The Life and Adventures of George Nidever: 1802-1883 is a fascinating window into the life of a quintessential American frontiersman whose journey spanned the rugged terrains of Tennessee, Missouri, and eventually California.
In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and courierswork rarely acknowledged.
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
The Life and Adventures of George Nidever: 1802-1883 is a fascinating window into the life of a quintessential American frontiersman whose journey spanned the rugged terrains of Tennessee, Missouri, and eventually California.
The Pacific Coast Maritime Shipping Industry, 1930-1948: Volume I: An Economic Profile offers a meticulous examination of an industry pivotal to the economic and historical development of the United States' West Coast.
To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch offers a definitive, lucid account of one of the Northwest Coast's most discussed-and most misunderstood-institutions.
A Literary History of Southern California offers a deep exploration into the evolving cultural and literary identity of a region that has long captured the American imagination.
To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch offers a definitive, lucid account of one of the Northwest Coast's most discussed-and most misunderstood-institutions.
The Pacific Coast Maritime Shipping Industry, 1930-1948: Volume I: An Economic Profile offers a meticulous examination of an industry pivotal to the economic and historical development of the United States' West Coast.
A Literary History of Southern California offers a deep exploration into the evolving cultural and literary identity of a region that has long captured the American imagination.
The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth centurythe white ';banana cowboy' pushing the edges of a tropical frontierwas the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company.
Mucho se aprendía del negocio de vivir en aquel Madrid de las verdes manzanas, tan agrias, en el que cada quien se soñaba, creo yo, el único cuerdo entre tantos locos.
A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their livesand his legacyA scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island.