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Intertwining these three stories, Where the Ashes Are shows us the Vietnam War through a child's eyes, privation after a Communist takeover, and the struggle of new immigrants. The author, who returned to Vietnam as an American reporter, also provides a detailed portrait of the nation as it opened to the West in the early 1990s.

Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. Clark, as the highest-ranking federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences. In a combination of storytelling and scholarship, Landon Y. Jones vividly depicts Clark's life and the dark and bloody ground of America's early West.

The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska. This book offers a description of the syntax of two Haida dialects.

Collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, this title maps a complex tradition of Jewish discourse marked by a profound awareness of the literary past, by the failure of a long-anticipated Austrian-Jewish symbiosis, and by the unparalleled tragedy of the Shoah.

The advent of poison gas in World War I shocked Britons at various levels of society, yet by the end of the conflict their nation was a leader in chemical warfare. This work uncovers the complicated history of this weapon of total war and illustrates the widening involvement of society in warfare.

Presents the story of the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph and the events leading up to his now-famous declaration: "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." Alan E. Grey weaves a historically accurate biography full of colourful stories gleaned from careful research, telling a fascinating tale and offering the reader a thorough history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce war.

Offering a performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, this book provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews.

Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authentic sounds and colours of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time - the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program's momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. This book tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942.

An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, this book depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century.

College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. This is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher education. It shows that there is no one Latina college experience.

Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, this book examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response.

Showcases the prose of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating female wanderers and includes previously unpublished stories and an unfinished novel. This volume exemplifies author's creation of identity in fiction as her writing explores the world of prostitutes, Bedouins, and French colonists in exotic tales of love and conquest.

Not just the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of a distinctly feminine view of nature

This in-depth introduction and analysis expands our understanding and deepens our enjoyment of a Native cinema landmark

In 1862 enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Told from the point of view of Judith Raveling, a young woman widowed by the uprising, Scarlet Plume draws on the brutal history of the conflict from beginning to end.

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction by David E. Wilkins; an essay by Gerald Vizenor; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler.

Offers a rare workaday look at the importance of food in Antarctic history and culture

Presents the most complete account to date of Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals dictated the treatment of Jews.

Reveals the rich possibilities for research along the nexus of narrative and mind

Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well."" And such is the twisted logic of good and bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most powerful voices to emerge from North Africa in our time.

Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native life. This is a rich account of Native American life in contemporary America, revealing not a monolithic ""Indian"" experience but a mosaic of diverse peoples.

With little to no recognition from the general public, navy enlisted aircrewmen performed heroically in the Korean War. Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Jack Sauter was one such aircrewman. From the excitement and thrill of being catapulted from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the tedium of service at sea, the author describes in detail his service in the Korean air war.

The 4th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment saw considerable action from late 1863 to mid-1865. Citing recently discovered and previously unpublished accounts, author Edward G. Longacre goes beyond the battlefield heroics of the 4th USCT, blending his unique insights into political and social history to analyse the motives, goals, and aspirations of the African American enlisted men.

John Schulian, a much-honored sportswriter for nearly forty years, takes us back to a time when the greatest athletes stood before us as human beings, not remote gods. In this compelling collection, Schulian paints prose portraits to remind fans of what today's cloistered stars won't share with them.

Tells the dramatic story of America's first space station from beginning to fiery end

The Plains Indian Wars were always front-page news in frontier newspapers, and it was to such local newspapers that the public invariably turned for information about the fighting. Bound to Have Blood takes readers back to the late nineteenth century to show how newspaper reporting influenced attitudes about the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.

A collection of new essays that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. It spans such diverse topics as teaching wine tasting, food in Don Quixote, Soviet cookbooks, cruel foods, and the lambic beers of the Belgian Payottenland. Educated Tastes offers a fresh look at food in history, society, and culture.

Despite the tentative peace established in the 1100 years since the destruction of the United States, the Tantal tribe remains ready for battle. After their disastrous defeat by the Pelbar tribes at Northwall, the slave-holding Tantal have kept their distance. Part of a series of post-apocalyptic novels, this work talks about the people of Pelbar.