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Book Asian Coins in the North American West

Download or read book Asian Coins in the North American West written by Marjorie Helen Kleiger Akin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Numismatic Archaeology of North America

Download or read book Numismatic Archaeology of North America written by Marjorie H. Akin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numismatic Archaeology of North America is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in a wide range of North American archaeological sites. It begins with a comprehensive and well-illustrated review of the various coins and tokens that circulated in North America with descriptions of the uses for, and human behavior associated with, each type. The book contains practical sections on standardized nomenclature, photographing, cleaning, and curating coins, and discusses the impacts of looting and of working with collectors. This is an important tool for archaeologists working with coins. For numismatists and collectors, it explains the importance of archaeological context for complete analysis.

Book The Zuni Enigma

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  • Author : Nancy Yaw Davis
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2001-11
  • ISBN : 9780393322309
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Zuni Enigma written by Nancy Yaw Davis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did a group of 13th century Japanese journey to the American Southwest, there to merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? That is the question proposed by an anthropologist in "The Zuni Enigma". 16 illustrations.

Book Visions of the American West

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  • Author : Gerald F. Kreyche
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-11-21
  • ISBN : 0813187559
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Visions of the American West written by Gerald F. Kreyche and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. But the West has seldom been written about with the reflective pen of a philosopher. Offering more than a fresh retelling, in thoroughly human terms, of the major historical events of the nineteenth-century West, Gerald Kreyche also leads the reader in a search for the spirit of the West itself. That spirit was one with the American Dream, which offered freedom, individualism, and self-sufficiency to those strong enough and gutsy enough to heed the call of Manifest Destiny. Although the West was and is the most American part of America itself, its natural wonders, its spacious grandeur, its myths and mystique have captured the hearts and imaginations of people the world over. We have all experienced the quickened pulse at the mention of things indelibly western—tumbleweed, mountain men, high plains, cowboys and Indians, sod houses, coyotes, and grizzlies. And who doesn't react to such bigger-than-life figures as Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill, George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse? The personal humdrum of our times rapidly disappears when, through the magic of western films, TV shows, and books, we vicariously lose ourselves and then find ourselves in the American West of a bygone time. The West, then, produced a quasi-separate culture. And, as each culture must, it gave birth to its own ethos, its own special character, its own tone and set of guiding beliefs. Kreyche contends that in the process of "westering," the veneer of the sophisticated easterner was sloughed off, leaving in sharp outline the frontiersman and the pioneer. In their own manner, these men and women produced a new species of homo americanus.

Book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Annotated Bibliography of Overseas Chinese History and Archaeology - Dixie E. Ehrenreich, Priscilla Wegars, Jonathan Horn, and Karen E. Smith Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 37th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, 21-23 March 1984, Spokane, Washington Terrestrial Oriented Sites in a Marine Environment Along the Southern Oregon Coast - Richard E. Ross A Check List of Columbia Basin Project Papers - Roderick Sprague

Book Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1876-1891 include reports on the internal commerce of the United States, referred to in letters of transmittal as "the volume on commerce and navigation."

Book Annual Report of the Director of the Mint

Download or read book Annual Report of the Director of the Mint written by United States Mint and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese in the Woods

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  • Author : Sue Fawn Chung
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2015-09-30
  • ISBN : 0252097556
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Chinese in the Woods written by Sue Fawn Chung and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.

Book Anual Statements     on the Commerce and Navigation

Download or read book Anual Statements on the Commerce and Navigation written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knowing the West

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  • Author : Mindy N. Besaw
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2024-09-10
  • ISBN : 084783705X
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Knowing the West written by Mindy N. Besaw and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive survey of the art and culture of the American West presents richly diverse works by more than 35 distinct Native American nations considered alongside non-Native artists from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Knowing the West encourages deeper consideration of the variety of cultures that together reflect the complex histories and stories of the American West. Astonishing in range, historical significance, medium, and quality, more than 120 artworks by Native American and non-Native artists are presented—including textiles, baskets, paintings, pottery, beadwork, saddles, and prints—including many by women. The artworks are shown in meaningful dialogue, such as baskets by Elizabeth Hickox (Wiyot/Karuk) juxtaposed with a large-scale California landscape by Albert Bierstadt, or New Mexican tinwork in conversation with a beaded valise by Nellie Two Bear Gates (Dakota), emphasizing influence and exchange and pointing out different ways of thinking about land and place. Multiple texts by a diverse range of scholars with broad-reaching perspectives explore topics such as history and making of Lakota winter counts, the development of saddles and bridles from across cultures, and the influence of the railroad and tourism on Southwestern pottery. This unprecedented volume centers Native voices and perspectives, prompting further thinking and research about the art history of the West.

Book The Origins of the British Empire in Asia  1600   1750

Download or read book The Origins of the British Empire in Asia 1600 1750 written by David Veevers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist interpretation of the origins of the British Empire in Asia from 1600 to 1750.

Book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West

Download or read book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.

Book Bulletin of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics

Download or read book Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: