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In Small Things Forgottenby James Deetz
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the intricacies of daily life. In his completely revised and expanded edition of In Small Things Forgotten , Deetz has added new sections that more fully acknowledge the presence of women and African Americans in Colonial America. New interpretations of archaeological finds detail how minorities influenced and were affected by... more...
The Frontier in American Cultureby Richard White; Patricia Nelson Limerick; James R. Grossman
University of California Press 1994; US$ 28.95Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild... more...
Life Linesby Jean Bacon
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 60.00This text is intended for sociologists and anthropologists interested in ethnicity, community and integration amongst Asian Indian immigrants. more...
White on Arrivalby Thomas A. Guglielmo
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 35.00Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late nineteenth century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and an array of primary sources in English and Italian, the author focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and colour were shaped in one of America's great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago. more...
Frommer'sŪ Chicago 2007by Elizabeth Canning Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go -- they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. more...
High Lean Countryby Alan Atkinson; J.S. Ryan; Iain Davidson; Andrew Piper
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 36.32An exploration of the history and heritage of the New England region of New South Wales. more...
Worldviews And The American Westby Polly Stewart
Utah State University Press 2003; US$ 10.00A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, "'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it." In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West. While the contributors represent a range of voices, methods, and visions, they are integrated through their focus on the theme of worldview in one... more...
Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourselfby Rachel Dickinson
Nomad Press 2007; US$ 11.95Build-it activities connect readers to the people who built their homes and communities on the frontier, enhancing this first-hand look at the history of the American West and pioneers. Readers will discover their own mapmaking skills while learning how and why people traveled west and will replicate the tough chore of building a house when creating a log cabin out of edible materials. Other projects that help kids better understand the hardships of life on the frontier include typesetting newspapers with alphabet pasta, making models of covered wagons and prairie bonnets, and making the quilts and candles that would have turned a house in the wilderness into a home. more...
Frommer'sŪ San Antonio & Austinby David Baird
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 16.99A complete guide to two of Texas's most diverse and exciting cities. Shows visitors how to have a great time in San Antonio, a multicultural city with a rich history (the Alamo) and lots of contemporary attractions (including over forty golf courses). more...
Once a King, Always a Kingby Reymundo Sanchez
Chicago Review Press 2004; US$ 12.95This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto once a king, always a king” rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up behind bars and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run from inside the prison system. Harrowing testaments to Sanchez’s determination to rebuild his life include his efforts to separate... more...