Search Results - "The Dispossessed"

Dispossessing the wilderness Indian removal and the making of the national parks / by Spence, Mark David

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Shifting terrain essays on politics, history and society / by Perusek, Glenn W. (Glenn Wesley), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Hubris of empire -- "A horizon lit with blood" : the U.S. occupation and resistance in Iraq -- Strategy and changing moods in Thucydides -- The dispossessed -- Child labor in the world economy -- The most dispossessed : hunger and poverty on a world scale -- Barren ground : American political culture -- Shifting terrain : styles of liberalism, periodization, and levels of analysis -- The politics of organized labor in the United States, 1945-1998 -- Two methodological traditions in the social sciences.…”
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In the shadow of slavery Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world / by Carney, Judith Ann

Table of Contents: “…Food and the African past -- African plants on the move -- African food crops and the Guinea trade -- African food and the Atlantic crossing -- Maroon subsistence strategies -- The Africanization of plantation food systems -- Botanical gardens of the dispossessed -- Guinea's plants and European empire -- African animals and grasses in the New World tropics -- Memory dishes of Africa's botanical legacy.…”
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The testing grounds of modern empire the making of colonial racial order in the American Ohio country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s / by Strobel, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans : a comparative overview of the pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Ohio country and the Eastern Cape -- Conquest, civilization, and dispossession : the transformation of the Ohio country -- Humantiarians, settlers, and the state : the transformation of the Eastern Cape -- The Ohio Indians revolution : a struggle for sovereignty and independence -- This land is our land : Africans in the Eastern Cape and their struggle for independence and sovereignty.…”
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Family life in Native America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands -- The structure of Woodland society -- Native American kinship systems -- Child rearing from birth to marriage -- A world wrought from nature -- The bountiful earth mother -- Native American ceremonies and rituals -- The tomahawk and the cross -- Wilderness warfare -- The fur trade -- Intertribal trade and conflict -- Dispossessing the First Nations -- The Indian alliances -- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.…”
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