Fritz Mueller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenthcentury naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Mueller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual kinship between Mueller and Darwin, detailing a lively correspondence spanning seventeen years, in ......
Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists
Spotlighting the rebellious performances and artistic works of Afro-queer women in Puerto Rico In Disobedient Women, Anastasia Valecce centers the voices and aesthetics of four contemporary Afro-queer Puerto Rican artists-Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colon), Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Helen Ceballos, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Valecce shows how ......
Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists
Spotlighting the rebellious performances and artistic works of Afro-queer women in Puerto Rico In Disobedient Women, Anastasia Valecce centers the voices and aesthetics of four contemporary Afro-queer Puerto Rican artists-Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colon), Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Helen Ceballos, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Valecce shows how ......
The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
Exploring twentieth-century urban America through trash and artifacts from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring ......
While previous studies of dogs in human history have focused on how people have changed the species through domestication, this volume offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine connection. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages. Case studies ......
Exploring the bond between dogs and humans in case studies from across thousands of yearsThis volume offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine connection. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages. Case studies from North and South America, the ......
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America
Comparing the lives and goals of two icons of Black resistance One man dreamed of a country united in true racial equality. Another saw this as a nightmare that served only the interest of wealthy white people. Both were sons of Baptist ministers. Both grew up to be icons of the civil rights movement. Integration versus separatism. Martin ......
A leading authority on the archaeology of Florida tells the story of the state's past as a Spanish colony Florida is the state with the oldest recorded history of European contact, beginning with the arrival of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon more than five centuries ago-but many people don't know the full story of Florida during this ......
Arguing against the prevailing view of Edith Wharton as a realist writer, Hildegard Hoeller finds the real Wharton in the writer's sentimental voice and in her critique of realism. She demonstrates that the American writer created a dialogue between the two literary traditions.
