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  • Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850

    Edited by Sandra Slater, Fay A. Yarbrough ...
    Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliographyPrior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires and Indigenous Peoples

    Comparing Ancient Roman and North American Experiences

    Edited by Michael Maas, Fay A. Yarbrough ...
    The Romans who established their rule on three continents and the Europeans who first established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, Empires and Indigenous Peoples expands our understanding of their historical parallels and raises general questions about the ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Race and Gender at War

    Writing American Military History

    by Lesley J. Gordon, Andrew Huebner, Kevin Adams, Amanda Bellows, Kari L. Boyd-Weisenberger, Michele Curran Cornell, Gregory Mixon, Caroline Wood Newhall, Heather Marie Stur0, Patrick T. Troester1, Chad L. Williams2, Fay A Yarbrough3 ...
    Beyond the battlefield: How race and gender redefined war, identity, and memory in Civil War America.Race and Gender at War is a collection of essays that illuminates ways that race and gender have persistently shaped the military history of the United States. Editors Lesley J. Gordon and Andrew J. Huebner showcase historians with varied research agendas in the field of “war and society,” a ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

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  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

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    A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent ... Read more

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  • What This Cruel War Was Over

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    The Laws of War in American History

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  • American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World

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  • The Enlightenment

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