What happens at your kitchen table can become the blueprint for everything you are. Did you sit alone or with people you loved? Was it fun or tense? Was someone working hard to stop you noticing someone elses mood?...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849485)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849492)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840885)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840892)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477334102)
A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity. A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity. While the creation of a Black-White racial binary...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Times Books, ISBN-13: 9780008804725)
Discover the story of Scotlands capital from behind the lens This photographic portrait offers a distinctive and vivid sketch of Edinburgh, inviting readers to embark on a visual journey through the enchanting streets, landscapes and vibrant culture...Loe edasi...
Feeling a bit like youre winging this whole adulthood thing? Youre not alone. Welcome to the club for everyone who still feels like three kids in a trench coat, pretending to have it all figured out. This book is you...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a lively tour through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their ver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752508)
Ten miles out to sea, Smuttynose Island, in the Isles of Shoals, is a kind of time machine. Native Americans hunted here more than 6,000 years ago. In the dawning days of the American colonies, hundreds of European fishermen salted and dried their...Loe edasi...
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivot...Loe edasi...
William R. Seaburg, Laurel B. Sercombe, Jay Miller, Elizabeth D. Jacobs
Sari: Global Indigenous Literatures
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246158)
Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories comprises forty-five narratives dictated by Coquelle Thompson, an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian residing on the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon, during the fall of 1935. Elizabeth D. Jacobs tra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246684)
In the fall of 1891 Mary Louise Eldridge and Mary Raymond were sent by the Womens Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to work among the Navajos living along the San Juan River in northern New Mexico. There they founded the Nav...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247032)
In this singular memoir, Pearl E. Casias tells the story of her rise from poverty to chair of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in rural southwest Colorado. Casias grew up in poverty and was raised by alcoholic parents. She endured domestic violence in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089084)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, communities in the Downriver region of the Detroit River have forged an enduring claim to the well-being of waterways that are central to where they live, work, and play. Lisa M. Fine examines...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196480)
A vivid biography of a little-known woman in the Arizona Territory that sheds light on issues of drugs and addiction in the 19th century west. Provided by publisher. This moving tale of a young womans years-long struggle with trau...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033462)
Furman University: An Illustrated History, 1826–2026 is a beautiful, hardbound, full-color coffee table book published in commemoration of Furman’s bicentennial. Featuring a foreword from President Elizabeth Davis, 1,100 historic and contempor...Loe edasi...
Frontier Doctor, Urling C. Coes autobiographical account of his thirteen years in Central Oregon, details the extraordinary experiences of a young physician in a frontier town, from childbirthing to epidemics, broken bones to unwanted pregnancies....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246554)
Tilton and Grace Entokah: An Osage Story offers an episodic history of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma as told through the life narratives of Anthony Lookouts great-grandparents Tilton and Grace Entokah. Anthony Lookout grew up hearing the stories of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807185902)
Melissa Daggetts Eugène and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mandeville, a free woman of color, and her white p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531513191)
A photographic time capsule of a pre-gentrified South Brooklyn Memorial Day parade, 80 photographs that preserve a neighborhood and a moment now largely vanished On Memorial Day 1976, weeks before the nation marked its 200th birthda...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807185995)
Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companie...Loe edasi...
Sari: Race and Culture in the American West Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196961)
In the early twentieth century, African Americans created an agricultural community in northern Baja California, Mexico, which they called Little Liberia. As a transborder activist community, the people of Little Liberia sought to counter the forces...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826370457)
A sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of several counterculture families to adopt a traditional Nuevomexicano life in the tiny village of Petaca, New Mexico, in the early 1970s. In the early 1970s there werent many women photogr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880704675)
This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonlani. In Hast...Loe edasi...
For much of the nineteenth century, the women of Newcastle had occupied crucial, though largely underappreciated and acknowledged, roles within society. Aside from the hard life of raising families in an area where money was often hard to come by, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826369635)
A sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of several counterculture families to adopt a traditional Nuevomexicano life in the tiny village of Petaca, New Mexico, in the early 1970s. In the early 1970s there werent many women photogr...Loe edasi...
Every census entry tells a story, but beyond these invaluable records lies another. Recording the Nations takes readers behind the scenes of Britains census from its beginnings in 1801, tracing its history, its bureaucracy, and the people charged wi...Loe edasi...
Englands oldest identifiable cemetery was established over 10,000 years ago, founded before the first bricks of the pyramids were laid. Since then, the English have memorialised their dead in ever-changing ways, providing taphophiles with a glorious...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Washington State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780874224382)
An endurance competition unlike any in their day or likely any since, this is the incredible true story of Americas first mountain adventure race. Intending to showcase the region, organizers created a grueling challenge of strength, stamina, res...Loe edasi...
Examines in detail the debates around ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania Michael H. Taylor examines in detail the debates around ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania.This book breaks down the multiple week deba...Loe edasi...
