Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations-Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan-achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials.Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and ......
The Love and Work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer
At age twenty-six Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become the first Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, she married Harvard professor of philosophy George Herbert Palmer in 1887. A full generation before most educated women began to dream of combining marriage and ......
Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble
Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior-Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomblé. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to ......
Drawing on qualitative studies conducted between 1998 and 2001, the authors of the book provide important information on historic and current trends in assisted living systems serving African Americans.
How African-American mayors of major cities from Los Angeles to New York and Detroit to New Orleans met the post-election challenges of decaying inner cities, white flight, entrenched local power structures, and multiple demands from their diverse constituencies.On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the ......
Using Honduras as a case study, Jeffrey T. Jackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for political economic construction, or nation building. In the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and ......
The practice of female genital cutting, sometimes referred to as female circumcision and common in a number of African states, has attracted increasing attention in recent years and mobilized strong international opposition. While it typically produces a visceral response of horror and revulsion in Westerners, the practice is widely regarded in ......
The First Fifty Years in the Illinois River Valley
In Middle Woodland times (ch. 100 B.C.-A.D.300) the lower Illinois Valley was a cradle of Hopewellian cultural development. This volume assembles and reprints all fifteen of the published seminal pioneer archeological studies of this era and for the first time publishes two important never-before-seen pioneer mound excavation manuscripts.
American Indians urbanized more quickly in the second half of the twentieth century than any other racial or ethnic group in the country. This dynamic social history focuses on Chicago during a thirty year period of remarkable demographic growth that saw the city's American Indian population increase by twentyfold. More than an outgrowth of public ......
