Mark P. Leone
"The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital is the work of a mature scholar reporting on one of the most important, large-scale, and long-range projects in contemporary American archaeology."--Randall McGuire, author of The Archaeology of Inequality
"Many would argue the Mark Leone is the most distinguished practitioner of historical archaeology in the United States, and one of the most prominent in the world."--Thomas C. Patterson, coeditor of Making Alternative Histories
DESCRIPTION
What do archaeological excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, reveal about daily life in the city's history? Considering artifacts such as ceramics, spirit bundles, printer's type, and landscapes, this engaging, generously illustrated, and original study illuminates the lives of the city's residents--walking, seeing, reading, talking, eating, and living together in freedom and in oppression for more than three hundred years. Interpreting the results of one of the most innovative projects in American archaeology, The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital speaks powerfully to the struggle for liberty among African Americans and the poor.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Tables1. The Importance of Knowing Annapolis
2. The Research Design
3. Landscapes of Power
4. The Rise of Popular Opinion
5. Time and Work Discipline
6. From Althusser and Lukács to Habermas: Archaeology in Public in Annapolis
7. African America
8. What Do We Know?
Appendix
Works Cited
Index
DESCRIPTION
This collection of essays shows how letters nimbly traverse the boundaries between the public and the private and examines the many roles of correspondence, from the domestic to the global. Contributors discuss a variety of engrossing subjects: documents of early exploration and diplomacy, including Columbus's texts and Amerigo Vespucci's reports of his experiences in America; the surprisingly large role that letters played in the success of the Jesuit order in the seventeenth century; English letter-writing manuals that provide model letters to be imitated while offering a vivid view into a cross section of lived experience; epistolary travel writings; and letter-writing instruction in nineteenth-century America, among other topics.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Linda C. Mitchell teaches English at San Jose State University and is the author of Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England . Susan Green is the editor of the Huntington Library Quarterly.
Categories: History ; Women's Studies; Letters
256 pages, 7 x 10 inches, 18 b/w illustrations
Due June 2005
Ruth H. Bloch
"A wonderfully
original and courageous collection of essays, at once an incisive critique of
feminist theoretical preoccupation with wealth and power and a compelling case
for grounding domesticity more firmly in the eighteenth century. Arguing for
a 'culturalist' approach, its attention to Anglo-American courtship, love, motherhood,
virtue, and morality speaks as vividly to recent debates about the 'crisis of
the family' as it does to historical intersections of gender, religion, and
political and economic thought."--Carol Karlsen, author of The Devil in
the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
"Ruth H. Bloch
has long been known as one of our most acute historians of cultural life during
the period of the American Revolution and Early Republic; moreover, she has
a particularly strong reputation as an essayist. The gathering of the pieces
included in this volume is, therefore, an occasion of special interest and appreciation.
Gender, mentality, moral life in its various aspects: on these important subjects
Professor Bloch has repeatedly thrown a fresh and altogether invaluable light."--John
Demos, author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony
DESCRIPTION
Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of
gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects
six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes
two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by
addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender
and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they
did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question,
highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law,
and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation
for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions
of female moral authority.
She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding
courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology
of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays
bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as
they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that
has dominated American culture for two hundred years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ruth H. Bloch is Professor in the Department of History and former Chair of
Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and prize-winning
author of Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756-1800
(1985).
February 2003
235 pages, 6 x 9 inches,
Clothbound: $55.00 0-520-23405-7 £37.95
Paperback: $21.95 0-520-23406-5 £15.95
DESCRIPTION
It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings
were extending their reach--and their numbers--as never before. In the process,
they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented
and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, The Unending Frontier
offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the
natural world in the early modern period.
John F. Richards identifies
four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from
roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers;
biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy
scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of
case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early
modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur
trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling
in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans--whether clearing forests
or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting
species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes--altered the material well-being
of the natural world along with their own.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Global Context
1. The Early Modern World
2. Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History
Part II. Eurasia and Africa
3. Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan
4. Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China
5. Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan
6. Landscape Change and Energy Transformation in the British Isles
7. Frontier Settlement in Russia
8. Wildlife and Livestock in South Africa
Part III. The Americas
9. The Columbian Exchange: The West Indies
10. Ranching, Mining, and Settlement Frontiers in Colonial Mexico
11. Sugar and Cattle in Portuguese Brazil
12. Landscapes of Sugar in the Antilles
Part IV. The World Hunt
13. Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America
14. The Hunt for Furs in Siberia
15. Cod and the New World Fisheries
16. Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Kris Fresonke
DESCRIPTION
Where
did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has
them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of
American writing. West of Emerson overhauls this story of origins as it shifts
the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open
spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. Kris Fresonke tracks down the texts by explorers
of the far West that informed Nature, Emerson's most famous essay, and proceeds
to uncover the parodic Western politics at play in classic New England works
of Romanticism. Westerns, this book shows, helped create "Easterns."
