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Before the Roads, Before the Mines: Denesuline Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A narrative-based ethnohistory of a Denesu?iné community, also known as the Chipewyan,... Læs mere
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Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Swallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.
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Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Rather than the secret, sanitized site of industrial killing Treblinka was intended to be, Jacob Flaws argues, Treblinka’s mass murder was well-known to the... Læs mere
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Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world’s largest shantytown—Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl—and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico.
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Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This collection offers state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, culture history, archaeology, and linguistics.
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The Dreamcatcher in the Wry (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tiffany Midge’s hilarious and biting collection of essays, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, brims with satiric insight from a Native American perspective. The... Læs mere
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Black Robes Enter Coyote's World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Sally Thompson brings readers into the heart of the Salish homeland in what is now Montana, not only through the words of missionaries and other European observers, but through the lives, stories, and worldview of the Salish people in the nineteenth century.
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Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides the first study of Indigenous perceptions of the Christian sacraments at the fringes of... Læs mere
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On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstream histories on this era of travel.
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Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Star Bound is a satellite’s-eye view of the history of American space exploration, for readers interested in the drama, dreams, and daring that produced the nation’s first ventures into the cosmos.
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Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict Over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Julie Brugger explores what democracy means to ordinary Americans by analyzing conflict over public lands and the management of Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument in southern Utah.
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A Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The biography of Willie McCovey, one of the most feared hitters in baseball, who played most of his career for the San Francisco Giants, was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1986, and remains one of the team’s most beloved players.
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