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This work examines the ominous prelude to the Battle of the Bulge and reveals one of the US Army's bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944, the American army had pushed through Belgium almost unopposed. As small units advanced into the hilly...

Kentucky's rich archaeological heritage spans thousands of years, and the Commonwealth remains fertile ground for study of the people who inhabited the midcontinent before, during, and after European settlement. This long-awaited volume brings together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423958Author Don SpritzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 449Imprint Mountain PressPublisher Mountain PressWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

This history of Galveston provides on overview of the city's past and provides readers, researchers, and tourists with information about today's historical points of interest.Book InformationISBN 9780875651903Author TCU PressFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This is an account of a Native American family in central Kentucky in the year 1585. Fishes-With-Hands, his wife She-Who-Watches, and their family grind corn, make cooking pots, and build their homes while in their summer village. In autumn, they attend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816513543Author Edmund NequatewaFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

The Ozarks is a place that defies easy categorization. Sprawling across much of Missouri and Arkansas and smaller parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, it is caught on the margins of America's larger cultural regions: part southern, part midwestern, and maybe...

Established barely a decade ago, the New Western History has retold the story of the American West from the point of view of the oppressed, colonized, and conquered. Scholars led by William Cronon, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Richard White, and Donald...

Harlan Hubbard was Kentucky's Thoreau, and his journals are intimate records of a life lived in harmony with nature. For more than fifty years the artist, writer, and homesteader described daily activities and recorded keen observations as he sought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826311108Author Marc SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 207Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She...

How do we draw the lines between "good" and "bad" neighborhoods? How do we know "ghettos"? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798992215007Author Hank GolaFormat HardbackPage Count 395Imprint Tatra PressPublisher Tatra PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 35mm

This post-revisionist study examines the motives and the concerns of the ex-slaves in South Carolina who supported a movement that eventually led to white supremacy.Although most freedmen throughout the states of the former Confederacy were Republicans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715365Author Stephen HaycoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714627Author Nathan DouthitFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityDimensions(mm) 254mm * 180mm...

A long-awaited new edition of the steamboating classic.George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally...

An engaging look at the University's past fifty years, in celebration of its sesquicentennial.Regional/HistoryAn engaging look at the University's past fifty years, in celebration of its sesquicentennial. The University of Minnesota is unique for its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816624430Author Justine KerfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250686Author Elizabeth DaleFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

"A welcome publication, this book will nicely supplement the other books that are now appearing in the field of African American archaeology." --Charles E. Orser Jr., Illinois State University Over the last decade, the field of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572331846Author Rob SimbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714924Author William RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityWeight(grams)...

In 1987, when victims of religious persecution were finally allowed to leave Russia, a flood of immigrants landed on the Pacific shores of North America. By the end of 1992, over 200,000 Jews and Christians had resettled in a land where they had only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006871Author Arland HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006857Author R.G. LiapunovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932839633Author Sarah J. TrabertFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Society for American ArchaeologyPublisher Society for American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877454663Author Drake HokansonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 333g

This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources many now out of print and difficult to locate to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the "New Connecticut" region of Ohio. Four divisions in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251157Author Professor Geoffrey ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946160867Author C W CannonImprint University of LouisianaPublisher University of LouisianaWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891442797Author Charles L. LumpkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Virginia Publishing CorporationPublisher Virginia Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891442629Author Mark AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Virginia Publishing CorporationPublisher Virginia Publishing CorporationDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814208571Author Henry L. HunkerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814208533Author Charles C. ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323570Author Matthey DowneyFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoDimensions(mm) 279mm...

The creation of a library system in Nevada presented formidable challenges. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Nevada had the smallest population of any state in the Union, sparsely scattered over a vast area; most towns were very small; and the...

A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community ""after freedom"", almost three-quarters of a century after...

The result of decades of research, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land presents a thorough and detailed understanding of the Sobaipuri O'odham-arguably the most influential and powerful Indigenous group in southern Arizona in the terminal...

This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the site's importance and sustained...