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  • Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles

    by David H. Dye, Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, Johann A. Sawyer, John F. Scarry, Robert V. Sharp, Kevin E. Smith, Lynne P. Sullivan, Adam King0, George Sabo1 ...
    In Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles, archaeologists analyze evidence of the religious beliefs and ritual practices of Mississippian people through the lens of indigenous ontologies and material culture. Employing archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric evidence, the contributors explore the recent emphasis on iconography as an important component for ... Read more

    $112.59 USD

  • Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean

    History and Archaeology

    by Ashley A. Dumas, Paul N. Eubanks, Ian W. Brown, Ann M. Early, Hannah Guidry, Nancy A. Kenmotsu, Larry McKee, Heather McKillop, Steven M. Meredith0, Maurreen Meyers1, Joost Morsink2, Timothy K. Perttula3, Alyssa Sperry4, Professor Kevin E. Smith5 ...
    Series series Archaeology of Food
    Case studies examining the archaeological record of an overlooked mineralSalt, once a highly prized trade commodity essential for human survival, is often overlooked in research because it is invisible in the archaeological record. Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology brings salt back into archaeology, showing that it was valued as a dietary additive, had ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Speaking with the Ancestors

    Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region

    by James V. Miller, Professor Kevin E. Smith ...
    When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write about, but having no value to explorers searching for gold or land, there are no records of these idols ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee

    Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions

    by David H. Dye, Thaddeus G. Bissett, Jessica Dalton-Carriger, Marlin F. Hawley, Jessica R. Howe, Shannon Koerner, Bernard K. Means, Michael C. Moore, Gerald F. Schroedl, Douglas W. Schwartz0, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman1, Lynne P. Sullivan2, Giovanna M. Vidoli3, Heather Worne4, Professor Kevin E. Smith5 ...
    New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era.New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, "full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology" ( The Washington Post Book World).Here, "the rock star of modern science" tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Wild Things Were

    Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

    by William Stolzenburg ...
    For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

    An Ecological History

    by John L. Riley ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Wild New World

    The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

    by Dan Flores ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardWinner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History LiteratureShortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.**In 1908, near Folsom, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Mannahatta

    A Natural History of New York City

    by Eric W. Sanderson ...
    What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown.Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal , New York Magazine , and San Francisco ChronicleOn September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it's difficult to imagine what he saw, but for ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King Sequoia

    The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature

    by William C. Tweed ...
    A naturist and historian for the National Parks Service offers a lively history of the giant sequoias of California and the love of nature they inspired.Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of some of the world's largest and oldest trees in a narrative that travels deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, across the American West, and all the way to New Zealand. Along the way, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gotham Unbound

    The Ecological History of Greater New York

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    **Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US HistoryA “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.**Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... Read more

    $35.99 USD