"The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell"

The Power of Women in Native American Literature

By Patrice Hollrah

From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of life, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94697-1 (Routledge)

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Industrializing Organisms

Introducing Evolutionary History

Edited by Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton

Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94548-6 (Routledge)

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Mark and Livy

The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him

By Resa Willis

Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94774-9 (Routledge)

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Three Nations, One Place

By Martha McCollough

In an intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanche's and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94394-9 (Routledge)

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Problematizing Blackness

Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States

By Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy Hintzen

This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93120-5 (Routledge)

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In the Kingdom of Coal

An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World

By Dan Rottenberg

It was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93522-7 (Routledge)

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America's Political Class Under Fire

The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War

By David A. Horowitz

While the clash between what has been called the "modern" and "undeveloped" worlds has led to America's military involvement in the Middle East and other...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94691-9 (Routledge)

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Freedom Writer

Virginia Foster Durr, Letters From the Civil Rights Years

By Patricia Sullivan

Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, she...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94516-5 (Routledge)

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African Americans and US Popular Culture

By Kevern Verney

This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27528-6 (Routledge)

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The American Indian Mind in a Linear World

American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge

By Donald Fixico

Currently, there are three approaches to studying American Indians: from how white Americans approach Indian studies, from the dynamics or exchange of Indian-white relations and...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94457-1 (Routledge)

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