History
Never Had The Like Occurred'
This volume examines ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. As Egyptian culture constantly changed and evolved, this book follows a chronological arrangement, from early Egypt to the attitudes of the Coptic population in the Byzantine Period.
Ancient Perspectives On Egypt
The allure of Egypt is not exclusive to the modern world. Egypt also held an attraction for people of the past.
South Asia in the World
Presents issues of particular relevance to the region, and explores the potential for improvement both in domestic and international efforts at alleviating the problems of South Asia.
Mi Raza Primero!
!Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale--in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City.
The Age of Wild Ghosts
In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state.
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions
To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance is the subject of this book.
American Bison
American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F.
American Empire
An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography.
American Klezmer
Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species
Setting the saga of human relations with the environment in the broad context of scientific, social, and cultural history, this book demonstrates how profoundly notions of nationality and debates over race and immigration have shaped American understandings of the natural world.