15,919円 This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with ...

3,663円 How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture. Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Ame...

1,408円 Colonel Hugh Clark was born on May 6th, 1867 on a farm on the Tenth Concession north of Kincardine, Ontario. He was a schoolteacher, a newspaperman, Lieutenant Colonel in the 32nd Bruce Regiment, and both a Provincial and Federal politician. He was still writing newspaper articles up until his de...

1,128円 This is the story of how an unknown and lowly Englishman came to be thrust onto the international stage with world-changing effect. While Thomas Paine is known by all Americans as one of their founding fathers, he remains relatively obscure in Great Britain. Thomas Paine's skill as a writer was r...

4,222円 Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and s...

500円 Adam's Treasure, or the Lost Adams Diggings, is a fantastic tale of lost gold buried in the New Mexico desert. It is the story of gold prospector Adams, and his group of miners, who had travelled to a canyon, with a stream that had egg-sized chunks of gold. Most of the group was massacred, but no...

330円 The submitted work was done with a word processor that was on a donated smartphone from freelance anthology contributor and staffing recruiter, Quinn Stokes of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Final typography was performed by Nickolaus A. Pacione, a year after doing his report on the Covid-19 ...

1,500円 Ausgezeichnet als bestes Jugendbuch mit dem deutschen Jugendbuchpreis 1965 Frederik Hetmann hat mit viel Interesse und Liebe amerikanische Volksbücher, Sagen, Legenden, Märchen, Balladen und Lieder gesammelt, in der deutschen Sprache neu gestaltet und in vier Kapiteln - "Der Osten", "Der Westen",...

1,326円 The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which ”civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples we...

1,326円 In Accompanying, Staughton Lynd distinguishes two strategies of social change. The first, characteristic of the 1960s Movement in the United States, is “organizing.” The second, articulated by Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, is “accompaniment.” The critical difference is that in accompany...

5,017円 A notable contribution to North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across a broad region that encompasses the C...

1,793円 In this timely, much-needed bookーa blend of theology and spiritual memoirーtheologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural "whitemalegod" and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us ...