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  • Shovel Ready

    Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America

    de Bernard K. Means, John L. Cordell, John F. Doershuk, David H. Dye, Scott W. Hammerstedt, Janet R. Johnson, Kevin Kiernan, Gregory D. Lattanzi, Anna R. Lunn0, Stephen E. Nash1, Amanda L. Regnier2, Sissel Schroeder3, James R. Wettstaed4, Patrick C. Livingood5 ...
    Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for practicing archaeologists and historians of archaeology, as well as New Deal scholars in general.To rescue Americans ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    de William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

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  • Mapping the Nation

    History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Susan Schulten ...
    "A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery ( Journal of American History).In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Gotham Unbound

    The Ecological History of Greater New York

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Bone Rooms

    From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

    de Samuel J. Redman ...
    A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”—SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Moundbuilders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America (Second)

    de George R. Milner ...
    Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape.Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

    de Paul S Sutter, Paul M Pressly ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Water

    An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

    de David Soll ...
    Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Faith in Black Power

    Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois

    de Kerry Pimblott ...
    Series series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. The white authorities ruled the death a suicide, but many members of the African American community believed that Hunt had been murdered—a sentiment that sparked rebellions and protests across the city. Cairo suddenly emerged as an important battleground for black survival in America and became a focus ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    de Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander ...
    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Mastering Iron

    The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868

    de Anne Kelly Knowles ...
    Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD