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';Maher explores the development of the Frontier Complex as he deconstructs the frontier myth in the context of manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and white male privilege. A very significant contribution to our understanding of how and why heritage sites reinforce privilege.' Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking ';Peels back the layer of dime westerns and True Grit films to show how their mythologies are made material. You'll never experience a ';heritage site' the same way again.'Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 18801924 The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see and serve to craft a cultural memory that reinforces contemporary ideologies. In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the ';American frontier,' have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights. Examining the frontier complex in Fort Smith, Arkansaswhere visitors are greeted at a restored brothel and the reconstructed courtroom and gallows of ';Hanging Judge' Isaac Parker feature prominentlyMaher warns that creating a popular tourist narrative and disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.

There is a great deal more to Cuba's place on the global stage than its contentious relationship with the United States. Taking a refreshing look at Cuban international relations, contributors to this volume from both inside and outside the island explore the myriad ways in which it has not only maintained but often increased its reach and influence.

Being Jewish in Brazil--the world's largest Catholic country--is fraught with paradoxes, and living in Sao Paulo only amplifies these vivid contradictions. The metropolis is home to Jews from over 60 countries of origin, and to the Hebraica, the world's largest Jewish athletic and social club. Jewish identity is rooted in layered experiences of historical and contemporary dispersal and border crossings. Brazil is famously tolerant of difference but less understanding of longings for elsewhere. Celebrating both Carnival and the High Holidays is but one example of how Jews in Sao Paulo hold themselves together as a community in the face of the forces of assimilation.Misha Klein's fascinating ethnography reveals the complex intertwining of Jewish and Brazilian life and identity.

Examines setting as significant to George Bernard Shaw 's work as a whole. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a different play and a different usage of gardens and libraries, showing that these venues are not just background for action, they also serve as metaphors, foreshadowing, and insight into characters and conflicts.

Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solis de Meras. In 2012 David Arbesu discovered a manuscript including folios lost for centuries. In Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Conquest of Florida, Arbesu sheds light on principal events missing from the story of St. Augustine's founding.

In an effort to facilitate and generate renewed scholarly interest in the play, Fargnoli and Gillespie have compiled the first and only critical edition of "Exiles." They contend that when read on its own, the play stands very much on the cutting edge of modern drama.

North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Reference Works and Published Primary Sources - Honorable MentionIn this innovative study, Jun Kimura integrates historical data with archaeological findings to examine a wide array of eleventh- through nineteenth-century ships from China, Korea, and Japan. Chinese junks and Japanese sailing ships were known throughout the world, and this work illustrates why their innovative designs have survived the centuries.Kimura presents an extensive dataset of excavated coastal and oceangoing ships that traveled the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. Three detailed case studies include the Shinan and Quanzhou wrecks and the Takashima underwater site. Using travel documents, cargo manifests, iconographic paintings, and other descriptive resources, as well as the archaeological evidence of hull components, wooden timbers, and iron remains, Kimura sheds new light on East Asian shipbuilding traditions.

Provides a sweeping overview and assessment of the various brands of bigotry, prejudice, zealotry, dogmatism, and partisanship found in the United States, including the extreme right, the antiglobalization movement, Black Nationalism, Chicano separatism, militant Islam, Jewish extremism, eco-extremism, the radical antiabortion movement, and extremist terrorism.

One of the most prevalent misconceptions about the architecture of Native Americans is that they all lived in teepees or wigwams. In Thatched Roofs and Open Sides, Carrie Dilley reveals the design, construction, history, and cultural significance of the chickee, the unique Seminole structure made of palmetto and cypress.

Melissa Vogels Frontier Life in Ancient Peru offers a new perspective on ancient Peruvian life and geopolitics during a pivotal period of Andean cultural transformation between AD 900 and AD 1300.

An archaeological study of African American foodways innineteenth-century AnnapolisInEating in the Side Room,Mark Warner uses the archaeological data of food remains recovered fromexcavations in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Chesapeake to show how AfricanAmericans established identity in the face of pervasive racism andmarginalization.Bystudying the meat purchasing habits of two African American familiestheMaynards and the BurgessesWarner skillfully demonstrates that whileAfrican Americans were actively participating in a growing mass consumersociety, their food choices subtly yet unequivocally separated them from whitesociety. The side rooms where the two families ate their meals notonly satisfied their hunger but also their need to maintain autonomy from anoppressive culture. As a result, Warner claims, the independence that AfricanAmericans practiced during this time helped prepare their children andgrandchildren to overcome persistent challenges of white oppression.Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustainingthe Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.

