Victoria's reign' * BBC History Magazine *'Grovier's book brings together the lives of forgotten figures and re-examines the prison's links with more famous individuals' * Publishing News *'Reading Grovier reminds us of the desperation, corruption and crime that swirled around Newgate' * Sue Baker, Publishing News *'A roiling, boiling, seething stew of passion and conflict.' * Courier Mail, Australia *'Grovier introduces a gallery of rogues and tells their fates with relish' * Daily Mail *An enjoyable book * Morning Star *'The text is rich in illustrative stories and annecdotes' * Contemporary Review *'There are dozen of fascinating folk legends packed into this book' * New Books *'A thrilling history of a very English goal ... this book is so good, you'll want to keep your copy under lock and key,' * Birmingham Sunday Mercury *'Although the subject of the book is quite grim, the author tells us the history in an entertaining and easy manner which makes us want to read on... a valuable piece of research' * Ryedale Gazette & Herald *
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The History Press Ltd Hellfire
Book SynopsisThe first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous membersTrade Review“… A constant pleasure.” - Mark Amory, The Spectator. * The Spectator *'a fascinating and well-told account of an extraordinary group of figures in interwar Oxford, including Waugh, Anthony Powell and the political journalist Claud Cockburn.’ - The Article
£19.00
The History Press Ltd The Guide Association in Cornwall
Book SynopsisThe Guide Association in Cornwall
£8.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Twentieth Century Paris 19001950 A Literary Guide
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwentieth Century Paris is stuffed full of fascinating information about the denizens of Paris during the first half of the century [...] also contains a number of illustrations and maps, so it really is the perfect guidebook. * Shiny New Books *a roll call of creativity, based on wide research, with a wealth of anecdote. * The Spectator *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Author’s Note Map of Arrondissements Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Gay Paree 3. Down and Out 4. City of Exiles 5. Flappers and Amazons 6. The Lost Generation 7. Patrons and Artists 8. Conclusion French Expressions Haunts and Locations Chronology Further Reading Index
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Cassock and the Crown
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McGill-Queen's University Press Nationalism from the Margins Italians in Alberta
Book SynopsisPresents a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian migration to Alberta and British Columbia, this work documents a multicultural experience and vision of Canada that long preceded the official policy of 1971.Trade Review"An important contribution to research. By examining life histories in an everyday environment we get a clearer picture as to the process that all immigrants must undergo. Wood's results emphasize the importance of self agency and the limits to which any official policy can go to bring about assimilation or integration." Herman Ganzevoort, Department of History, University of Calgary "An ambitious book. Drawing in several scholarly sources, Wood weaves a narrative of epic proportions, presents new scholarship on the Italian-Canadian experience in western Canada, and provides an original regional perspective." Tamara Palmer Seiler, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary
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McGill-Queen's University Press A Bare and Impolitic Right
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New
Book SynopsisExplores the question of how a culture is born. The author compares the historical itineraries of New World collectivities, which were driven by freedom and sovereignty, and finds differences as well as commonalities in their formation and evolution. He also considers myths and strategies devised by the elites to unite and mobilize populations.Trade Review"A masterful work on the evolution of new collectivities and their preoccupations with identity, in which the originality of the thinking and the elegance of the style are matched by extensive research and the topicality of the theme. This plea for comparative history takes a new look at Quebec society and the path it has taken in the world." Governor General's Literary Awards JuryTable of ContentsPreface to the English Translation vii Translators Note xi Preface xv 1 The Comparative History of New Collectivities and Founding Cultures 3 2 Why Compare Oneself? 25 3 A New Old Country? The Formation and Transformations of Culture and Nation in Quebec 58 4 The Growth of National Consciousness in Mexico and Latin America 148 5 Political Emancipation and National Identity in Australia 182 6 Other Pathways: Canada, New Zealand, and the United States 261 7 Collective Paths, Discursive Strategies: A Model 307 Conclusion 332 Notes 339 Bibliography 369 Index 417
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Beacon Press Julian Bonds Time to Teach
Book SynopsisA masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today’s activists in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Julian Bond sought to dismantle the perception of the civil rights movement as a peaceful and respectable protest that quickly garnered widespread support. Through his lectures, Bond detailed the ground-shaking disruption the movement caused, its immense unpopularity at the time, and the bravery of activists (some very young) who chose to disturb order to pursue justice.Beginning with the movement’s origins in the early twentieth century, Bond tackles key events such as the Montgomery bus boycott, the Little Rock Nine, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, Mississippi voter registration, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, the
