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  • - An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado
    af Bonnie J. Clark
    477,95 kr.

    Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800s, the region was US territory, but the majority of settlers remained Hispanic families. Bonnie J. Clark investigates the unwritten history of this unique Hispanic population.

  • af Carrie Smith, Kelli Casias & Kalie Crews
    718,95 kr.

    The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. This volume reveals an archaeological past that is distinct to the region, highlighting a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range of environmental and economic situations.

  • - Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California
    af Charlotte K. Sunseri
    686,95 kr.

    This volume explores how pluralistic communities thrived in California's mining hinterland as well as how immigrants and California Natives mobilized and mitigated power inequalities through their daily experiences of identity expression, community cohesion, and labor relations.

  • - A View from the Silver State
    af Donald L. Hardesty
    618,95 kr.

    Explores mining culture and practices through the microcosm of Nevada's mining frontier. The history of mining technology, the social and cultural history of miners and mining societies, and the landscapes and environments of mining are topics examined in this multifocus research.

  • - The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North
     
    575,95 kr.

    Archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon.

  • - Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862-1943
    af Christopher W. Merritt
    676,95 kr.

    Examines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. Christopher W. Merritt uses the statewide Montana context to show the diversity of Chinese settlements that has often been neglected by archival studies.

  • - Secrets of a Western Past
    af Ronald M. James
    313,95 kr.

    For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West.