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 New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families offers an illuminating exploration of the societal transformations in Maharashtra during a pivotal era in Indian history.
Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement traces the contested history of America's vast federal lands and the political, cultural, and legal battles that have shaped their fate.
The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families offers an illuminating exploration of the societal transformations in Maharashtra during a pivotal era in Indian history.
Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles by Grace Heilman Stimson recovers the largely neglected early history of organized labor in southern California, situating the city's unions within the broader trajectory of American labor and industrial relations.
A guide to the identification of California amphibians and reptiles includes suggestions on collecting and studying species as well as information on treating poisonous snake bites.
Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles by Grace Heilman Stimson recovers the largely neglected early history of organized labor in southern California, situating the city's unions within the broader trajectory of American labor and industrial relations.
A guide to the identification of California amphibians and reptiles includes suggestions on collecting and studying species as well as information on treating poisonous snake bites.
Davis McEntire's Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live.
Employing fresh, innovative readings, Edgardo Colon-Emeric examines and underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley--and finds them, surprisingly, largely complementary.
Davis McEntire's Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live.
Desde los campesinos e inquilinos del Chile colonial hasta las huelgas y movilizaciones que marcaron el estallido social de 2019, este libro traza un recorrido exhaustivo por más de dos siglos de historia laboral en Chile, configurada tanto por los inicios de la modernización y la formación del proletariado, como por los desafíos contemporáneos derivados de la globalización y la fragmentación sindical.
Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald Roden offers the first sustained exploration of the daily life, values, and rituals of Japan's prewar higher schoolselite, all-male academies that prepared a fraction of one percent of the nation's youth for the Imperial Universities.
Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald Roden offers the first sustained exploration of the daily life, values, and rituals of Japan's prewar higher schoolselite, all-male academies that prepared a fraction of one percent of the nation's youth for the Imperial Universities.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.
In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent.
The Elites of Barotseland: 1878-1969 offers a comprehensive political history of Zambia's Western Province, focusing on the Lozi people and their interactions with imperial powers, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Letters from California: 1846-1847 offers an unparalleled glimpse into California's early days, written during the transformative period surrounding the Mexican-American War.
Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields--the history of childhood and world history--to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined.
Letters from California: 1846-1847 offers an unparalleled glimpse into California's early days, written during the transformative period surrounding the Mexican-American War.
This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies.
