Bioarchaelogical Reconstruction and Interpretation
Prehistoric Lifeways of the Great Basin Wetlands examines how the earliest inhabitants of the Great basin in Nevada, Utah, and Oregon made use of ancient marshes and lakes. When the Great Salt Lake receded in the 1980s from its highest historically recorded levels, it exposed a large number of archaeological and burial sites. Other wetland areas ......
An epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830s to World War I thousands of indentured labourers were shipped from India to the Caribbean. The study is based on official documents and archives, as well as material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources.
Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century
Traces the trajectory of African American social movements from the time Booker T Washington to the present, providing an integrated discussion of class. This title addresses questions crucial to any understanding of Black politics.
Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The ......
The Casas Grandes World focuses on a remarkable prehistoric culture that extended through parts of present-day Chihuahua, Sonora, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona, centering on the large Mexican site of Casas Grandes. The thousands of prehistoric sites in this vast area have only recently been considered related to each other, yet it now appears ......
Middle-Class American Women and Their Friends in the Twentieth Century
A study of the changing nature of friendship between white middle-class women during the coming-of-age of modern America. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the author sets out to uncover the complex and intricate links between social and cultural developments and female friendship.
Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well as their material aspirations centered on St. Augustine's parish. From the days of Civil War, through the decades when Jim Crow ruled Washington, ......
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
A century ago a spate of high-profile trials fuelled public debates in England and France about marriage and divorce laws, women's rights, temperance, homosexual prostitution and lesbian literature. This study of some of those trials addresses the role of the state in regulating sexual morality.