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Beacon Press The Good Death An Exploration of Dying in America
Book SynopsisFollowing the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying. Neumann struggled to put her life back in order and found herself haunted by a question: Was her father’s death a good death?The way we talk about dying and the way we actually die are two very different things, she discovered, and many of us are shielded from what death actually looks like. To gain a better understanding, Neumann became a hospice volunteer and set out to discover what a good death is today. She attended conferences, academic lectures, and grief sessions
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New York University Press Filipino American Faith in Action
Book SynopsisExplores Filipino American religious institutions as essential locations for empowermentTrade Review;In this academic page turner Gonzalez blends rich ethnographic descriptions with theoretical sophistication. Filipino American Faith in Action is THE book on the importance of religion for the Filipino migrant community. Gonzalez breaks new ground in the emerging field of religion and immigration with his use of diverse theoretical tools and compelling narratives. A must read. -- Lois Ann Lorentzen,author of The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, the Environment and DevelopmentBreaks new ground in Asian American Studies and more broadly in migration studies by illustrating the transnational and intergenerational civic engagement of migrants through religion. . . . An eminently important study that expands our knowledge of Filipino migrant settlement in the United States. -- Rhacel Salazar Parrenas,author of The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and GlobalizationThe & missionized and & diasporized Christians of the global South are here in our midst . . . transforming the social, religious, and political landscape in places they are finding receptive soils, and . . . challenging us to think and act in new ways. Gonzalezs work speaks of this reality not in abstraction, but through the breathing stories of Filipino diaspora Christian communities in San Francisco, California. Finally, a book that I have been waiting for has arrived. -- Eleazar S. Fernandez,Professor of Constructive Theology, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Minnesota
£66.50
New York University Press In The Company Of Black Men The African
Book SynopsisSpanning three centuries, Craig Wilder's study shows that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African American religious, political and social culture flourished so successfully in New York City.Trade ReviewA beautifully researched, subtly argued exploration of the moral and intellectual life of New Yorks African American community in its first two hundred years. As Wilder shows how African societies provided a foundation for black religion, politics, and cultural institutions, he opens a new window on New York history. We hear the voice and aspirations of black New Yorkers as we have never heard them before. Written with verve, In the Company of Black Men repeatedly rewards its readers with fresh insights and provocative arguments that leaves one thinking long after it has been set aside. -- Elizabeth Blackmar,Columbia UniversityIn this groundbreaking and superbly written work Craig Wilder provides a gendered and richly textured discussion of the African origins of black political consciousness and moral traditions in the United States. Through a skillful comparative discussion of African associations in North America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Africa he demonstrates the connections between African systems of values and beliefs, masculinity and the black public sphere. This book is essential reading in African American history, Diaspora studies and American studies. -- Irma Watkins-Owens,author of Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community 1900-1930Though stony the road they trod, a small band of men developed and passed on an ethos of mutuality and collectivism brought from Africa. America owes a great debt to those men, and scholars owe a great debt to Craig Wilder, who has combined vast research and keen intelligence to tell their story. Wilders work will force a new look at a familiar landscape. Imaginean African city at the base of the Hudson! -- Noel Ignatiev,author of How the Irish Became WhiteIn the historiography on blacks in the colonial and antebellum periods, Craig Steven Wilders In the Company of Black Men stands out as one of the finest works of scholarship in the last decade. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Wilder explores cultural expression with and through African societies in New York City. . . . He follows them from their origin, through their heyday, to their decline as capitalist culture overwhelmed the voluntary tradition * Book News *
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Duke University Press Crossing the Line
Book SynopsisSuitable for the scholars of American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism, this title uses cultural narratives of passing to illuminate both the contradictions of race and the deployment of such contradictions for a variety of needs, interests, and desires.Trade Review“Crossing the Line offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men“Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, Crossing the Line is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms.”— Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative FormTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949 4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture 5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Pictures and Progress
