Lord Keith, a Scottish admiral who rose to prominence serving His Majesty from 1761 to 1815, ended his career by overseeing Napoleon’s surrender in 1815. Born George Keith Elphinstone, Keith at
Pierre-Louis offers a new perspective on the strategies Haitian immigrants used to adapt to life in the United States and to shield themselves from the harsh discrimination they faced as a minority. S
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Based on anthropological and historical research in Puerto Rico from 1996 to 2002, Perez's study explains how and why state intervention has retarded the development of small-scale fishing economies b
Native peoples living around the Gulf of Mexico had much in common, from the time of the earliest hunter-fisher-gatherers onward. There have been hypotheses of prehistoric interaction between the sout
Puerto Rican writers from the island and mainland have long used a variety of comic genres and forms to affirm an autonomous national identity and resist cultural hegemony and assimilation. The use of
"An enormous amount of academic literature has been published on Nasserism since the 1950s and, to my mind, Rethinking Nasserism is without a doubt the last word on the subject. . . . An outs
Each reptile is illustrated with a color photograph accompanied by a range map detailing where it can be found. Descriptions provide specific details on appearance, size, behavior, and venomous quali
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The story of Georgia’s Indians from elephant hunts to the European invasion.Spanning 12,000 years, this scientifically accurate and very readable book guides readers through the prehistoric and histor
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"If you have ever wondered about the Indian tribes who lived in the American Southeast at the time of European settlement, this book is for you. . . . Eleven of the nation’s top historical archaeologi
"If you have ever wondered about the Indian tribes who lived in the American Southeast at the time of European settlement, this book is for you. . . . Eleven of the nation’s top historical archaeologi
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