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Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900: In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture 1884-1936 (Hardcover)

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.... more

Skylark Meets Meadowlark : Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature (Hardcover)

A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas... more

American Literature Readings in the 21st Elizabeth Spencer s Complicated Cartographies: Reimagining Home the South and Southern Literary Production (Hardcover)

This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern... more

Reimagining Shakespeare s Playhouse: Early Modern Staging Conventions in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

An examination of the recreation of Renaissance staging traditions in modern performances. `Provocative very readable and extremely widely researched; it will be an important intervention in many ongoing debates. LUCY MUNRO Senior Lecturer in English... more

Race and Culture in the American West Series: Freedom s Racial Frontier : African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West (Series #13) (Hardcover)

Between 1940 and 2010 the black population of the American West grew from 710 400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and... more

William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West: Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill s Wild West (Series #6) (Hardcover)

Beautifully designed Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West presents a new perspective on the art innovation and advertising acumen that created the international frontier experience of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Visions of the Big Sky : Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West (Series #5) (Hardcover)

From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border the northern Rocky Mountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive power. In Visions of the Big Sky Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its... more

Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover): East Winds West Winds (Hardcover)

Originally published in Cairo in 1998 this carefully crafted novel represents a welcome addition to a body of literature that has so far received less than the attention it merits by comparison with that of Egypt and the Levant. Set among the oil wells... more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Placing Memory : A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (Series #3) (Hardcover)

Placing Memory is a powerful visual record of the internment. Featuring Todd Stewart’s stunning color photographs of the sites as they appear today the book provides a rigorous visual survey of the physical features of the camps—roads architectural... more

Problems in American History: American West (Hardcover)

Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by... more

American Crossroads: Stranger Intimacy : Contesting Race Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Series #31) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified collaborative and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada in... more

Arab American Writing: Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader s Guide (Hardcover)

Within the spectrum of American literary traditions Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainly a product of the twentieth century and only started to flourish in the past thirty years. While this... more

Studies in American Popular History and Culture: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State (Hardcover)

A prominent early feminist abolitionist and civil rights advocate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of... more

Pre-Owned The Pony Express: Bringing Mail to the American West Milestones in History Hardcover Tim McNeese

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The Nation s Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West (Hardcover)

It is the largest landholder in America overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness timber... more

Barricades : The First African-American West Point Cadets and Their Constant Fight for Survival (Hardcover)

It was not until well into the 20th Century that West Point became fully integrated and the backstory of how this came about is the subject of this compelling work. It is a story that is both shameful and praiseworthy a tale of young African-Americans... more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet : An Impressionist at Glacier National Park (Series #7) (Hardcover)

German Impressionist artist Julius Seyler had already made a name for himself in Europe when America beckoned. While in St. Paul Minnesota he encountered Louis Hill head of the Great Northern Railroad who wanted to encourage travel to Montana’s newly... more

Near East to Far West : Fictions of French and American Colonialism (Hardcover)

A new look at French Orientalism’s influence on the art of the American West showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the... more

Voice in the American West: Llano Estacado : An Island in the Sky (Hardcover)

The Llano Estacado Coronado’s legendary “staked plains � comprises all or part of thirty-three counties in Texas and four in New Mexico. This enormous island of grass covers approximately 32 000 square miles of arid prairie used primarily today... more

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (Hardcover)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation by MacArthur Genius and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss the... more

Pre-Owned Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West (Hardcover) 031286311X 9780312863111

All of history is mystery Dale L. Walker says and he proves his point in this lively humorous--and rational--approach to the West s greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett for example go down swinging Ol Betsy defending the ramparts of the Alamo--or was he... more

Faces of the Frontier : Photographic Portraits from the American West 1845–1924 (Hardcover)

Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders statesmen soldiers laborers activists criminals and others all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shanty-town and frontier outpost on the... more

Mary Austin and the American West (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

Mary Austin (1868-1934)--eccentric independent and unstoppable--was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin s first look at her new home glimpsed from California s Tejon Pass reset the course of her life changed her horizons and... more

Islam of the Global West: Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures (Hardcover)

This book sheds light on the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (BMF) one of North America s major Sufi movements and one of the first to establish a Sufi shrine in the region. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the BMF offering new insight into... more

The Civilization of the American Indian Series: Journey to the West : The Alabama and Coushatta Indians (Series #256) (Hardcover)

When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples the Alabamas and Coushattas made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby... more

Black Cowboys of Rodeo : Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West (Hardcover)

Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years’ worth of firsthand cowboy stories set against the backdrop of Reconstruction Jim Crow segregation the civil rights movement and eventually the integration of a racially divided country. more

Pre-Owned Yellowstone Moran: Painting the American West (Hardcover) 0670011320 9780670011322

Follow Tom Moran on an unbelievable real-life adventure! In the summer of 1871 a young painter named Thomas Moran joined a team of scientists heading for the untamed land called ?the Yellowstone. He couldn t believe what he found there steaming... more

Pre-Owned A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man an Animal and American West Hardcover R. D. Rosen

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Mormon Convert Mormon Defector : A Scottish Immigrant in the American West 1848–1861 (Hardcover)

Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his native Scotland in the mid-1840s. The uncertainty his family faced in a rapidly industrializing economy the political turmoil erupting across Europe the welter of competing... more

West Across the Pacific: American Involvement in East Asia from 1898 to the Vietnam War (Hardcover)

This book addresses the problem of a country telling a grand narrative to itself that does not hold up under closer examination a narrative that leads to possibly avoidable war. In particular the book explains and questions the narrative the United... more

Pre-Owned Backlands: A Novel of the American West Thorndike Press Large Print Core Hardcover Michael McGarrity

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Pre-Owned American Pie (Hardcover 9780060183578) by Michael Lee West

9780060183578. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 324. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 324 p. Acclaimed for her uniquely colorful and evocative Southern voice the author of She Flew the Coop and Crazy Ladies broadens her... more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Charles Deas and 1840s America (Series #4) (Hardcover)

This handsome volume—featuring more than 150 illustrations 70 in color—is the first book exclusively devoted to Charles Deas. In two major essays Carol Clark presents Deas’s haunting biography and complex art—works that embodied Americans’... more

Pre-Owned Ranching Traditions ~ Legacy of the American West Hardcover Kathleen Jo Ryan

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West Side Story : Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical (Hardcover)

West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical presents a major scholarly study of the famous American musical West Side Story viewing the work from cultural historical and musical perspectives. From the mambo craze of the 1950s to the... more

Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory (Hardcover)

Conventional literary representations of Western American history repress the violent conquest central to U.S. westward expansion through images of open space autonomous individualism and masculine heroism. In particular the genre of autobiography has... more

The Trilogy of North American Waters : West Coast East Coast Mississippi River (Hardcover)

No photographer until David Freese has explored the various and wondrous landscapes along the Pacific Ocean in such depth making this the first book to look comprehensively at what makes the natural beauty of this particular coast so memorable. more

Pre-Owned The Saturday Evening Post Saga of the American West (Hardcover) 0893870439 9780893870430

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