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Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay are geographically linked societies in Latin America, and their female citizens have shared many similar social and legal problems. This book describes changes in gender relations and the role that feminism has played in the development and modernization of each of the three countries.

Presents the story of a Comanche woman who became one of the most influential and determined Native Americans in politics. From her earliest years, LaDonna Harris was immersed in a world of resistance, reform, and political action. As the wife of Senator Fred R Harris, she was actively involved in political advising, campaigning, and networking.

Presents the history of fur trade. This book relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for the fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country.

One of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation (1904-77), D'Arcy McNickle is best known today for the American Indian history centre that carries his name and for his novels. This first full-length biogrpahy traces the course of McNickle's life from the reservation of his childhood through a career of major import to American Indian political and cultural affairs.

Offers an alternative vision of the development of anthropology in North America, one that emphasizes continuity rather than discontinuity from legendary founder Franz Boas to the present. This title highlights the Americanist roots of postmodern anthropology and the work of seminal scholars like Claude Levi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz.

Examining the effects of her personal background and academic training on her actions and decisions, the author compares her experiences with other collaborative autobiographies and biographies, and the role of academia and publishers in shaping expectations about the content and format of Native American biographies and autobiographies.

Old Man Ennis, who ranched on the upper Madison in Montana, grudgingly admired the slate-colored Zebu cow, whose wild cunning was passed on to her calf. The calf grows into a monster bull, not personified but endowed with the suggestion of a definite point of view. A phantom glimpsed against the horizon - that is the image he leaves.

The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural history museum, when, for the first time in her life, she experiences all-consuming love and absolute happiness. Ultimately the affair founders because of her inability to believe that Franz will actually leave his wife.

Alessandro Manzoni was a giant of nineteenth-century European literature whose "I promessi sposi" ("The Betrothed", 1928) is ranked with "War and Peace" as marking the summit of the historical novel. This English translation of "On the Historical Novel" reflects the insights of a great craftsman and the misgivings of a profound thinker.

In Buenos Aires, 1776-1870, ideological influences of the revolutionary movement combined with the practical needs of nation building to create new freedoms and new identities for women and children over the course of the nineteenth century. This book talks about these family and national struggles.

Tells the stories of ordinary and extraordinary French men and women, arguing that the French reaction to the Holocaust was not as reprehensible as it has been portrayed. This book draws on memoirs, government documents, and personal interviews with survivors. The author is also the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 1987.

Surveys the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. This book is based on the author's visiting to various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales.

An account of the early years of the Jamestown colony.

Talking about nuclear warfare and other visions of the future, this novel is a prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of human-kind from the rubble. It is written by the author of "The Time Machine", "War of the Worlds", and other science fiction classics.

Features the key documents pertaining to one of our century's defining mass political movements. This work emphasises the development of Fascist ideology in the country of its birth. It situates the rise and fall of corporatist ideals within the framework of the actual history of Mussolini's movement and regime.

In North America, there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Oreamnos americanus is its scientific name. Its common name is mountain goat. This book on the mountain goat offers a portrait of its life, habits, and environment.

Examining the influence of French Canada and French culture on Willa Cather, this is a collection of essays.

The seven stories in this volume were written during the ascending and perhaps most triumphant years of Willa Cather's career, the period during which she published nine books, including My Antonia, A Lost Lady, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. For the most part ironic in tone, these stories are bound by the geometrics of urban life.

Tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there

This extraordinary document and memoir offers a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman - Celeste Mogador. It also presents an inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of 19th-century France.

The Yuchis are one of the least known yet most distinctive of the Native groups in the American southeast. The famous naturalist William Bartram visited a Yuchi town in 1775, at a time when the Yuchis had moved near and become allied with Creek communities in Georgia. This title examines the significance of community ceremonies for the Yuchis.

Offering an examination of images of the Native as depicted by the dominant culture, the author argues that representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native.

Placing White's life and work in historic context, this book documents the sociopolitical influences that affected his career, including many aspects of White's life that are largely unknown, such as the reasons he became antagonistic toward Boasian anthropology.

Drawing on his private papers and published works, this biography recognizes Herskovits' contributions and discusses the complex consequences of his conclusions, methodologies, and relations with African American scholars.

For twenty years the author lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to "throwing a searchlight on the underworld," including the "cribs" of Nebraska's largest city. Thia title tells her experience.

Examines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. This book focuses on the special power of the past for the Chilcotin people of the Nemiah Valley Indian Reserve.

A biography that reconsiders Landes' life, work, and career, and places her at the heart of anthropology. The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Landes studied under the renowned anthropologist Franz Boas and was mentored by Ruth Benedict.

Gritta, neglected by her father, is uprooted when her stepmother insists she enter a convent school. Strictly supervised by the nun Sequestra, Gritta slips into melancholy. A mishandled bird, however, awakens Gritta to the realization that she and her friends must flee their walled-in life.

'Mourning Dove' was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of "Cogewea, The Half-Blood" (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and "Coyote Stories", both reprinted as Bison Books.