Indian Women of Early Mexico, Paperback - Susan Schroeder

Reducere. This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active particip...

Reducere. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonqui...

Reducere. Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes. They are a remarkable gr...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Reducere. Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cort s in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521....

Reducere. The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-ce...

African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geograph...

Reducere. DescriptionThe idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery...

Reducere. On July 4, 1796, a group of women gathered in York, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of American independence. They drank tea a...

Reducere. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southe...

Reducere. Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Sila...

Reducere. New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect set...

Reducere. For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indian...

Reducere. Facing Fear depicts the true story of Evelyn (Billie) Frechette, the beloved companion of John Dillinger. The unyielding violence that ravaged the ...

Reducere. This comprehensive view of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans from 200 B.C. through the nineteenth century surveys the rock art of...

Reducere. Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Franklin FolsomIntroduction by: Alfonso OrtizThis award-winning account of the Pueblo Revolt, originally published in 1973 ...

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as acade...

Pan American Women examines U.S. women activists' attempts to advance inter-American cooperation among women and further hemispheric peace between ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo co...

Reducere. In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, ...

Reducere. Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-BiographyThe events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County...

Reducere. Offers a glimpse of a living American Indian religious tradition. This book includes descriptions of the selection and training of a medicine perso...

Reducere. In 1888, five young bachelors emigrate from Stranda, Norway, with a dream to become land barons in America. In southern California they pool their ...

Reducere. Facing Fear depicts the true story of Evelyn (Billie) Frechette, the beloved companion of John Dillinger. The unyielding violence that ravaged the ...

Reducere. No matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you ha...

Reducere. Spiritual experience is a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. Moving from the Native American tale "The Creat...

Reducere. New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect set...

DescriptionIn Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in earl...

This volume presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaque a and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. These rem...

Reducere. The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended . . . --Choice . . . the book challenges assumpt...

Reducere. In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missio...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States,...

Reducere. This is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian tr...

Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pi...

Reducere. A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians C-SPAN's yearlong histo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like m...

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans ...

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how P...

Reducere. The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harve...

Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...