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  • Sod Busting

    How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains

    de David B. Danbom ...
    Series series How Things Worked
    "An excellent introduction to the challenges and opportunities of agricultural life in a difficult region for farming . . . elegantly written." —Jeff Bremer, The Annals of IowaPrairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom challenges students to think about the many ... Leer más

    $10,583 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    de Thomas King ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the RBC Taylor PrizeFinalist for Canada ReadsFinalist for Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction**Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King’s critical examination of the history and experience of Native peoples in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship ... Leer más

    $12,708 CLP

  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    de Jeffrey Ostler ...
    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Leer más

    $5,839 CLP

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

    de Anton Treuer ...
    "I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they supported but also challenged me with questions like, ... Leer más

    $12,188 CLP

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  • Rez Life

    An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

    de David Treuer ...
    A prize-winning writer offers "an affecting portrait of his childhood home, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and his people, the Ojibwe" ( The New York Times).A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America. Exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture, Rez ... Leer más

    $14,808 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Legacy of Conquest

    The Unbroken Past of the American West

    de Patricia Nelson Limerick, Ph.D. ...
    "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here ... Leer más

    $13,368 CLP

  • Cattle Kingdom

    The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

    de Christopher Knowlton ...
    **"The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" —Douglas Brinkley, The New York Times–bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for AmericaThe open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom ... Leer más

    $19,750 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Wisconsin

    de Erika Janik ...
    Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's remarkable past, showing how the state was shaped by the same world wars, waves of new ... Leer más

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  • James J. Hill

    Empire Builder of the Northwest

    de Michael P. Malone ...
    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest.Malone explores Hill’s complex life and personality, his activities and interests, and recreates both the story of the railroad race to the Pacific and the complex ... Leer más

    $16,435 CLP

  • Hidden History of Portland, Oregon

    de JD Chandler ...
    Series series Hidden History
    In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation: C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army; Beatrice Morrow Cannady, founding member of the Portland NAACP and first African American ... Leer más

    $12,744 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • This Indian Country

    American Indian Activists and the Place They Made

    de Frederick Hoxie ...
    Series series Penguin History American Life
    Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion is inescapable: Most Americans ... Leer más

    $5,839 CLP

  • The Destruction of the Bison

    An Environmental History, 1750–1920

    de Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    The Destruction of the Bison, first published in 2000, explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than a thousand a century later. In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains was the central cause of ... Leer más

    $21,138 CLP