Book SynopsisFeaturing more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photographers, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.Trade Review“I recommend Pictures and Progress for anyone who enjoys reading about the history of photography, African American history, or those who like to consider new ideas about photography as an art form. . . . [O]riginality, fresh ideas and a good pace of content make Pictures and Progress an excellent read.” - Mary Desjarlais, The Photogram“I recommend Pictures and Progress for anyone who enjoys reading about the history of photography, African American history, or those who like to consider new ideas about photography as an art form. . . . [O]riginality, fresh ideas and a good pace of content make Pictures and Progress an excellent read.” -- Mary Desjarlais * Photogram *“Pictures and Progress is an edited volume of essays that underscores the role of photography in the production of African American identity during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.... Its contributors are skillful scholars from diverse fields who employ a variety of critical practices to call attention to the cultural, social, and political aspects of early African American photography. These authors seek to disrupt the familiarity of photographs – more a means of persuasion than of proof – and emphasize the plurality of photographic practice during the ante- and postbellum periods.... Pictures and Progress is certainly recommended for art libraries that specialize in the history of photography or visual and material culture studies.” - Molly E. Dotson, Art Library Society of North America“Pictures and Progress is an edited volume of essays that underscores the role of photography in the production of African American identity during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.... Its contributors are skillful scholars from diverse fields who employ a variety of critical practices to call attention to the cultural, social, and political aspects of early African American photography. These authors seek to disrupt the familiarity of photographs – more a means of persuasion than of proof – and emphasize the plurality of photographic practice during the ante- and postbellum periods.... Pictures and Progress is certainly recommended for art libraries that specialize in the history of photography or visual and material culture studies.” -- Molly E. Dotson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“With its emphasis on the often radical roles that black sitters and makers assumed in the history of photography, Pictures and Progress offers a bold approach to the study of American visual culture, one that places black agency at its center. Its intriguing and persuasive essays elucidate the importance of photography to the creation of free, black personhood in the 19th and early-20th centuries and reveal the myriad and sometimes surprising ways that such hands sought to wield “the pencil of nature” in an effort to assert self-possessed, and therefore revolutionary, subjectivities during an era in which the dominant culture preferred to represent them as otherwise.”—Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century“[A] nuanced collection of essays. . . . that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of African Americans’ uses of photography in public dialogue by and about African Americans in the postemancipation era.” -- Tammy S. Gordon * History: Reviews of New Books *“Pictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death, beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography.”—Deborah Willis, New York University“Pictures and Progress is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on African American photography. The contributors have painstakingly revisited a moment in time when African Americans considered still-photography liberating.” -- Christopher P. Lehman * Biography *“[T]his volume… will appeal equally to historians of photography and of the United States. Together, the essays in this book emphasize the act of thoughtful, visual scrutiny coupled with the desire to use photographs to make sense of a past that has often been overlooked.” -- Jasmine Alinder * Journal of Southern History *"[A] novel and often revelatory study of photography and black agency that will quickly become a foundational volume for scholars of U.S. photographic history." -- Martin A. Berger * Journal of American History *“All the contributions leave readers with ideas worth mulling over and researching further…. Highly recommended.” -- C. Chiarenza * Choice *"Pictures and Progress offers an important interdisciplinary analysis of the closely linked histories of photography and African American subjecthood." -- Megan Driscoll * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Pictures and Progress / Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith 1 1. "A More Perfect Likeness": Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation / Laura Wexler 18 2. "Rightly Viewed": Theorizations of the Self in Frederick Douglass's Lecture on Pictures / Ginger Hill 41 3. Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and White / Augusta Rohrbach 83 Snapshot 1. Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith 101 4. Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney 109 5. Who's Your Mama?: "White" Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman 132 6. Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity / Ray Sapirstein 167 Snapshot 2. Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith 204 7. Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other "Perfidious Influences" / Suzanne Schneider 211 8. Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures / Maurice O. Wallace 244 Snapshot 3. Unfixing the Frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith 267 9. "Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith 274 10. Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive / Leigh Raiford 299 Snapshot 4. The Photographer's Touch: J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith 321 11. No More Auction Block for Me! / Cheryl Finley 329 Bibliography 349 Contributors 369 Index 373
