Seeking Our Past

Seeking Our Past
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0199873844
ISBN-13 : 9780199873845
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking Our Past by : Sarah Ward Neusius

Seeking Our Past: An Introduction to North American Archaeology offers an up-to-date and engaging introduction to North America's past that also illustrates contemporary archaeological practice. The authors include examples from both North American prehistory and history--drawn from academic archaeology and Cultural Resource Management (CRM)--in order to provide a broad overview of how the continent was settled, what archaeologists have learned about life across the North American culture areas, and how current archaeologists research our past. Chapters are enhanced by case studies written especially for this book by the original researchers. Through these case studies readers gain familiarity with particular projects and insight into what archaeologists actually do. In addition, the authors cover such important ethical issues as respecting and working with descendant populations and the need for archaeological stewardship. They also provide valuable information about contemporary practice and careers in archaeology. New to this Edition * Expanded discussion of Paleoindian adaptations * A completely new chapter (13) that covers North American historical archaeology thematically * New and streamlined case studies * Revised and updated "Issues and Debates" and "Clues to the Past" feature boxes and "Faces in Archaeology" profiles * New feature boxes, "Anthropological Themes," which remind students of the broad anthropological research questions listed in Chapter 2 and show where to look for relevant discussions in each chapter

Seeking the Cure

Seeking the Cure
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781439171738
ISBN-13 : 1439171734
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking the Cure by : Ira Rutkow

A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow’s Seeking the Cure, there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine—its triumphal progress from ignorance to science—has proven crucial to Americans’ under-standing of their country and themselves. Seeking the Cure tells the tale of American medicine with a series of little-known anecdotes that bring to life the grand and unceasing struggle by physicians to shed unsound, if venerated, beliefs and practices and adopt new medicines and treatments, often in the face of controversy and scorn. Rutkow expertly weaves the stories of individual doctors—what they believed and how they practiced—with the economic, political, and social issues facing the nation. Among the book’s many historical personages are Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington (whose timely adoption of a controversial medical practice probably saved the Continental Army), Benjamin Rush, James Garfield (who was killed by his doctors, not by an assassin’s bullet), and Joseph Lister. The book touches such diverse topics as smallpox and the Revolutionary War, the establishment of the first medical schools, medicine during the Civil War, railroad medicine and the beginnings of specialization, the rise of the medical-industrial complex, and the thrilling yet costly advent of modern disease-curing technologies utterly unimaginable a generation ago, such as gene therapies, body scanners, and robotic surgeries. In our time of spirited national debate over the future of American health care amid a seemingly infinite flow of new medical discoveries and pharmaceutical products, Rutkow’s account provides readers with an essential historic, social, and even philosophical context. Working in the grand American literary tradition established by such eminent writer-doctors as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Carlos Williams, Sherwin Nuland, and Oliver Sacks, he combines the historian’s perspective with the physician’s seasoned expertise. Capacious, learned, and gracefully told, Seeking the Cure will satisfy armchair historians and doctors alike, for, as Rutkow shows, the history of American medicine is a portrait of America itself.

Seeking History

Seeking History
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Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015050733925
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking History by : Monica Edinger

Seeking History is one of the first books about using primary sources in elementary and middle school classrooms to enhance and deepen students' grapplings with history.

Black Feminist Archaeology

Black Feminist Archaeology
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Publisher : Left Coast Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781598743791
ISBN-13 : 1598743791
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Feminist Archaeology by : Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve historical archaeological practice.

The Seeking

The Seeking
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Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781555538279
ISBN-13 : 1555538274
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Seeking by : Will Thomas

The Seeking is the moving and uplifting story of the Thomas familyÕs time among the people of Westford, Vermont Ñ a life, writes Thomas, Ònot based on race, but on what we and they [were] like as human beings.Ó Back in print for the first time in fifty years, this edition includes a new introduction that situates The Seeking in the canon of twentieth-century black literature, and a new afterword that follows the fortunes of Thomas and his family in the years after its initial publication. The Seeking is both a story of one remarkable African-American family and a story of race relations in mid-century New England.

The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania

The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 920
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ISBN-10 : 9780812250787
ISBN-13 : 0812250788
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania by : Kurt W. Carr

The definitive reference guide to artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolution Pennsylvania is geographically, ecologically, and culturally diverse. The state is situated at the crossroads of several geographic zones and drainage basins which resulted in a great deal of variation in Native American societies. The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is the definitive reference guide to rich artifacts that represent 14,000 years of cultural evolution. This authoritative work includes environmental studies, descriptions and illustrations of artifacts and features, settlement pattern studies, and recommendations for directions of further research. Containing previously unpublished data and representing fifty years of collaborative findings gathered under historic preservation laws, the book is organized into five parts, reflecting five major time periods. Essential for anyone conducting archaeological research in Pennsylvania and surrounding regions, especially professionals conducting surveys and research in compliance with state and federal preservation laws, as well as professors and students engaging in research on specific regions or topics in Middle Atlantic archaeology.

Historical Archaeology

Historical Archaeology
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9781317297079
ISBN-13 : 1317297075
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Historical Archaeology by : Charles E. Orser, Jr.

This book provides a short, readable introduction to historical archaeology, which focuses on modern history in all its fascinating regional, cultural, and ethnic diversity. Accessibly covering key methods and concepts, including fundamental theories and principles, the history of the field, and basic definitions, Historical Archaeology also includes a practical look at career prospects for interested readers. Orser discusses central topics of archaeological research such as time and space, survey and excavation methods, and analytical techniques, encouraging readers to consider the possible meanings of artifacts. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience as an historical archaeologist, the book’s perspective ranges from the local to the global in order to demonstrate the real importance of this subject to our understanding of the world in which we live today. The third edition of this popular textbook has been significantly revised and expanded to reflect recent developments and discoveries in this exciting area of study. Each chapter includes updated case studies which demonstrate the research conducted by professional historical archaeologists. With its engaging approach to the subject, Historical Archaeology continues to be an ideal resource for readers who wish to be introduced to this rapidly expanding global field.

Selu

Selu
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Publisher : Fulcrum Group
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 1555911447
ISBN-13 : 9781555911447
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Selu by : Marilou Awiakta

A weaving of essays, poems, and stories centering on the life- giving story of the Corn-Mother.

Seeking the Historical Cook

Seeking the Historical Cook
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1611172594
ISBN-13 : 9781611172591
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking the Historical Cook by : Kay Moss

"A guide to historical cooking techniques from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century receipt (recipe) books and an examination of how those methods can be used in kitches today"--Dust jacket.

Seeking Our Past

Seeking Our Past
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 728
Release :
ISBN-10 : IND:30000116718242
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking Our Past by : Sarah Ward Neusius

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