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For those interested in the archaeology of prehistoric North America, author Leland C. Bement’s Beyond the Bone Beds: Large-Scale Bison Kills in Northwest Oklahoma presents carefully researched tech……続きを見る

Delve into the transformative era of Emancipation and Reconstruction with 'The Politics of Emancipation and Reconstruction – 3 Classic American History Texts.' This anthology presents an intricate t……続きを見る

"Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as prima……続きを見る

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor ……続きを見る

This book is the second of a planned three-volulme systematic theology under the title, Confessions of a Heretic. Volume One, which has the subtitle, Philosophical Considerations, was published by A……続きを見る

Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland is a collection of myths, legends, and folktales of the Algonquin-speaking Indigenous tribes of New England, particularly the Passamaquoddy……続きを見る

In "Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United States," Charles Godfrey Leland explores the moral complexities and political maneuvers surrounding the abolition of slavery through a ……続きを見る

FUSANG The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century by Charles G. Leland This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1875 edition by Trübner & Co., London. 続きを見る

Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books. George Floyd’s mur……続きを見る

Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to……続きを見る

Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how b……続きを見る

Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? Fro……続きを見る

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of arch……続きを見る

Winner: Langum Prize Before 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation. That began to change with Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision t……続きを見る

While researching regional folklore in Tuscany during the late 19th Century, an American folklorist recieves a hand written document, the "Vangel", by a mysterious woman named Maddelena. Purportedly……続きを見る

This republication of Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things includes the original volume's contents: a Foreword by Stanley South and articles by Ferguson, Deetz, Binford, Glas……続きを見る

In "Die südamerikanischen Republiken" bietet Thomas Cleland Dawson eine umfassende Analyse der politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Strukturen der südamerikanischen Länder im frühen 20. Jahrhu……続きを見る

A paratrooper's memoir of survival and close-quarters combat in WWII: "Well worth reading" ( Flight Journal). When Dwayne Burns turned eighteen, he decided he wanted to fight alongside America's be……続きを見る

Weird, wild, and little-known facts about long-lost empires from the New York Times-bestselling author . . . To fight off Roman ships in 300 BC, Carthaginians catapulted live snakes at them The Ath……続きを見る

"The United States was racked by a dispute over the election of President...the verge of another civil conflict...Paul Leland Haworth, Lecturer in History, Columbia University...has been especially ……続きを見る

"Of all the fur traders who wandered over the Northwest, Alexander Henry the Younger has left us the most complete record of the daily life of those who followed his occupation." - Paul Leland Hawor……続きを見る

San Pablo Church has been the sentinel protecting the people of the Cagayan Valley throughout all of the tumultuous and sanguinary history of the Philippines. As one of the oldest churches in the en……続きを見る

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary……続きを見る

Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937–45 is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45. The work integrates C……続きを見る

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is a book composed by the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland that was published in 1899. It contains what he believed was the religious text of a group o……続きを見る

In "The South American Republics (Vol. 1 & 2)", Thomas Cleland Dawson presents an exhaustive examination of the political, economic, and social landscapes of the South American countries during a pi……続きを見る

In this revelatory and moving memoir of perseverance, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of co……続きを見る

One of the perennial pre-Columbian contact theories involves ancient visits by the Chinese to America. This is made plausible for several reasons. First of all, the voyage around the great circle ro……続きを見る

This is essentially an ethnography of practical magic with an Italian flavor. We meet the Goddess of Truffles, learn the details of divining by oil, fire and molten lead; how to bring back the dead,……続きを見る

The reader is probably aware that during the Middle Ages, Virgil, who had always retained great fame as a poet, and who was kindly regarded as almost a Christian from a conjectured pious prophecy in……続きを見る