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  • Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles

    Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding.Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Native American Whalemen and the World

    Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world’s oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Strange Likeness

    Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking at how much Indians and Europeans had in common. In six chapters, this book compares Indian and European ideas about land, government, recordkeeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • A Strange Likeness

    Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking at how much Indians and Europeans had in common. In six chapters, this book compares Indian and European ideas about land, government, recordkeeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Clearing a Path

    Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies

    by Nancy Shoemaker ...
    Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Forever Magazine Issue 83

    by Neil Clarke, Martin L. Shoemaker, Nancy Kress, Samantha Henderson ...
    Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our December 2021 issue features "Not Far Enough" by Martin L. Shoemaker, "Dear Sarah" by Nancy Kress, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians

    Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O'Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, Scott Manning Stevens ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 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

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  • The Native Ground

    Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    **"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History**New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the YearWith a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.**How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and V.. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Hidden

    by Alasdair Shaw ...
    Series Book 4 - Two Democracies: Revolution
    Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days.Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and ... Read more

    $2.72 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

    $11.99 USD