The Greater Chaco Landscape

The Greater Chaco Landscape
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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9781646421701
ISBN-13 : 1646421701
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Greater Chaco Landscape by : Ruth M. Van Dyke

Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon⁠ and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology. Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape. An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes. Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie

Make Your Home Among Strangers

Make Your Home Among Strangers
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781250059666
ISBN-13 : 1250059666
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Make Your Home Among Strangers by : Jennine Capó Crucet

A young, Cuban-American woman is accepted into an elite college right as her home life unravels.

Native American Studies

Native American Studies
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 0803278292
ISBN-13 : 9780803278295
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Native American Studies by : Clara Sue Kidwell

Native American Studies covers key issues such as the intimate relationship of culture to land; the nature of cultural exchange and conflict in the period after European contact; the unique relationship of Native communities with the United States government; the significance of language; the vitality of contemporary cultures; and the variety of Native artistic styles, from literature and poetry to painting and sculpture to performance arts.

After One Hundred Winters

After One Hundred Winters
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780691227146
ISBN-13 : 0691227144
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis After One Hundred Winters by : Margaret D. Jacobs

A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals and communities who are working together to heal historical wounds—and reveals how much we have to gain by learning from our history instead of denying it. Jacobs traces the brutal legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people that has endured since the nation’s founding. Explaining how early attempts at reconciliation succeeded only in robbing tribal nations of their land and forcing their children into abusive boarding schools, she shows that true reconciliation must emerge through Indigenous leadership and sustained relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people that are rooted in specific places and histories. In the absence of an official apology and a federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ordinary people are creating a movement for transformative reconciliation that puts Indigenous land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront. With historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges us to face our past and learn from it, and once we have done so, to redress past abuses. Drawing on dozens of interviews, After One Hundred Winters reveals how Indigenous people and settlers in America today, despite their troubled history, are finding unexpected gifts in reconciliation.

Nazis on the Run

Nazis on the Run
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9780191653773
ISBN-13 : 0191653772
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Nazis on the Run by : Gerald Steinacher

This is the story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America. The Nazi sympathies held by groups and individuals within these organizations evolved into a successful assistance network for fugitive criminals, providing them not only with secret escape routes but hiding places for their loot. Gerald Steinacher skillfully traces the complex escape stories of some of the most prominent Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, showing how they mingled and blended with thousands of technically stateless or displaced persons, all flooding across the Alps to Italy and from there, to destinations abroad. The story of their escape shows clearly just how difficult the apprehending of war criminals can be. As Steinacher shows, all the major countries in the post-war world had 'mixed motives' for their actions, ranging from the shortage of trained intelligence personnel in the immediate aftermath of the war to the emerging East-West confrontation after 1947, which led to many former Nazis being recruited as agents turned in the Cold War.

The New Walt Whitman Studies

The New Walt Whitman Studies
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781108419062
ISBN-13 : 1108419062
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Walt Whitman Studies by : Matt Cohen

Highlights the latest currents in Whitman scholarship and demonstrates how Whitman's work transforms discussions in literary studies.

U.S. History

U.S. History
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Total Pages : 1886
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Synopsis U.S. History by : P. Scott Corbett

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Field of Schemes

Field of Schemes
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9780803285484
ISBN-13 : 0803285485
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Field of Schemes by : Neil deMause

Tests in Print

Tests in Print
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 760
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ISBN-10 : 0910674531
ISBN-13 : 9780910674539
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Tests in Print by : Linda L. Murphy

Pageant-master of the Republic

Pageant-master of the Republic
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:884544123
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Pageant-master of the Republic by : David Lloyd Dowd