American Indian Stories of Success: New Visions of Leadership in Indian Country
ISBN: 9781440831409 / Angielski / Twarda / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is written primarily for those young leaders who are beginning careers where they work with Indian tribes and organizations. Each of the stories found in the book represent significant challenges and barriers, along with the reflections of having lived these experiences to become a stronger leader. This book can help younger leaders avoid the mistakes of the past and will help them develop the skills that will sustain them. The book is organized around four styles of leadership found in American Indian society. It presents a graphic model of leadership style and then... This book is written primarily for those young leaders who are beginning careers where they work with Indian tribes and organizations. Each of the ... |
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Ancient Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico
ISBN: 9780521690447 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book begins with Cuicuilco, a predecessor that arose around 400 BCE, then traces Teotihuacan from its founding in approximately 150 BCE to its collapse around 600 CE. It describes the city's immense pyramids and other elite structures. It also discusses the dwellings and daily lives of commoners, including men, women, and...
First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located i...
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135,95 zł |
Ancient Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico
ISBN: 9780521870337 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book begins with Cuicuilco, a predecessor that arose around 400 BCE, then traces Teotihuacan from its founding in approximately 150 BCE to its collapse around 600 CE. It describes the city's immense pyramids and other elite structures. It also discusses the dwellings and daily lives of commoners, including men, women, and...
First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located i...
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433,17 zł |
Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
ISBN: 9780801434150 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, including the Pequot War of 1637, King Philip's War of 1675 76, and the northeastern Wabanaki conflicts of 1676 1749. When the wartime conquest of Indians ceased, New Englanders turned to the courts to get control of their labor, or imported Indians from Florida and the... In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved ... |
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241,79 zł |
Marie, ou l'esclavage aux Etats Unis
ISBN: 9781505609745 / Francuski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SUR LA CONDITION SOCIALE ET POLITIQUE DES NEGRES ESCLAVES ET DES GENS DE COULEUR AFFRANCHIS. L'existence de deux millions d'esclaves au sein d'un peuple chez lequel l'egalite sociale et politique a atteint son plus haut developpement; l'influence de l'esclavage sur les m urs des hommes libres; l'oppression qu'il fait peser sur les malheureux soumis a la servitude; ses dangers pour ceux meme en faveur desquels il est etabli; la couleur de la race qui fournit les esclaves; le phenomene de deux populations qui vivent ensemble, se touchent, sans jamais se confondre, ni se meler l'une a l'autre;...
SUR LA CONDITION SOCIALE ET POLITIQUE DES NEGRES ESCLAVES ET DES GENS DE COULEUR AFFRANCHIS. L'existence de deux millions d'esclaves au sein d'un peup...
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Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
ISBN: 9780830844234 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books from 2015 The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. The history of North America is marred by atrocities committed against Native peoples. Indigenous cultures were erased in the name of Christianity. As a result, to this day few Native Americans are followers of Jesus. However, despite the far-reaching effects of colonialism, some Natives have forged culturally authentic ways to follow the way of Jesus. In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous expression of the Christian faith among the Native...
One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books from 2015 The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. The history of North America is ma...
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The Missouri Expedition 1818-1820: The Journal of Surgeon John Gale and Related Documents
ISBN: 9780806151397 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States government protect its territory in the West. To remedy the situation, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun planned a military occupation of the upper Mississippi and Missouri River valleys through a cordon of army posts stretching from Green Bay on the Great lakes west to Montana. Calhoun projected a troop movement, called the Yellowstone Expedition, which grew from one expedition to three-the Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Scientific expeditions. The...
Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States governme...
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93,77 zł |
The Mantle Site: An Archaeological History of an Ancestral Wendat Community
ISBN: 9780759121010 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social processes that led to its formation, the political and economic lives of its inhabitants, and their relationships to other populations in northeastern...
This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north ...
