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  • A Strange Likeness

    Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking at how much Indians and Europeans had in common. In six chapters, this book compares Indian and European ideas about land, government, recordkeeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles

    Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding.Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • A Strange Likeness

    Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking at how much Indians and Europeans had in common. In six chapters, this book compares Indian and European ideas about land, government, recordkeeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Native American Whalemen and the World

    Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world’s oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Clearing a Path

    Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians

    Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O'Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, Scott Manning Stevens ...
    A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Negotiators of Change

    Historical Perspectives on Native American Women

    Edited by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Negotiators of Change covers the history of ten tribal groups including the Cherokee, Iroquois and Navajo -- as well as tribes with less known histories such as the Yakima, Ute, and Pima-Maricopa. The book contests the idea that European colonialization led to a loss of Native American women's power, and instead presents a more complex picture of the adaption to, and subversion of, the economic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • The Native Ground

    Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    **"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History**New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the YearWith a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.**How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and V.. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Captive Paradise

    A History of Hawaii

    by James L. Haley ...
    The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Complicity

    How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank ...
    A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery“The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco ChronicleThe North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Indigenous Continent

    The Epic Contest for North America

    by Pekka Hämäläinen ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus ReviewsLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book at hand.” —David Treuer, The New Yorker“[T]he single best book I have ever read on ... Read more

    $15.09 USD