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Business Of Killing Indians - Scalp Warfare And The Violent Conquest Of North America

by Kiser William S. Kiser

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 How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns of corporeal mutilation of Indian peoples in the Americas
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California, A Slave State

by Jean Pfaelzer

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 The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking
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The Business Of Killing Indians - Scalp Warfare And The Violent Conquest Of North America

by William S. Kiser

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 How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns of corporeal mutilation of Indian peoples in the Americas
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California, A Slave State

by Pfaelzer Jean Pfaelzer

~~33,13€~~ 26,50€ 20% OFF

 The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking
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Frontiers In The Gilded Age - Adventure, Capitalism, And Dispossession From Southern Africa To The U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917

by Offenburger Andrew Offenburger

~~46,38€~~ 37,10€ 20% OFF

 The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in Southern Africa, and the people who participated in both
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Growing Up With The Country - Family, Race, And Nation After The Civil War

by Field Kendra Taira Field

~~46,38€~~ 37,10€ 20% OFF

 The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants
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American West - A New Interpretive History

by Coleman Jon T. Coleman, Faragher John Mack Faragher e Hine Robert V. Hine

~~33,13€~~ 26,50€ 20% OFF

 A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America
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An American Genocide - The United States And The California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

by Benjamin Madley

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 The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule
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The American West - A New Interpretive History

by John Mack Faragher, Jon T. Coleman e Robert V. Hine

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 A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America
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Sugar Creek - Life On The Illinois Prairie

by Faragher John Mack Faragher

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 "This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, and reminiscences, the author of the prize-winning Women and Men on the Overland Trail vividly portrays the lives of the prairie’s inhabitants—Indians, pioneers, farming men and women—and adds a compelling new chapter to American social history. "Every chapter, almost every page, contains new ideas or throws new light on old ones, by means of a wealth of detail and clarity of though which brings the past alive again."—Hugh Brogan, The Times Literary Supplement "Here, succinctly set out, is the American prairie experience."—Publishers Weekly
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American Genocide - The United States And The California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

by Benjamin Madley

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 The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule
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Legal Codes And Talking Trees - Indigenous Women’S Sovereignty In The Sonoran And Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946

by Jagodinsky Katrina Jagodinsky

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 "Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise mixed-race children, or take legal action in the event of rape or abuse. Through the experiences of six indigenous women who fought for personal autonomy and the rights of their tribes, Jagodinsky explores a long yet generally unacknowledged tradition of active critique of the U.S. legal system by female Native Americans"--Book jacket.
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Grounds For Dreaming - Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, And The California Farmworker Movement

by Flores Lori A. Flores

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 <div>Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World," California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period.<BR> Â <BR> An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.</div>
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Cherokee Diaspora - An Indigenous History Of Migration, Resettlement, And Identity

by Smithers Gregory D. Smithers

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 <div>The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838-39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people.</div>
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Home Rule - Households, Manhood, And National Expansion On The Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier

by Sachs Honor Sachs

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 <div>On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole. Endorsed by many prominent western historians, this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship.</div>
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Sovereignty For Survival - American Energy Development And Indian Self-Determination

by Allison James Robert Allison

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 <div>In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy corporations to develop coal reserves on sovereign Indian land. This challenge to corporate and federal authorities, initiated by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne nations, changed the laws of the land to expand Native American sovereignty while simultaneously reshaping Native identities and Indian Country itself.<BR> <BR> James Allison makes an important contribution to ethnic, environmental, and energy studies with this unique exploration of the influence of America’s indigenous peoples on energy policy and development. Allison’s fascinating history documents how certain federally supported, often environmentally damaging, energy projects were perceived by American Indians as potentially disruptive to indigenous lifeways. These perceived threats sparked a pan-tribal resistance movement that ultimately increased Native American autonomy over reservation lands and enabled an unprecedented boom in tribal entrepreneurship. At the same time, the author demonstrates how this movement generated great controversy within Native American communities, inspiring intense debates over culturally authentic forms of indigenous governance and the proper management of tribal lands.</div>
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George I. SáNchez - The Long Fight For Mexican American Integration

by Blanton Carlos Kevin Blanton

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Yaquis And The Empire - Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, And Native Resilience In Colonial Mexico

by Folsom Raphael Brewster Folsom

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 This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui people in more than thirty years and presents a finely wrought portrait of the colonial experience of the indigenous peoples of Mexico's Yaqui River Valley. In examining native engagement with the forces of the Spanish empire, Raphael Brewster Folsom identifies three ironies that emerged from the dynamic and ambiguous relationship of the Yaquis and their conquerors: the strategic use by the Yaquis of both resistance and collaboration; the intertwined roles of violence and negotiation in the colonial pact; and the surprising ability of the imperial power to remain effective despite its general weakness.   Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
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Gathering Together - The Shawnee People Through Diaspora And Nationhood, 1600?1870

by Lakomaki (Lakomaki) Sami Lakomaki (Lakomaki)

~~33,13€~~ 26,50€ 20% OFF

 Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together, this book spans nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees' first European contacts to the post-Civil War era, and demonstrates vividly how the interactions between Natives and newcomers transformed the political realities and ideas of both groups.
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Western Paradox - A Conservation Reader

by Devoto Bernard Devoto

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 "This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper’s Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto’s acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto’s at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto’s work and legacy.
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Sun Chief - The Autobiography Of A Hopi Indian

by Talayesva Don C. Talayesva

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 First published in 1942,A Sun ChiefA is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how scholars have used the book since its publication more than seventy years ago.
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Before L.A. - Race, Space, And Municipal Power In Los Angeles, 1781-1894

by Torres-Rouff David Samuel Torres-Rouff

~~59,63€~~ 47,70€ 20% OFF

 Expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today.
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Nature'S Noblemen - Transatlantic Masculinities And The Nineteenth-Century American West

by Rico Monica Rico

~~36,44€~~ 29,15€ 20% OFF

 Explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. The author uncovers the networks of elite men who circulated between the West and the metropoles of London and New York.
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Hell On The Range - A Story Of Honor, Conscience, And The American West

by Daniel Justin Herman

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 An account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s - what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War". It explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. It offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history.
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