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Fordham University Press Pragmatism in the Americas
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is indispensable reading for students and scholars of pragmatism as well as those working in Hispanic philosophy. Highly recommended." -Choice "Pragmatism in the Americas examines new and unexplored intersections between American philosophy and Spanish and Latin American thought, advancing a deeper understanding of the Hispanic World's philosophical contribution to and relationship with the evolution of Western thought." -- -Bernardo Cantens Moravian College "This book holds real promise for awakening North American philosophers to the enormous breadth of Spanish-language Pragmatist philosophy. This is one of the best contributions to the advancement of American philosophy in a long time." -- -David O'Hara Augustana College "This collection provides the definitive resource, long overdue, on 'American' philosophy in a full sense. And the essays are full of surprises, detailing both the history of pragmatism's reception in the hispanic world, and the commonalities and differences between the Latin American and north American approaches. They also explain the multiple reasons philosophy itself today more than ever needs this tradition in order to resuscitate its crisis-ridden methodology and its standing in the public domain." -- -Linda Alcoff Hunter College, CUNY
£25.19
Fordham University Press In the Name of Italy Nation Family and
Book SynopsisExamines justice, nationalism, gender, and patriotism in Fascist Italy through the lens of a 1931 Administrative Court case related to surname italianization in Italy’s Adriatic borderlands.Trade Review"This book tells a fascinating story, one that needs to be told." -- -Nancy Wingfield Northern Illinois University "In the name of Italy offers a useful case study of the continuities found in the administrative machinery of Italian fascist regime and a provocative example of the politics of naming." -American Historical Review "The seven chapters of this volume, in addition to the introduction and conclusion, are followed by a list of thoroughly written bibliography and an index of names and important terms discussed, which make this book an indispensable research tool for both novice and expert scholars of the period." -Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies "I found this material to be both fresh and interesting." -- -Alexander De Grand North Carolina State University
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Fordham University Press Racial Worldmaking The Power of Popular Fiction
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law.Trade Review"In a book that pays equal attention to the protocols and history of genre reading and to contemporary critical theories of race, Mark Jerng shows how techniques of worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy and attention to setting as site of literary innovation define textual and interpretive strategies for producing race at levels other than biological differences or overtly racialized characters or authors, shifting the analysis of race and racism away from visual epistemology to allow them to be understood as embedded in fictional worlds." -- -Thomas Foster author of The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory "Racial Worldmaking meets the irresistible demand for scholarship that recognizes the central role of perceiving and speculating about race in American literature and culture. By situating race as a structuring principle within legal doctrines, literary traditions, and economic philosophies, Jerng interrogates the fictions that buttress dominant racial ideologies and calls attention to the imaginative work performed by thinkers who take racism seriously. Racial Worldmaking moves beyond disciplinary conventions to apply lessons learned from critical race theories and advance vital lines of inquiry inaugurated by Black and Asian American intellectuals." -- -andre carrington author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Racial Worldmaking Part I. Yellow Peril Genres Chapter 1. Worlds of Color Chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization Part II. Plantation Romance Chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War Chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception Part III. Sword and Sorcery Chapter 5. The “Facts” of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds Chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism Part IV. Alternate History Chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation Chapter 8. World War II and Uncertain Forms of Racial Organization Conclusion: Towards an Anti-racist Racial Worldmaking Notes Index
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The Swedenborg Society Distant Voices Sketches of a Swedenborgian World
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Aboriginal Studies Press The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous
