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This book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries-ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. 49 illustrations.
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A political economy approach to prehistory offers a robust means to understand different pathways to complexity. This book argues that economic relations and their potential for control of surplus mobilization explain alternative evolutionary trajectories in human societies.
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This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offering a new heuristic typology of cities. It reviews case studies of six ancient cities... Læs mere
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In this book Timothy Earle argues that studying chiefdoms is essential to understanding the role of elemental powers in social evolution. He studies chiefs and their... Læs mere
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What more could there be to know about Franklin D. Roosevelt, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? There is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, Washington socialite, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's rival. 28 b&w illus.
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Archaeological field survey methods developed over half a century combine with powerful new quantitative tools for spatial analysis to unleash new potential for identifying and studying ancient local communities and regional polities. This volume details these changes.
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An Archaeology of Elmina examines a complex African settlement on the coast of present-day Ghana from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries using the archaeological record, European narratives and indigenous oral histories.
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Designed as an introduction to undergraduate and graduate students new to the subject Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Five Simple Models presents the five foraging... Læs mere
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Focused on four overarching elements of the post-Columbian world (colonialism, Eurocentrism, racialization, and capitalism), A Primer on Modern-World Archaeology is... Læs mere
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In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical science—from the Paleolithic to the present—vividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience.
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Leslie White was one of the most important—and controversial—figures in American anthropology. This classic work, initially published in 1949, contains White’s definitive statement on what he termed 'culturology.'
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This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly... Læs mere