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Philip Henry Gosse
Philip Henry Gosse’s detailed watercolors of Alabama’s native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the …
Lincoln's Trident
In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil …
Archipelagoes of My South
"The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible" writes the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the Caribbean, the analogous idea of a …
Speaking with the Ancestors
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native …
Building a Nation
Examines the growth of the Chickasaw Nation and argues that it is using museums and heritage sites as places to define itself as a coherent and legitimate contemporary Indian …
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated …
Eclipse of Empires
Eclipse of Empires analyses the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of …
Charles Valentine Riley
Riley propelled entomology from a collector's parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age. This definitive biography is the first …
Building Back Better in India
Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstructionBuilding Back Better in India: Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami addresses …
Archaeology below the Cliff
First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation. Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society …
Hemingway & Women
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America's foremost writers.Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist …
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth …