Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf SouthIn The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N.
Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers.
Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815.
Important considerations in identifying editions, with some bibliographical absurdities; book catalogues; and a discussion of essayists, particularly Montaigne and Lamb.
The two-hundredth anniversary in 1976 of the publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations emphasized the already evident new interest in the relationship between Smith's social and political thought and his economic theory.
A listing of periodicals, serials, and continuation publications subscribed to by four leading American educational institutions, arranged in thirty-one classified subjects, elaborately indexed and provided with cross-references.
This is a scholar's Baedeker for locating and using most efficiently the documents in the diplomatic archives of Western Europe, including Greece and Finland.
This work is an analytic bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift, containing a listing of every known edition or issue of Swift's work down to the year 1814 (except for the section "e;Biography and Criticism"e; which extends from 1709 to 1895).
Seldom, if ever, has there lived in the United States a foreign-born writer who has won such universal acclaim and made such an impact on the American literary scene as Thomas Mann.
The Nexus, so-named because of the operational intersection or Nexus of faith and culture, is an alphabetized manual of cultural artifacts of significance to Christians.
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published.
From the #1New York Timesbestselling World Almanac comes a fullcolor, fulloffun, oversize book packed with thousands of awesome facts about science, nature, and peopleeverything on planet Earth and beyond.
Published annually for more than eighty years, the Shooter's Bible is the most comprehensive and sought-after reference guide for new firearms and their specifications, as well as for thousands of guns that have been in production and are currently on the market.
In The New York Wildlife Encyclopedia, nationally known naturalist Scott Shupe has collected information on all the wildlife that reside in the Empire State.
Check out the weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of alphabetized oddities:HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT ENJOY SPICY FOOD (theres a reason no one sells Tabasco-flavored cat food).
NBC Today show nutrition and diet guru Madelyn Fernstrom and award-winning neuroscientist and pharmacologist John Fernstrom partnering with AARP present the ultimate guide to food and medicine interaction.
For any runner who loves hitting the pavement and conquering half-, full-, and ultra-marathons, getting injured is a terrifying, and often heartbreaking, setback.
In a mothership full of entertaining and informative chapters, authors Stephen Spignesi and William Birnes, writers of many books dealing with the intriguing, weird, and unexplained, shed a revealing beam of light on the UFO phenomenon.
Learn to fly a plane according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulationsThe most complete guide to the rules of aviation accessible anywhereContains all of the information needed to operate safely in US airspace and is fully updatedIf you are an aviation enthusiast or an aviator, you need to have the newest edition of the FAR/AIM.
