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  • The Reckoning

    The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier

    by Peter R. Rose ...
    Series series
    Isolated by geology and passed over by development, the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas became the stage for one of the great nineteenth-century dramas of Western justice. In 1873, opportunistic Anglo-Celtic cattlemen and homesteaders, protected by little other than personal firearms and their own bravado, began settling the stream-laced rangelands east of the plateau. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • New Directions in Anthropology and Environment

    Intersections

    Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Good War of Consul Reeves

    by Peter Rose ...
    Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves – his career and marriage failing – is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China. The Japanese soon declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • As My Accountant Instructed and other writings

    by Peter Rose ...
    A collection of short stories and poetry Adventure, history, thrills and intrigue all mixed with insight and meaning. ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • Tropes of Intolerance

    Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear

    by Peter Rose ...
    Tropes of Intolerance is a Baedeker of bigotry, a short course on xenophobic racism and populist nationalism – both enduring threats to the social fabric of democratic societies.Each chapter is a self-contained commentary and a building block. In the first, the author considers the concepts of pride and prejudice and discusses patterns of discrimination and strategies of resistance. This is ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor

    by Peter Rose ...
    Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor describes the lucky journey of Peter Rose, an octogenarian sociologist, ethnographer, writer, teacher and world traveler. In the pages of this colorful memoir, the author comments on six decades of academic life in the U.S. and abroad, his work as researcher, editor and consultant, his excursions as a travel journalist, and some intimate portraits of those ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch

    by Peter G Rose ...
    The renowned food historian delves into the early culinary traditions of Dutch settlers in New York state and their influence on the American kitchen.In 1609, Henry Hudson, under contract with the Dutch East India Company, set out to discover the lucrative Northwest Passage. The Hudson River Valley is what he discovered instead, and along its banks Dutch culture took hold. While the Dutch ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delicious December

    How the Dutch Brought Us Santa, Presents, and Treats: A Holiday Cookbook

    by Peter G. Rose ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Food and history combine in this exploration of the Dutch influence on American holiday traditions. Includes more than one hundred easy-to-make holiday recipes.Delicious December mixes food and history in a celebration of Dutch and American Christmas traditions. In more than one hundred tried-and-true recipes, award-winning food historian Peter G. Rose draws on traditions that date back to the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Class in Archaic Greece

    by Peter W. Rose ...
    Archaic Greece saw a number of decisive changes, including the emergence of the polis, the foundation of Greek settlements throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, the organization of panhellenic games and festivals, the rise of tyranny, the invention of literacy, the composition of the Homeric epics and the emergence of lyric poetry, the development of monumental architecture and large scale ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • They and We

    Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States and Beyond

    by Peter I. Rose ...
    The first edition of They and We was published shortly after the March on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech, and just before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by Congress. Now read by tens of thousands, this book has been updated and expanded seven times since then as it continues to provide a basic grounding in the ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Mainstream and Margins Revisited

    Sixty Years of Commentary on Minorities in America

    When his book Mainstream and Margins was published in 1983, Peter Rose's writings on American minorities and those who studied them painted a vivid picture of what life was like in America for Jews, blacks, and other minorities in the United States. Now, a third of a century later, he revisits the topic, with sixteen new chapters, in addition to seven from the original edition. Newer content ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Mainstream and Margins

    Jews, Blacks and Other Americans

    by Peter I. Rose ...
    This volume of commentaries on racial and ethnic relations is a sociological assessment of a changing society and a personal statement about many of the most pressing racial issues since the 1954 Brown-Supreme court decision. From the perspective of humanistic sociology, Peter Rose shows that sociology need not be a cold, artless science and argues that sociological enterprise should treat future ... Read more

    $68.99 USD