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201,50 zł |
Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City
ISBN: 9780807160213 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Indians and Wannabes: Native American Powwow Dancing in the Northeast and Beyond
ISBN: 9780813061979 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An excellent introduction to the many complexities and facets of powwows. It entices the reader to recognize the importance of bodies in motion--in particular, dance--in forging social worlds and mediating power relations."--Zoila Mendoza, author of Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru "An outstanding interpretation of Native American powwow dancing that reveals its significance in the context of colonial and postcolonial history and across cultures and borders. As dancer and dance scholar, Axtmann brings a keen eye and her own kinesthetic... "An excellent introduction to the many complexities and facets of powwows. It entices the reader to recognize the importance of bodies in motion--i... |
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111,32 zł |
Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians
ISBN: 9781469621203 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and political--consistently demonstrating how...
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of Amer...
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Artifacts of the Battle of Little Big Horn: Custer, the 7th Cavalry & the Lakota and Cheyenne Warriors
ISBN: 9780764351471 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a first-of-a-kind comprehensive, photographic essay regarding surviving artifacts of Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn - some never before published. Years were spent photographing and acquiring artifacts in museums and private collections, which are presented here in vivid, high-resolution color photographs, shot from various angles with the researcher and collector in mind. The photographs are catalogued under chapters devoted to the battle, Custer's 7th Cavalry, and the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who fought them. Hundreds of photographic images accompanying the...
This book is a first-of-a-kind comprehensive, photographic essay regarding surviving artifacts of Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn - some ...
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231,67 zł |
The Papers of Chief John Ross (2 Volume Set)
ISBN: 9780806118659 / Angielski / Twarda / 1598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Urban American Indians: Reclaiming Native Space
ISBN: 9781440832079 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. City-dwelling American Indians are part of both the ongoing ethnic history of American cities in the 20th and 21st centuries and the ancient history of American Indians. Today, more than three-quarters of American Indians live in cities, having migrated to urban areas in the 1950s because of influences such as the Termination and Relocation policy of the federal government, which was designed to end the legal status of tribes, and because of the draw of employment, housing, and educational opportunities. This book documents how North America was home to many ancient urban Indian... City-dwelling American Indians are part of both the ongoing ethnic history of American cities in the 20th and 21st centuries and the ancient histor... |
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445,10 zł |
The Indian Question
ISBN: 9781507867792 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the 3d of March, 1871, Congress declared that -hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty.-
On the 3d of March, 1871, Congress declared that -hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged ...
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Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
ISBN: 9781469621227 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant sideshow to the French and Indian War, eventually led to the regeneration of a British-Cherokee alliance. Tortora reveals how the war destabilized the South Carolina colony and threatened the white coastal elite, arguing that the political and military success of the Cherokees led colonists to a...
In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. T...
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197,46 zł |
Tribes of California
ISBN: 9781511722407 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tribes of California is an authoritative overview of Native American tribes in California.
Tribes of California is an authoritative overview of Native American tribes in California.
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78,94 zł |
Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1807-1845
ISBN: 9780761865865 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political developments in Georgia have always been baffling to those who did not live there. This work picks up the story of the evolution of Georgia political parties where the author left it in his first book, Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 (1986), carrying the story through 1845, by which date parties in Georgia actually mirrored those at the national level. It is a complicated story, involving, among other things, the legacy of the Yazoo Land Fraud; the development of political parties on the national level; and, especially, the presence of the Creek...
Political developments in Georgia have always been baffling to those who did not live there. This work picks up the story of the evolution of Georgia ...
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679,12 zł |
Through Indian Sign Language: The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889-1897 Volume 274
ISBN: 9780806147277 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a Kiowa soldier named Iseeo, Scott collected three volumes of information on American Indian life and culture a body of ethnographic material conveyed through Plains Indian Sign Language (in which Scott was highly accomplished) and recorded in handwritten English. This remarkable resource the largest... Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, la... |
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Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief
ISBN: 9780806151922 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 18101874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American intrusions and Mexican troops in the turbulent border region of nineteenth-century Arizona. Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports, eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent chief granted in the last decade of his life. "Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief "brings together the most revealing of these documents to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted... A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 18101874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American ... |
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163,98 zł |