My Life East and West by William S Hart; Martin Ridge (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #92 | Reading Level: near fine
From Mexican Days to the Goldrush - Memoirs of James Wilson Marshall and Edward Gould Buffum Who Grew Up with California by Doyce B. Nunis (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #91 | Reading Level: near fine
Indian Women of Early Mexico by Susan Schroeder; Robert Haskett; Stephanie Wood
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
This volume counters the stereotype that Indian women are without history. Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active participants in society and critically influenced the direction history would take. This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by ...Show more
Kitchen Culture in America - Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race by Sherrie A. Inness (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Food | Reading Level: very good
How advertising and product packaging have kept women in the kitchen.
Reproducing Empire - Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico by Laura Briggs
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: American Crossroads Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, femini ...Show more
The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation by Lynne Cheney
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: near fine
Exotics at Home - Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity by Micaela Di Leonardo
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Women in Culture and Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this pathbreaking study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of cultural difference. From the 1893 World's Fair to Body Shop advertisements, di Leonardo focuses on the intimate and shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic Others and the practice of anthropolog ...Show more
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
$30.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war, she signed up, expecting to be gone for months. Instea ...Show more
American Scoundrel by Tom Keneally
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, aga ...Show more