Takes readers through the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to show how anthropology, as conceptualized by W J McGee, the first president of the American Anthropological Association, showcased itself through programs, static displays, and exhibits for millions of people 'to show each half of the world how the other half lives'.

An intellectual biography of Ephraim Squier (1821-88) and his contributions to the development of the nascent disciplines of archeology and anthropology.

After Nicaragua achieved independence from Spain in 1821, it suffered a series of conflicts culminating in the two-year National War. When that war ended in 1857, Nicaragua was in ruins. This title explores what followed: the intersection of nation-state formation and everyday life in nineteenth-century Nicaragua.

Presents a comprehensive investigation of the primary issue of the first century of Spanish American colonization: the massive system of Indian forced labour, ranging from outright slavery to the encomienda, upon which Spanish colonial society rested. This book traces the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people.

Traces the intimate relationship between the texts published by Willa Cather and William Faulkner between 1922 and 1962.

A memoir of William N Fenton (1908-2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. It reveals the ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of Native-White relations in upstate New York in the twentieth century.

Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, this title presents a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's childhood in the Romanian countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. This book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence.

The West offered new opportunities for middle-class eastern families who endured hardship, uncertainty, and displacement during the Civil War, and struggled to carve out social space in the war's aftermath. This book examines the motivations of late-nineteenth-century middle-class migrants who moved west to build communities.

The Navajo Code was the only battlefield code that Japan never deciphered. This book details the history of the men who created this secret code and used it on the battlefield to help the United States win World War II in the Pacific.

An interdisciplinary and international collection of essays that illuminates the importance and effects of indigenous perspectives for museums. It challenges and complicates the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.

Led by the American explorer David Innes, the human communities have finally overthrown Pellucidar's slave masters, the dreaded Mahars. The peace, however, is temporary, and the Pellucidarian Empire is faced with a new menace, the deadly Korsar pirates. This is the third work in the Pelludicar series from the legendary creator of Tarzan .

Self-centred, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, Kate Riley is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. Kate is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated.

Arguing that the voices of women still need to be heard, this collection assembles a diverse selection of writings to illustrate the daily lives of ordinary and extraordinary women and the historical significance of their thoughts and deeds. It features women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims.

Shows what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W Bush's re-election. This book presents the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment - the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004 - to the need for unity.

Talking about nuclear warfare and other visions of the future, this novel is a prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of human-kind from the rubble. It is written by the author of The Time Machine , War of the Worlds , and other science fiction classics.

Adorno's diagnosis of the crisis of modernist values points back to Hegel's thesis of the end of art and also forward to the postmodernist debate. This title presents an analysis in English of Theodor Adorno's seminal Philosophy of Modern Music , which can be seen as a turning point between modern and postmodern art and theory.

From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely outposts on the frontier. This title tells what happened to a lost legion, unhonored and unsung.

In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland US to Hawaii. Four years later she finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. This memoir recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats.

Offers an integration of the four biblical Gospels into a single account of the life of Jesus. This title explains that the author's goal is a solution to 'the problem of life', not an answer to theological or historical questions. It focuses on the words and teachings of Jesus, what the author regarded as the Church's distortions.