The ships carried cotton to Havana and manufactured goods to the Confederacy. The problem was the Union heavily blockaded the area, and even the fast steamship Denhigh, now part of an underwater arche
Written to be accessible to general readers and scholars, this biography chronicles the life of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, the woman with whom Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a long-term affair, in spit
An archaeologist/historian of technology, Schiffer ferrets out ambitious projects that turned into spectacular flops from the late eighteenth century. He presents case studies that he admits are b
The chapters appearing in this text were originally presented at a November 2001 conference at the U. of Notre Dame, which was held to celebrate Robert Dreeben's lifelong contributions to the sociolog
Originating in a symposium at the Society of American Archaeology in New Orleans, 1996, the eleven papers presented here explore the past, present and future of surveys and settlement pattern studi
Kelly (anthropology, U. of Wyoming) describes the remarkably complex structures and practices of foraging cultures, such as those in which members store up good will to tide them over the times they c
Scholars and students from China, the US, and Israel present maps and discussion of changing settlement patterns across 7,000 years in an intensively surveyed 765-square-kilometer area. The Chifeng re
Applied Zooarchaeology: Five Case Studies seeks to provide a clear understanding of applied zooarchaeology and explores the development of the field as a distinct discipline through a series of case s
A professional volume of papers in psychology, this book was based on presentations at the fourth Biennial Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology held in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, in 2012. The
"This insightful overview by a distinguished cultural anthropologist of how humans moved from animistic and supernatural views of the universe, spawned in the infancy of the species, to a naturalistic
Prepublication praise. "This insightful overview by a distinguished cultural anthropologist of how humans moved from animistic and supernatural views of the universe, spawned in the infancy of the spe
A pioneer of hunter-gatherer foraging theory, Bettinger (anthropology, U. of California-Davis) offers a primer on foraging models for students new to them, especially those with little mathematical tr
Tomasz Maruszewski, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, PolandMalgorzata Fajkowska, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Polish Acad
Anthropologists, historians, and other scholars from the US and Europe offer 12 essays discussing the characteristics, types, and evolution of chiefdoms. They explore the concept of the chiefdom an
