<p>This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes, paying special attention to sites with deep Indigenous histories—Ulu<span style="text-decoration:underline;">r</span>u-Kata Tju<span style="text-decoration:underline;">t</span>a National Park and the Burrup Peninsula along the Pilbara Coast in Australia, the Altai Mountains of northwestern Mongolia, and Prince William Sound in Alaska. For many communities, landscapes such as these have long been associated with cultural identity and memories of important and difficult events, as well as political struggles related to nation-state boundaries, sovereignty, and knowledge claims. </p><p> </p>
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This book presents collaborative bioarchaeological research at the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering insights into the experiences of Native communities during early colonization on California’s Pacific coast.
In <em>Embracing Protestantism</em>, John Catron argues that people of African descent in America who adopted Protestant Christianity during the eighteenth century did not become African Americans but instead assumed more fluid Atlantic-African identities.
Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of <em>Mississippian Beginnings</em> reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland populations, they discuss signs of migrations, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past.
This book is a compendium of ecological information on 244 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines found in the northern half of the Florida peninsula and in the Florida panhandle.
A collection of essays that grapple honestly with the complexities of the issues faced by the man who sat in the White House prior to the towering figure of Lincoln, and contribute to a deeper understanding of a turbulent and formative era.
In this book—one of the first ecocritical explorations of both Irish literature and modernism—Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature.