Leland - Social & Cultural Studies 1

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

Découvrez le guide pratique essentiel sur les bienfaits de la thérapie, une ressource incontournable pour explorer les multiples avantages de ce précieux outil. Plongez dans un univers où la thérapi……続きを見る

This book examines how “colorblind” policies perpetuate racial bias by masking the structural and systemic roots of inequality. Leland Ware critically examines the persistence of racial inequality i……続きを見る

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a com……続きを見る

In this provocative political analysis, Leland Stenehjem examines the stark philosophical contrasts between America's two major political parties and their implications for the nation's future. Writ……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

Imagine a country where election results are contested by those in power. Where violent mobs are praised as patriots. Where trust in the press, the courts, and even your own vote is undermined ー al……続きを見る

Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections……続きを見る

Alaska Airline Captain Robert Pfeil was the scion of an Alaskan pioneer family. His sister Muriel was a winner in her own right. Owner of Alaska's most successful travel agency, routinely voted one ……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

Le multiculturalisme et la laïcité interpellent l’intime et renvoient bien souvent à des convictions profondes dont l’expression peut susciter passions, querelles et violences. C’est notamment le ca……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

Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consolidation as a way of achieving efficiencies of sc……続きを見る

The Gypsi people are an ethnic group with origins in South Asia. Now officially called the Romani people are a widely dispersed ethnic group with the largest concentrated populations in Europe espec……続きを見る

This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that’s harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challe……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

Located a mere fifteen minutes from Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley is an incubator for California's new ethnic politics. Here, Latinos and Asian Americans are the dominant groups. Politics are ……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

100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals. WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant. Here is the ultimate collection of th……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

"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

Agriculture is facing unprecedented scrutiny for its social and environmental impacts. Many of the key choices it must make are fundamentally about ethics. Key issues in agricultural ethics explores……続きを見る

L’ouvrage L’état de l’Acadie (2021), dirigé par Michelle Landry, Dominique Pépin-Filion et Julien Massicotte, se lit comme une invitation, une porte ouverte à la réflexion sur des sujets aussi diver……続きを見る

Restorative justice, realized in states and communities across the world, is viewed as an innovative framework and growing global social movement, providing a foundation for fairness and accountabil……続きを見る

¿El mercado inmobiliario te parece confuso y estresante? ¿Te has preguntado cómo es posible comprar una casa con las dificultades económicas que existen hoy en día? ¿Cómo saber si tendrás lo suficie……続きを見る

The horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen's reign of terror As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the se……続きを見る

**FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB "Fascinating...The great strength……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