Book SynopsisThis book presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective. Building on the foundational work of Harry Lourandos, the book critically examines and challenges traditional approaches which have presented Indigenous Australian pasts as static and tethered to ecological rationalism.The book reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of long-term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment. It encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with, and constructed their worlds. It solicits a deeper understanding of the contemporary political and social context of research and the insidious impacts of colonialist philosophies. In short, it concerns people: both past and present. Ultimately, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies looks beyond the stereotype of Aboriginal
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Aboriginal Studies Press Singing the Coast
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Goose Lane Editions Tracking Doctor Lonecloud
Book SynopsisTracking Dr. Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper, by Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum ethnologist, is a book that includes the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud, a Mi''kmaw hunter, healer, and showman. Co-published by Goose Lane Editions and the Nova Scotia Museum, the book offers to readers, for the first time, the earliest known Mi''kmaw memoir. Jerry Lonecloud was born Germain Laksi, on 4 July 1852 in Belfast, Maine, to Mi''kmaw parents from Nova Scotia. As a youth, he lived in Vermont. Orphaned at the age of fourteen, he set out on a two-year adventure to bring his two brothers and one sister back to Nova Scotia. Trained in the use of herbal medicine by his parents, Laski fell easily into the role of Doctor Lonecloud in the American medicine shows of the 1880s, including Healey and Bigelow''s Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, Buffalo Bill''s Wild West Show, and his own company, the Kiowa Medicine Show, for which he made the medicines. During the rest of his remarkable lTrade Review"Tracking Doctor Lonecloud is a short book, but it contains more information than most books twice its size, and much of the content isn't documented anywhere else ... captivating . . . Whitehead lets [these stories] stand alone, and her economy is the reason for this volume's success. Lonecloud's voice is a true original, and this book is a singular accomplishment." * Quill & Quire starred review *
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Goose Lane Editions The Lynching of Peter Wheeler
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the narrative of one man's misfortune, The Lynching of Peter Wheeler, is lucid and readable." -- Philip Marchand * The National Post *"A fascinating account of historical racism and injustice in the True North — strong, but NOT so free. Komar writes with great clarity of prose and mind. The Lynching of Peter Wheeler is an indispensable book for any lover of Canadian true crime or criminal history. Highly recommended!" -- Lee Mellor
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Goose Lane Editions Summers in St. Andrews
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Goose Lane Editions Captured Hearts
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Goose Lane Editions GWG Piece by Piece
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In GWG: Piece by Piece, Catherine C. Cole does a delightful job in telling the tale of one of the country's most beloved garment makers, Edmonton-based GWG. The book's softover coffee-table format lends itself well to telling a largely visual tale." -- Mark Reid * Canada's History *
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Goose Lane Editions The Bastard of Fort Stikine The Hudsons Bay
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Bastard of Fort Stikine is a fine tale, and Komar has done a superb job in gathering the evidence and sorting out what happened the night McLoughlin was murdered." — * Canada's History *
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Goose Lane Editions The Lost Wilderness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an attractive book, and it will definitely appeal to naturalists (amateur and professional), historians and armchair adventurers like myself. The excellent photos alone add value to the text, which Mr. Guitard has painstakingly compiled. ... Particularly interesting are Mr. Guitard's own notes he adds at the end of several of the field trips. I imagine that he could have written a book about his own adventures alone." * Miramichi Reader *
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Goose Lane Editions Till the Boys Come Home Life on the Home Front in
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Abortion
Book SynopsisVigorously demonstrating the relevance of reasoning to important moral problems, the participants in this dialogue resist the temptations of strident emotional appeal in an effort to present the most honorable and intellectually sophisticated sides of their arguments. This effort leads them to consideration of ante-bellum slavery, to a comparison of the notions of absolute truth in ethics versus mathematics, and to constructive discussions of genetics, artificial intelligence, euthanasia, personal identity, human sexuality, and Roe v. Wade.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc War and the Intellectuals
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy
Book Synopsis History''s first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as they were a patchwork of conflicting interests. They came together most vigorously in the name of what they opposed: the emerging financial and commercial monopolies, the old Washington dynasty, and any whiff of privilege or aristocracy. Yet they demonstrated how even unprincipled national parties could invigorate representative democracy and repair the growing rifts between Northern industrialists, the Old South, and the developing West. These texts show the Jacksonian movement as a cross-section of nineteenth century America. A picture of popular democracy in its infancy, they together form a study of unity in diversity. Trade ReviewThis bracing collection offers a profound glimpse into the depth and variety of social views Jackson and Van Buren had to negotiate in order to create the now familiar sort of political party that has been essential to American democracy. Composed of entirely primary sources, the collection remains a revealing window into the social and political thought of the Jacksonian America, and stands as an essential complement to contemporary secondary treatments of the era. --Russell Muirhead, Harvard University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Treatise on Slavery