This book examines the growing body of cultural works from Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans addressing the topic of return migration.

In this book, Leon Pamphile presents the story of the 100-year relationship between the United States and Haiti and chronicles the internal, external, and natural forces that have shaped the nation as it is today, keeping a balance between the realities faced by the people on the island and the global and transnational contexts that affect their lives.

A collection of essays by scholars, summarizing what we know of the development of native American cultures in the southeastern USA after 1500. The authors integrate archaeological, documentary and ethno-historical evidence.

The Cold War remains one of the twentieth century's defining events, possessing broad political, social, and material implications that continue to have impact. In this book, Todd Hanson presents nine case studies of archaeological investigations conducted at historic American Cold War sites, including Bikini Atoll, the Nevada Test Site, and the Cuban sites of the Soviet Missile Crisis.

For more than 130 years, research aimed at understanding Paleoindian occupation of the coastal Southeast has progressed at a glacial pace. In this volume, James Dunbar suggests that the most important archaeological and paleontological resources in the Americas still remain undiscovered in Florida's karst river basins.

Fritz Muller, though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenthcentury naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Muller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual kinship between Muller and Darwin, detailing a lively correspondence spanning seventeen years, in which the two men often exchanged ideas.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSicily was among one of the first areas settled during the Greek colonization movement, making its cemeteries a popular area of study for scholars of the classical world. Yet these studies have often considered human remains and burial customs separately. In this seminal work, Carrie Sulosky Weaver synthesizes skeletal, material, and ritual data to reconstruct the burial customs, demographic trends, state of health, and ancestry of Kamarina, a city-state in Sicily.Using evidence from 258 recovered graves from the Passo Marinaro necropolis, Sulosky Weaver suggests that Kamarineans--whose cultural practices were an amalgamation of both Greek and indigenous customs--were closely linked to their counterparts in neighboring Greek cities The orientations of the graves, positions of the bodies, and the types of items buried with the dead--including Greek pottery--demonstrate that Kamarineans were full participants in the mortuary traditions of Sicilian Greeks. Likewise, cranial traits resemble those found among other Sicilian Greeks. Interestingly, evidence of cranial surgery, magic, and necrophobic activities also appeared in Passo Marinaro graves--another example of how Greek culture influenced the city.An overabundance of young adult skeletal remains, combined with the presence of cranial trauma and a variety of pathological conditions, indicates the Kamarineans may have been exposed to one or more disruptive events, such as prolonged wars and epidemic outbreaks. Despite the tumultuous nature of the times, the resulting portrait reveals that Kamarina was a place where individuals of diverse ethnicities and ancestries were united in life and death by shared culture and funerary practices.

Over the half millennium after Spanish contact, Cuba served as the principal destination and residence of peoples as diverse as the Yucatec Mayas of Mexico, and the Calusa, Timucua, Creek, and Seminole peoples of Florida. In this history of the Amerindian presence in Cuba during the colonial period, Yaremko demonstrates the multifaceted, and dynamic nature of the indigenous diaspora.

Provides a look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's most respected ballet masters, principals, and artistic directors. This title features such artists as Peter Boal (artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet) and Bene Arnold (first ballet mistress of the San Francisco Ballet).

Argues that middle-class black men in North Carolina actively responded to new manifestations of racism. Focusing on the localized, grassroots work of black men, this book offers insights about rarely scrutinized interracial dynamics as well as the interactions between men and women in the black community.

Modernism's most contentious rivals, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, are traditionally seen as opposites. This is the first book to explore the resonances between the two writers, revealing that their lives, works, and careers have striking similarities. Modernists at Odds is a long overdue extended comparison of two of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.

One of the more frustrating aspects of gardening is trying to find the proper plants for shady areas. even more difficult is creating these areas where they don't already exist. Craig Huegel carefully outlines the necessary but easy-to-follow steps of either adding plants to an existing yard or designing cool spaces from scratch.

This book approaches Caribbean slavery by emphasizing the importance of the hato (herding) economy on Puerto Rico rather than sugar and tobacco production. The author makes use of extensive Catholic parish records.