Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed ......
A compelling new analysis of the insights and the illusions embedded in writings from the New World Perceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French expressed about each other-what people from a diverse range of Indigenous ......
A compelling new analysis of the insights and the illusions embedded in writings from the New World Perceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French expressed about each other-what people from a diverse range of Indigenous ......
A panoramic view of research on the first peoples of the Southwest The North American Southwest looms large in American archaeology, well known for the agricultural societies that dominated its austere landscape in later times. However, the traces of its earliest occupants, Native American ancestors who shared the ancient landscape with mammoth ......
The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this day. In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ......
A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the Americas In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads. Thousands of demobilized Irish soldiers held the power to reshape history. Inspired by a popular desire to expel monarchical and aristocratic influence from the New World, many American ......
Reframing the study of Indigenous visual culture, this volume explores how images and objects generate affect and relation in non-Western contexts, foregrounding alternative modes of material engagement and meaning-making
Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone
Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil War In December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the ......
Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone
Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil War In December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the ......