A Poetics of Modernity is a scholarly edition of theoretically significant writing on theatre by
modern Indian theatre practitioners, in English and in English translation from nine other languages. The selections are drawn from book-length works, essays, lectures, prefatory materials, ...
Winner, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award (American Society for Ethnohistory) Comanches have engaged Euro-Americans' curiosity for
three centuries. Their relations with Spanish, French, and Anglo-Americans on the southern Plains have become a highly resonant part of the mythology of the American ...
The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has
become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zontek’s account of Native peoples’ efforts to repopulate the ...
Women in charge of houses and estates wore long chains holding important household items around
their waist e.g. keys to bedrooms, storerooms, or tea supplies. Essential items were also carried eg. notebook and pen, a watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or ...
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York
Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the ...
From empire to exile explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62),
one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of ...
This unique book provides a complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the
San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of ...
This history concerns the wars with the Native Americans, as the United States expanded westward
and sought to exert its control over greater portions of North America.The hostilities narrated include some of the most famous actions such as the campaign ...