Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks, Paperback - Melissa Otis

Reducere. The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented...

Reducere. In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but h...

Reducere. Explores the competing understandings of how best to manage the Adirondack Mountains. Philip G. Terrie introduces the key players and events that h...

Reducere. His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non...

Reducere. In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and sc...

Reducere. In this title, David Tatham demonstrates that Winslow Homer's 'Adirondack oils and watercolours constitute a highly original examination of the hum...

Reducere. This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, and presents to an anglophone audience a vast corpus of previously inaccessible eth...

Reducere. In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping ...

Reducere. In this book, Rice offers a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni "Longhouse People, " also known as the Iroquois...

Reducere. When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, acr...

Reducere. Surviving Conquest is a history of the Yavapai Indians, who have lived for centuries in central Arizona. Although primarily concerned with survival...

In this book, Rice offers a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni "Longhouse People, " also known as the Iroquois...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Albert HouraniAfterword by: Malise RuthvenUpon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the defin...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Why is a region in northern Italy called Lombardy?It was named after the Germanic barbarians known as the Lombards. As one of several founding ethn...

Reducere. This book relates the history of railroad activity during that robust era that witnessed the most intense timber harvest ever undertaken in the Adi...

Reducere. Did you know that the barbarian tribe known as the Franks were the founders of present-day France?After assimilating with the Romans in the imperia...

Reducere. The many congressional acts and plans for the administration of Indian affairs in the West often resulted in confusion and misapplication. Only rar...

"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fin...

Reducere. Some of the northern Adirondacks' most beloved ski areas have sadly not survived the test of time despite the pristine powder found from the High P...

Adriatic recounts the shared history of the countries around the sea, from Italy to Croatia and beyond, from the Romans to the present.Publisher: A...

Reducere. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane an...

Reducere. DescriptionWarren's spectacularly detailed account of the American War of Independence remains an authoritative, much-read source on the subject: t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe impact on history of the Sea Peoples and ancient Hebrew/Phoenician seafaring explorers cannot be over-emphasized. If you can never s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the Unite...

Reducere. The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and e...

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormo...

Reducere. Hilaire Belloc describes the European Jewish diaspora, its contributions to the life and intellectual culture of the continent, and the undercurren...

A history of Great Britain and its former colonies and possessions, from Caesar's invasions to the beginning of the First World War.

Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century - 'Magnificently provoking' New Statesman

Reducere. The nine Native tribes of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula--the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port ...

New B-format paperback - The Baltic Story recounts the shared history of the countries around the Baltic, from the events of a thousand years ago t...

A core text for introduction to Canadian history courses offered out of history departments nation-wide.Publisher: Oxford University Press, CanadaA...

The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia.