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Ancient Maya Cities Of The Eastern Lowlands

by Brett A. Houk

105,93€ + 10% CARD

 <p>For more than a century researchers have studied Maya ruins, and sites like Tikal, Palenque, Copán, and Chichén Itzá have shaped our understanding of the Maya. Yet the lowlands of Belize, which were once home to a rich urban tradition that persisted and evolved for almost 2,000 years, are treated as peripheral to these great Classic period sites. The hot and humid climate and dense forests are inhospitable and make preservation of the ruins difficult, but this oft-ignored area reveals much about Maya urbanism and culture.</p><p>Using data collected from different sites throughout the Maya lowlands, including the Vaca Plateau and the Belize River Valley, Brett Houk presents the first synthesis of these unique monuments and discusses methods for mapping and excavating. Considering the sites through the theoretical lenses of the built environment and ancient urban planning, Houk vividly reconstructs their political history, how they fit into the larger political landscape of the Classic Maya, and how the ancient cities fell apart over time.</p>
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Tenochtitlan - Capital Of The Aztec Empire

by Jose Luis De Rojas

99,31€ + 10% CARD

 An accessible overview of archaeological knowledge of the seat of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan.
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Adventures In Archaeology - The Wreck Of The Orca Ii And Other Explorations

by P.J. Capelotti

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 Explores places and things that people don't typically think of as archaeological sites and artifacts, introducing readers to the most extreme fieldwork taking place today. P.J. Capelotti shows that even seemingly ordinary objects from the recent past hold secrets about the cultural history of humans.
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Racial Experiments In Cuban Literature And Ethnography

by Emily A. Maguire

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 In this breakthrough study, Emily Maguire examines how a cadre of writers reimagined Cuba and re-valorized Afro-Cuban culture through a textual production that incorporated elements of the ethnographic with the literary. Singling out the work of Lydia Cabrera, Maguire constructs a series of counterpoints that place Cabrera's work in dialogue with that of her Cuban contemporaries.
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Slave Families And The Hato Economy In Puerto Rico

by David M. Stark

22,97€

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 Scholarship on slavery in the Caribbean frequently emphasizes sugar and tobacco production, but this unique work illustrates the importance of the region's hato economy - a combination of livestock ranching, foodstuff cultivation, and timber harvesting - on the living patterns among slave communities.
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The Ancient Urban Maya - Neighborhoods, Inequality, And Built Form

by Scott R. Hutson

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 Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor sanitation, and disease - often more than rural areas. In The Ancient Urban Maya, Scott Hutson examines ancient Maya cities and argues that, despite the hazards of urban life, these places continued to lure people for many centuries.
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Frontiers Of Colonialism

102,74€

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 Bringing together case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Western and non-Western contexts, this volume makes the claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations. Christine Beaule challenges archaeologists to rethink these two major self-imposed boundaries of study.
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The Many Facades Of Edith Sitwell

81,11€

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 Establishing Edith Sitwell at the centre of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned persona, the contributors explore how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity.
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Voices Of Civil Rights Lawyers - Reflections From The Deep South, 1964-1980

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 These eyewitness accounts provide unique windows onto the most dramatic moments in civil rights history, illuminating the legal fights that heralded the 1965 Selma March, the first civil judgment against the Ku Klux Klan, the creation of ballot access for blacks in Alabama, and the 1968 Democratic Convention.
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Willy Ley - From Rocketeer To The Far Side Of The Moon

by Jared S. Buss

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 Science writer Willy Ley inspired Americans of all ages to imagine a future of interplanetary travel long before space shuttles existed. This is the first biography of an important public figure who predicted and boosted the rise of the Space Age, yet has been overlooked in the history of science.
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Trailblazing Mars - Nasa'S Next Giant Leap

by Pat Duggins

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 Travel to and from Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. And yet the hurdles--both technological and financial--have kept human exploration of the red planet from becoming a reality. Trailblazing Mars offers an inside look at the current efforts to fulfill this dream.
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The Anthropology Of Marriage In Lowland South America - Bending And Breaking The Rules

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 This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies - rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry.
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Ancient Maya Cities Of The Eastern Lowlands

by Brett A. Houk

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 Using field reports, data sets and -grey- literature on the many excavated sites, Houk provides a synthesis of archaeological data on the ancient cities of modern Belize for the Classical period and explores their urban planning and built environment. By examining the lowland cities, Houk's work offers balance to the literature on the entire Classic Maya polity.
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Casma City Of El Purgatorio - Ancient Urbanism In The Andes

by Melissa A. Vogel

91,93€

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 The Casma state, which flourished on the north coast of Peru in the centuries before European contact, is an important and vastly understudied ancient culture. Its capital city, El Purgatorio, was inhabited from ca. 700-1400 AD. Melissa Vogel investigates this extensive, monumental urban site in The Casma City of El Purgatorio.
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The Ancient Urban Maya - Neighborhoods, Inequality, And Built Form

by Scott R. Hutson

91,93€

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 Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor sanitation, and disease - often more than rural areas. In The Ancient Urban Maya, Scott Hutson examines ancient Maya cities and argues that, despite the hazards of urban life, these places continued to lure people for many centuries.
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Cusco - Urbanism And Archaeology In The Inka World

by Ian Farrington

36,49€

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Ancient Maya Cities Of The Eastern Lowlands

by Brett A. Houk

82,46€

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 Using field reports, data sets and "grey" literature on the many excavated sites, Houk provides a synthesis of archaeological data on the ancient cities of modern Belize for the Classical period and explores their urban planning and built environment. By examining the lowland cities, Houk's work offers balance to the literature on the entire Classic Maya polity.
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Building The Past - Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture In The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes

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 This volume presents the most current research on domestic, public, and ritual architecture created over four millennia ago along the Ohio River, its tributaries, and the adjacent lower Great Lakes.
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Tenochtitlan - Capital Of The Aztec Empire

by Jose Luis De Rojas

20,27€

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 An accessible overview of archaeological knowledge of the seat of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan.
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Cusco - Urbanism And Archaeology In The Inka World

by Ian Farrington

103,00€

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 An examination of the archaeological data on the Inka capital of Cusco through the lens of urban planning.
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Aztec City-State Capitals

by Michael Ernest Smith

29,73€

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 The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. This work demonstrates the ways in which these city-state capitals were different from Tenochtitlan.

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