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1912
Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 16.00Four extraordinary men sought the presidency in 1912. Theodore Roosevelt was the charismatic and still wildly popular former president who sought to redirect the Republican Party toward a more nationalistic, less materialistic brand of conservatism and the cause of social justice. His handpicked successor and close friend, William Howard Taft, was... more...
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF PLACEMAKING
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95This collection of original essays explores the tensions between prevailing regional and national versions of Indigenous pasts created, reified, and disseminated through monuments, and Indigenous peoples’ memories and experiences of place. The contributors ask critical questions about historic preservation and commemoration methods used by modern... more...
Acorns and Bitter Roots
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 21.50People regularly use plants for a wide range of utilitarian, spiritual, pharmacological, and dietary purposes throughout the world. Scholarly understanding of the nature of these uses in prehistory is particularly limited by the poor preservation of plant resources in the archaeological record. In the last two decades, researchers in the South Pacific... 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...
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...
America in the Great War
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 38.00Demonstrates how, in order to mobilize the USA for World War I, the US government created a war welfare state in which groups having the largest bargaining power - businessmen, labour and military leaders, social reformers and pro-war lobbies - received the largest rewards for their co-operation. more...
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 32.95Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002 An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium. Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession since World War II, they have passed through the testing... more...
The Anthropology of Florida
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 34.95A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas. This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical anthropology, and aboriginal history, it also contains... more...
Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 38.50A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This reissue of Charles Jones's classic investigations of the Mound Builders will be an invaluable resource for archaeologists today. Long a classic of southeastern archaeology, Charles Jones's Antiquities of the Southern Indians was a groundbreaking work that linked historic tribes with prehistoric... more...
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley 1940-1947
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 43.95A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication A classic work by three important scholars who document prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the continent's largest river. The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum... more...









