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  • Their Determination to Remain

    A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina

    by Lance Greene ...
    Series series Indians and Southern History
    The remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of TearsDuring the 1838 forced Cherokee removal by the US government, a number of close-knit Cherokee communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains refused to relinquish their homelands, towns, and way of life. Using a variety of tactics, hundreds of Cherokees avoided the encroaching US Army and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • American Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850

    Edited by Lance Greene, Mark R. Plane ...
    Provides a clear view of the realities of the economic and social interactions between Native groups and the expanding Euro-American populationThe last quarter of the 18th century was a period of extensive political, economic, and social change in North America, as the continent-wide struggle between European superpowers waned. Native groups found themselves enmeshed in the market economy and new ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Trace

    Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    by Lauret Savoy ...
    **Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nature's Metropolis

    Chicago and the Great West

    by William Cronon ...
    A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue;Michael D. Green ...
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • North American Indians

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Making of America's Culture Regions

    by Richard L. Nostrand ...
    This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Essential West

    Collected Essays

    by Elliott West ...
    Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on West’s wide array of interests, this collection of his essays touches on topics ranging from viruses and the telegraph to children, bison, and Larry McMurtry. Drawing from the past three centuries, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Negotiators of Change

    Historical Perspectives on Native American Women

    Edited by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Negotiators of Change covers the history of ten tribal groups including the Cherokee, Iroquois and Navajo -- as well as tribes with less known histories such as the Yakima, Ute, and Pima-Maricopa. The book contests the idea that European colonialization led to a loss of Native American women's power, and instead presents a more complex picture of the adaption to, and subversion of, the economic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Cherokee Diaspora

    An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

    by Gregory D. Smithers ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children

    A Reader and Bibliography

    by Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette F. Molin, Yvonne Wakim, Michael A. Dorris ...
    The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children reveals and discusses these images and cultural stereotypes through writings like Kathy Kerner's previously unpublished essay on Thanksgiving and an essay by Dr. Cornell Pewewardy on Disney's Pocahontas film. This edition ... Read more

    $72.99 USD