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  • American Home Life, 1880–1930

    A Social History of Spaces and Services

    In the pivotal decades around the turn of the century, American domestic life underwent dramatic alteration. From backstairs to front stairs, spaces and the activities within them were radically affected by shifts in the larger social and material environments. This volume, while taking account of architecture and decoration, moves us beyond the study of buildings to the study of behaviors, ... Leer más

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  • Sense Of Place

    American Regional Cultures

    Despite the homogenization of American life, areas of strong regional consciousness still persist in the United States, and there is a growing interest in regionalism among the public and among academics. In response to that interest ten folklorists here describe and interpret a variety of American regional cultures in the twentieth century. Their book is the first to deal specifically with ... Leer más

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  • Trace

    Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    de Lauret Savoy ...
    **Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. ... Leer más

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  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Leer más

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  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Leer más

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  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... Leer más

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  • Native Seattle

    Histories from the Crossing-Over Place

    de Coll Thrush ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award in History/BiographyThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of ... Leer más

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  • Indian Blues

    American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934

    Series Libro 3 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and ... Leer más

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  • Manliness and Its Discontents

    The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930

    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current ... Leer más

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  • Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

    At the Center of Ceremony and Identity

    Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change?Based on his work in the field and ... Leer más

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  • Authentic Indians

    Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast

    de Paige Raibmon ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about “real Indians.” Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials, missionaries, anthropologists, reformers, settlers, and tourists developed definitions of Indian authenticity based on such binaries as Indian versus White, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Playing Indian

    Series series Yale Historical Publications Series
    The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts: just a few examples of white Americans' tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles**"A valuable contribution to Native American studies."—**Kirkus ReviewsThis provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in ... Leer más

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