Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daniel h usner jr”
Skip side bar filters

  • From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue

    How Basket Diplomacy Saved the Chitimacha Indian Nation

    by Daniel H. Usner Jr. ...
    Series series New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
    Daniel H. Usner offers a cultural, political, and social history of the Chitimacha Tribe in South Louisiana and its struggle for political sovereignty. Between the 1890s and 1940s, Chitimacha Indian women in South Louisiana—with extraordinary baskets they created from rivercane—strategically built a network of allies that originated in a relationship with neighboring white women and that would ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History

    by Daniel H. Usner Jr. ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    Though long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. In Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History, Daniel H. Usner explores the dynamic role of Native American women in the South as they confronted waves of colonization, European imperial invasion, plantation encroachment, and post–Civil ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy

    The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783

    by Daniel H. Usner Jr. ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Attention of a Traveller

    Essays on William Bartram's "Travels" and Legacy

    by Kathryn H. Braund, Elizabeth Athens, William Cahill, Dorinda G Dallmeyer, Joel T. Fry, Thomas Hallock, Nancy E. Hoffman, Katie Lamar Jackson, Alina Josan, Taylor McGaughy0, Bob Peck1, Andrew B. Ross2, Brad Sanders Jr.3, Daniel H. Usner Jr.4 ...
    An interdisciplinary reevaluation of William Bartram’s Travels, illuminating the natural, cultural, and intellectual landscapes of the eighteenth‑century Southeast through diverse scholarly lenses.William Bartram, author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Trace

    Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    by Lauret Savoy ...
    **Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    by Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    In this sweeping, foundational work of American history, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • It Was Dark There All the Time

    Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada

    by Andrew Hunter ...
    “My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long — it was dark there all the time.”Sophia Burthen’s account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

    Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

    by Dorceta E. Taylor ...
    In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The State of North Carolina with Native American Ancestry

    The Formation of the Eastern and Coastal Counties in North Carolina

    by Milton E. Campbell ...
    More than 50,000 Indians lived in the area now known as North Carolina at the time of Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The Formation North Carolina Coastal and Eastern Counties examines the history of this Native American Indian population. It also focuses upon the formation of North Carolina from colonial times; tracing the origins of its earliest settlers, including Native ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Making of America's Culture Regions

    by Richard L. Nostrand ...
    This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion ... Read more

    $105.49 CAD