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Iowa Past to Present
University of Iowa Press 2003; US$ 29.95In Iowa Past to Present , originally published in 1989, Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their extensive knowledge of Iowa’s history with years of experience addressing the educational needs of elementary and middle-school students. Their skillful and accessible narrative brings alive the people and events... more...
Iowa's Archaeological Past
University of Iowa Press 2000; US$ 29.95Iowa has more than eighteen thousand archaeological sites, and research in the past few decades has transformed our knowledge of the state's human past. Examining the projectile points, potsherds, and patterns that make up the archaeological record, Lynn Alex describes the nature of the earliest settlements in Iowa, the development of farming cultures,... more...
Out of This World
University of Iowa Press 2008; US$ 19.95When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. In this rich and engaging memoir, which follows the course of a farmer?s year, she writes from the... more...
Exploring Buried Buxton
University of Iowa Press 1990; US$ 19.95Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the town site of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925. more...
Haunted by Waters
University of Iowa Press 2007; US$ 29.95Using a wide range of materials that include memoirs, oral interviews, poetry, legal cases, letters, government documents, and even road signs, Robert Hayashi illustrates how Thomas Jefferson's vision of an agrarian, all white, and democratic West affected the Gem State's Nez Perce, Chinese, Shoshone,Mormon, and Japanese residents. Starting at the... more...
Iowa
University of Iowa Press 1996; US$ 35.00In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led?the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans. more...
Rustic Warriors
NYU Press 2011; US$ 65.00The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent:... more...
Provincetown
NYU Press 2005; US$ 65.00How did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen Christel Krahulik explains why Provincetown, Massachusettsalternately known as “Lands End,” “Cape-tip,” “Cape-end,” and, to some, “Queersville, U.S.A”has meant many things to many people.... more...
Island Practice
PublicAffairs 2012; US$ 25.99A spirited true story of a colorful, contrarian doctor on Nantucket, a world-famous yet strikingly offbeat corner of America. Dr. Timothy Lepore often holds the life of the island in his hands. more...
Wilderness Secrets Revealed
Dundurn 2013; US$ 29.99André-François Bourbeau turned his passion for the outdoors into a celebrated career as a ground-breaking researcher and teacher of primitive wilderness survival. These are his first-hand stories, always informative, gritty, and sometimes hilarious. What emerges is one man's everlasting love of the wilderness. more...