West of Emerson roughs up genteel literary history: Fresonke argues for a fresh
mix of American literature, one based on the far reaches of American territory
and American literary endeavor. Reading into the record the unexplored writings
of Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Stephen Long, and William Emory, Fresonke
forges surprising connections between the American West and the American visions
emanating from the neighborhood of Walden Pond. These connections open a new
view of the politics--and, by way of the notion of "design," the theological
lineage--of manifest destiny. Finally, Fresonke's book shows how the cast of
the American canon, no less than the direction of American politics, came to
depend on what design one placed on the continent.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Natural Causes: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
2. Zebulon Pike, Federalist Gloom, and Western Lands
3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory
4. Emerson's 1830s
5. Emerson's Nature: West of Ecstasy
6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent
Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Kris Fresonke is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University.
Publication
Date: December 2002
241 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 12 line illustrations; 1 b/w photograph
Clothbound: $49.95 0-520-22509-0 £35.00
Paperback: $19.95 0-520-23185-6 £13.95
Edited by William Frawley, Kenneth Hill, and Pamela Munro
DESCRIPTION
Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages, stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. The contributors discuss the technical, social, and personal challenges involved with the complex task of creating a dictionary of a Native American language. The book is also the first of its kind to address both standard and new issues surrounding the challenging task of transforming oral languages in general into written dictionaries. Making Dictionaries will be an invaluable source for those involved with all aspects of documenting and understanding endangered languages and for the increasing number of native communities engaged in language reclamation and preservation efforts.
CONTENTS
I.
FORM AND MEANING IN THE DICTIONARY
1. Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in Dictionaries
of
the Misumalpa Languages
Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca
2. Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography: The Cherokee-English Dictionary
William Pulte and Durbin Feeling
3. Lexical Fuctions as a Heuristic for Huichol
Joseph E. Grimes
4. Entries for Verbs in American Indian Language Lexicography
Pamela Munro
5. Multiple Assertions, Grammatical Constructions, Lexical Pragmatics, and the
Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottowa Dictionary
Richard A. Rhodes
II. ROLE OF THE DICTIONARY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
6. Issues of Standardization and Community in Aboriginal Language Lexicography
Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon
7. A Dictionary for Whom? Tensions between Academic and Nonacademic Functions
of Bilingual Dictionaries
Leanne Hinton and William F. Weigel
8. Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy: Reflections
from Western Mono
Paul V. Kroskrity
III. TECHNOLOGY AND DICTIONARY DESIGN
9. An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
Nahuatl
Una Canger
10. What's in a Word? The Whys and What Fors of a Nahuatl Dictionary
Jonathan D. Amith
11. The Comparative Siouan Dictionary
David S. Rood and John E. Koontz
IV. SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
12. Writing a Nez Perce Dictionary
Haruo Aoki
13. On Publishing the Hopi Dictionary
Kenneth C. Hill
14. Writing a User-Friendly Dictionary
Catherine A. Callaghan
15. The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States) Project: Principles
and Problems
William Bright
16. Alonso de Molina as Lexicographer
Mary L. Clayton and R. Joe Campbell
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
ABOUT
THE EDITORS
William Frawley is Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Science at George
Washington University, where he is also Professor of Anthropology and Psychology.
Prior to that he was Professor and Chair in the Department of Linguistics and
Director of Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, where he was also
Faculty Director for Academic Programs and Planning and Director of the University's
Office of Undergraduate Studies. His previous books include Vygotsky and Cognitive
Science: Language and the Unification of the Social and Computational Mind (1997).
Kenneth Hill is Research Associate in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His previous
publications include Hopi Dictionary/Hoìikwa Lavytutuveni: A Hopi-English
Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect (1998), for which he was editor-in-chief.
Pamela Munro is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los
Angeles. She is coauthor of Chickasaw: An Analytic Dictionary (1994), among
other publications.
Publication
Date: October 2002
455 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 28 line illustrations, 20 tables
Clothbound: $65.00 0-520-22995-9 £45.00
Paperback: $34.95 0-520-22996-7 £24.95
Virginia
Scharff
"Virginia Scharff claims for women what has long been central to the masculine mythology of the West--free movement and its many gifts, real and imagined. Her book is as exhilarating and as intellectually and emotionally expansive as our enduring dream of flight across the American land."--Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
DESCRIPTION
From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's
California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences
for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand
theme of United States history--our restless, relentless westward movement--but
sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth
to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a
lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and
ultimately shattered the West.
Twenty Thousand Roads introduces a cast of women mapping the world on their
own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated
institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea
and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail.
We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension
agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and
visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender,
race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire,
and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family
life.
This book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American
West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American
expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have
shaped our past, present, and future.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Before the West
1. Seeking Sacagawea
2. The Hearth of Darkness: Susan Magoffin on Suspect Terrain
Part Two: In the West
3. Empire, Liberty, and Legend: The Ironies of Woman Suffrage in Wyoming
4. Marking Wyoming: Grace Raymond Hebard and the West as Woman's Place
5. "So Many Miles to a Person": Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Makes New Mexico
Part Three: Beyond the West
6. Resisting Arrest: Jo Ann Robinson and the Power to Move
7. The Long Strange Trip of Pamela Des Barres
8. They Paved Paradise
Notes
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Virginia Scharff is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. She
is author of Bad Company (2002), Brown-Eyed Girl (2000), Coming of Age: America
in the Twentieth Century (1998, with Michael Schaller and Robert Schulzinger),
Present Tense: The United States since 1945 (1996, with Michael Schaller and
Robert Schulzinger), and Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor
Age (1991).