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The Brothertown Nation of Indians
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 45.00A group of educated Christian Natives from a variety of New England tribes came together in central New York in 1785 to form a community of their own, Brothertown, a proprietary ?Body Politick? modeled after a New England town with an elected leadership. In an effort to retain their land rights and remain self-sufficient, the Natives of Brothertown... more...
Die "Vietnam-Generation" der Kriegsberichterstatter
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 34.77Hauptbeschreibung Die amerikanischen Kriegsberichterstatter in Vietnam: Begründer des Triumphes eines kritischen Journalismus? Vietnam gilt als der letzte Krieg, aus dem frei und unbehindert berichtet werden konnte, und in dem sich Journalisten und Militärs gleichberechtigt gegenüber standen. Diese Sicht wurde zwar von der Forschung weitgehend widerlegt,... more...
Reservation "Capitalism"
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 48.00This unique book investigates the history and future of American Indian economic activities and explains why tribal governments and reservation communities must focus on creating sustainable privately and tribally owned businesses if reservation communities and tribal cultures are to continue to exist. more...
Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages
University of California Press 2012; US$ 65.00Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages were empty, and most people had gone. This cycle... more...
Native American Studies across Time and Space
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 39.13Hauptbeschreibung This collection of essays advocates a multidisciplinary dialogue that brings together an international group of scholars who work in the field of Latin American, Anglo-American, and Francophone Native Studies. To foster a more comprehensive and diverse curriculum of Native American Studies, this volume combines contributions from... more...
The Choctaw before Removal
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 25.00This book of eight essays focuses upon Choctaw history prior to 1830, when the tribe forfeited territorial claims and was removed from native lands in Mississippi. The editors have included essays emphasizing Choctaw anthropology, Choctaw beliefs, and the Choctaw experience with the U.S. government prior to the tribe's removal to Oklahoma. Attention... more...
Trying to Measure Globalization
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99The aim of this book is to conduct a critical survey of the main tools devised for the synthetic measurement of globalization processes. To this end, the first part of the book discusses the meaning of the concept considered, highlighting the different and often contradictory interpretations put forward in its regard in the literature. Subsequently... more...
We Shall Live Again
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 25.00A study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians. more...
The New Imperialism
OUP Oxford 2003; US$ 19.99People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the... more...
Grey Owl
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 15.95Born in Hastings, England, in 1888, Archibald Stansfeld Belaney spent a solitary childhood under the strict tutelage of two maiden aunts. As a young man, he escaped to Canada, where he whole-heartedly embraced life on the frontier in northern Ontario and Quebec, passing himself off as the son of a Scotsman and a Jicarilla Apache woman. After abandoning... more...









