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American Indians by Nancy Shoemaker 9780631219958
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $47.88This collection brings together the best recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of... -
Personal Identity Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut) 9780631134329
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $44.60Opposing perspectives offer deep insight into identity Personal Identity explores the idea of identity by way of a debate between prominent philosophers with competing points of view. Richard... -
American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century by Nancy Shoemaker 9780826322890
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Although the general public is not widely aware of this trend, American Indian population has grown phenomenally since 1900, their demographic nadir. No longer a vanishing race, Indians have... -
Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women by Nancy Shoemaker
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57Negotiators 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... -
Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies by Nancy Shoemaker 9780415926751
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.40Clearing 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... -
Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race by Nancy Shoemaker 9781469636122
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28In 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... -
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji by Nancy Shoemaker 9781501740343
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $120.38Full 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... -
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji by Nancy Shoemaker 9781501761690
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $26.95Full 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... -
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America by Nancy Shoemaker 9780195307108
RRP: $48.36Booksplease Price: $32.40The relationship between American Indians and Europeans on America's frontiers is typically characterized as a series of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings based on a vast gulf of difference... -
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 by Devon A. Mihesuah 9780252066771
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominaional Cherokee... -
Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America by James F. Brooks 9780803261945
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.34Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the... -
Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians by Susan Sleeper-Smith 9781469621203
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95A 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... -
A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians by Gunlog Fur 9780812222050
Booksplease Price: $35.91A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating... -
Native Women's History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing by Rebecca Kugel 9780803278318
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68How can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This question is answered by this landmark anthology, an essential guide to the significance, experiences, and... -
Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England by Ann M. Little 9780812219616
Booksplease Price: $33.17In 1678, the Puritan minister Samuel Nowell preached a sermon he called "Abraham in Arms," in which he urged his listeners to remember that "Hence it is no wayes unbecoming a Christian to learn to be... -
Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast by Paige Raibmon
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about "real Indians." Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she... -
A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman by Dawn G. Marsh 9780803248403
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.23"Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman's life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive." Thomas Britten, The... -
A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman by Dawn G. Marsh 9780803275201
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman's life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive." Thomas Britten, The... -
The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War by Michael A. Blaakman
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $47.45Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet... -
Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England by Ann Marie Plane
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $31.94In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found... -
Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England by Ann Marie Plane 9780801432910
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $55.88In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found... -
Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania by William A. Pencak 9780271023854
Booksplease Price: $45.40Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn's legendary treaty with the Lenape at...