During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks today....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496229717)
In the early eastern theater of the American Civil War, the Northern and Southern armies saw little of combat and little of each other, with most of their military intelligence more akin to propaganda than objective fact. However, by 1862 both sides...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247216)
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it Utopia on the Prairie, home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496243515)
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it Utopia on the Prairie, home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496233745)
The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (181081), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popula...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247322)
Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession is a love storyof a mothers love for her husband and a fathers love for horses. Combining memoir and social history with a journey into the world of horses, Liza J. Nicholas reveals how a parent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246806)
Since the team was established in 1971, the Texas Rangers have built a rich history and identity that makes them unique among MLB teams. The Texas Rangers and Me takes readers on a journey through the incredible highs and lows and the unforgettable...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247551)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496244833)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496239587)
Yosemite National Park hosts more than four million visitors annually, a number that underscores both the national parks immense popularity and its limits. Large numbers of visitors means air pollution from car emissions, noise pollution that drown...Loe edasi...
The aim of this volume is to bring together scholars working on Northeast India and its periphery in the context of traditional culture and colonial encounters. Traditional culture as a way of life in pre-modern societies is associated with heritage...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...
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...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
On November 28, 1729, Natchez warriors walked into Fort Rosalie, Louisiana, and opened fire on French colonists. Within an hour, nearly 250 French were dead, and as many women and children were taken hostage. After several punitive expeditions...Loe edasi...
Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks today....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052585)
A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this ancient country....Loe edasi...
Join Robin Crawford on a personal journey from the source of the River Tay to the sea. Reaching back to a prehistoric fish found near Balruddery in Perthshire, we follow its story through time to the present day, with detours to seek gold, clans, ba...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052745)
Beautifully illustrated with over 400 photographs, maps and diagrams, Exploring Avebury invites us on a journey of discovery. For the first time the importance of water, light and sound is revealed, and we begin to see Avebury through the eyes of th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496229717)
In the early eastern theater of the American Civil War, the Northern and Southern armies saw little of combat and little of each other, with most of their military intelligence more akin to propaganda than objective fact. However, by 1862 both sides...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247216)
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it Utopia on the Prairie, home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496243515)
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it Utopia on the Prairie, home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496233745)
The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (181081), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popula...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247322)
Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession is a love storyof a mothers love for her husband and a fathers love for horses. Combining memoir and social history with a journey into the world of horses, Liza J. Nicholas reveals how a parent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246806)
Since the team was established in 1971, the Texas Rangers have built a rich history and identity that makes them unique among MLB teams. The Texas Rangers and Me takes readers on a journey through the incredible highs and lows and the unforgettable...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247551)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496244833)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496239587)
Yosemite National Park hosts more than four million visitors annually, a number that underscores both the national parks immense popularity and its limits. Large numbers of visitors means air pollution from car emissions, noise pollution that drown...Loe edasi...