Book Synopsis In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso de Sandoval described dozens of African ethnicities, their languages, and their beliefs, and provided an exposé of the abuse of slaves in the Americas. This collection of previously untranslated selections from Sandoval''s book is an invaluable resource for understanding the history of the African diaspora, slavery in colonial Latin America, and the role of Christianity in the formation of the Spanish Empire; it also provides insights into early modern European concepts of race. A general Introduction and headnotes to each selection provide cultural, historical, and religious context; copious footnotes identify terms and references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. A map and an index are also provided. Trade ReviewNot only are the translations very well done; Von Germeten's notes and annotations are excellent, demonstrating a real sensibility for the African backgrounds of those to whom Sandoval ministered. . . she does a very fine job of addressing African histories and raising questions that emanate out of Africa, rather than seeing the enslaved simply as incipient Americans. Strongly recommended for Colonial Latin American surveys as well as for Atlantic History and African Diapora courses. --James Sweet, Department of History, University of WisconsinFor scholars who wish to understand the African-European encounter in the early modern Atlantic world, Alonso de Sandoval's 1627 treatise on Jesuit ministries among African slaves in the New World is a must-read. . . . With Nicole von Germeten's new abridged translation, the first ever in English, this rich document is now available and intellectually more accessible to a wider Anglophone readership. . . . The translation itself is highly readable, free from the labored feel of translations marred by hyperliteralism. In helpful introductions to each book and chapter, as well as in periodic footnotes, von Germeten provides context and definitions essential to the general reader . . . this new translation of De instauranda Aethiopum salute will prove a rich resource. --Ronald J. Morgan, Abilene Christian UniversityBy translating and explicating Sandoval, [Germeten] helps us appreciate his particular angles and empowers us to investigate and contemplate his influence. . . . Moreover, her elegant introduction, and her painstaking research as seen in her extensive notes and section briefings, make her work a must read. --Amanda Clark, Virginia Tech, for H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Argillite
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Guide to Indigenous Herbs
Book SynopsisBefore European immigration to North America and for some time afterwards, the Indigenous peoples maintained an extensive stock of herbal medicines that they gathered from the forests, plains and mountains of their environment. This well-illustrated handbook describes 52 of the best-known herbs used by the First Peoples of North America. Each plant is identified by locale, sketch and photograph, and the uses to which each was put are briefly described. Tonics, inhalants, poultices, laxatives, diuretics, sedatives - there was a plant for every need. Some of these tribal remedies passed - often in more sophisticated form - into the repertoire of the medical profession; many others have a secure place in the annals of folk medicine. More than 200 medicinal plants indigenous to the Americas have been official in the United States Pharmacopoeia since the first edition was published in 1820. In addition to these, perhaps another 300 herbs known to Indigenous healers have been used by doctors
£12.34
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada American Indian Pottery
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Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Indian Hunters
Book SynopsisThe Compilation of the Indian Hunters Series. Includes Hunters of Buffalo, Hunters of Eastern Forests, Hunters of the Ice, Hunters of the Northern Forest, Hunters of Sea. Shiver as the Eskimo waits beside a breathing hole for a ringed seal. Marvel at the migration of vast caribou herds across the tundra. Breathe the dust when the Plains Indians drive buffalo into an impoundment. Balance on a catwalk over a roaring river to net salmon with Salish Indians. Slip silently through eastern forests on a deer trail. THE PROVIDERS will take you into the lives of the first North American hunters, where you will learn of their ingenious hunting, fishing, and trapping methods.
£17.09
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Spirit Quest
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£13.29
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Kwakiutl Legends as told to Pamela Whitaker by
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£16.19
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Circumnavigating Father
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£13.29
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Power Quest
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£13.29
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Ah Mo Indian Legends from the Northwest Indian
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£8.54
