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Die Indianer Nordamerikas
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2011; US$ 17.25Hauptbeschreibung Im Land des Sitting Bull Seit die Vorfahren der Indianer vor Tausenden von Jahren den Spuren ihrer Beutetiere auf den neuen Kontinent folgten, hatten sich ihre Tipis, Langhäuser und Pfahlhütten über ganz Nordamerika verbreitet. Von den friedlichen Stämmen an der Pazifikküste bis zu den später so unbeugsamen Seminolen in Florida... more...
Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument
University of New Mexico Press 2004; US$ 70.00These essays summarize the results of new excavation and survey research at Bandelier National Monument, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from lif more...
The Allen Site
University of New Mexico Press 2007; US$ 60.00Recent research on the intriguing Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska and the nearby Medicine Creek sites has revealed a wealth of new information on the land and animal use of the early inhabitants. more...
Reformers and War
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 50.00Examines the confrontation between the American reform tradition in the first world war. more...
America in the Great War
Oxford University Press, USA 1991; US$ 20.99After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war at all, considering we fought for... more...
Treaties and Treachery
Caxton Press 2011; US$ 18.95Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The seven years from 1853 to 1859 are probably more important to the Pacific Northwest than any period of its recorded history. It was in the 1850s that officials began carving the Oregon Territory into the states. It was the period when most Indian tribes signed treaties that... more...
Between Contacts and Colonies
University of Alabama Press 2002; US$ 29.95This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period. For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization by whites in the 18th century—a temporal span... more...
Medicine Creek
University of Alabama Press 2002; US$ 29.95This valuable book is an excellent overview of long-term archaeological investigations in the valley that remains at the forefront of studies on the First Americans. In southwest Nebraska, a stretch of Medicine Creek approximately 20 kilometers long holds a remarkable concentration of both late Paleoindian and late prehistoric sites.... more...
A Companion to Woodrow Wilson
Wiley 2013; US$ 195.00A Companion to Woodrow Wilson presents a compilation of essays contributed by various scholars in the field that cover all aspects of the life and career of America’s 28th president. Represents the only current anthology of essays to introduce readers to the scholarship on all aspects of Wilson's life and career Offers a 'one stop' destination... more...
Holy Ground, Healing Water
Texas A&M University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Most people would not consider north central Kansas? Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known?when it is thought of at all?for agriculture and, perhaps to a few, as the home of "The World?s Largest Ball of Twine"... more...









