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Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settlement in the New World.

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Cutting-edge in its scope and approach, this unique volume offers first-person accounts of modern genocides to enable readers to more fully examine genocidal experiences and better understand the horror of such events.

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Individual demands for equality and civil rights are central themes in U.S. history and American Indian people are no exception. This encyclopedia clarifies the complicated history of individual rights, water rights, land rights, and other issues in American Indian civil rights.

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The first comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to this dark, but critical, period in the history of Western civilization.

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This book provides a fascinating, encyclopedic antidote for the mysticism and pseudoscience surrounding well-known or highly publicized archaeological and anthropological "discoveries."

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Ellis Island, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was the major portal for European immigrants to the United States and looms large in 19th century and early 20th century history.

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Traces the development of athletics in the United States by examining the sporting experience of Native Americans, African Americans and the immigrant groups of the United States from Colonial times to the present.

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Examines the ways in which hair has served as a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, conformity/non-comfority, authority, and power throughout history. An introductory essay explores the universal human interest in hair and hair-styling throughout history and around the world.

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This book addresses the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II-a topic significant to all Americans, regardless of race or color.

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The number of extremists and extremist groups in the United States has increased dramatically in the last 20 years.

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The Encyclopedia of Surnames is not just another dictionary! With entertaining coverage of more than 7,000 surnames, it provides a complete and accessible companion to tracing the history of names. Written by John Ayto, a respected lexicographer, it is the ideal gift or research tool for anyone interested in tracing their family history.

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A vivid description of the people, events, and issues that forever changed the lives of Native Americans during the 1960s and 1970s-such as the occupation of Alcatraz, fishing-rights conflicts, and individuals such as Clyde Warrior.

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An encyclopedia of the history, people, events, places, movements, and issues of the Antebellum South.

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This encyclopedia provides 300 interdisciplinary, cross-referenced entries that document the effect of the plague on Western society across the four centuries of the second plague pandemic, balancing medical history and technical matters with historical, cultural, social, and political factors.

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This volume covers all aspects of the Boer War including its origins, military strategy and tactics, the main battles and sieges, the principal political and military figures, weaponry, and subjects such as the role of the railways, the treatment of the wounded, and the use of concentration camps.

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A comprehensive reference work on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), containing over 200 entries covering Haudenosaunee history, present-day issues, and contributions to general North American culture.

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The Hundred Years War is the name historians have given to a series of bloody but intermittent conflicts between France and England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This encyclopedia provides descriptions and definitions of people, events, and terms relating in some significant way to these conflicts.

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An encyclopaedia of the economic, political and social developments of the Industrial Revolution in the USA from 1750 to 1920. More than 200 entries cover individuals, significant technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, political institutions, economic events, and legislation.

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Provides a record of the history of the Mexican American civil rights movement.

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For the first time, the Middle Passagethe experience of slaves on the trans-Atlantic shipsreceives a full reference treatment in an encyclopedia.

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An A-to-Z encyclopedia covering the principal battles and campaigns, key military and political figures, and the political maneuvering during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.

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This authoritative A-Z encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses provides accurate and concise descriptions of the major battles and events and the principal historical figures and issues involved.

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Encyclopedia of Women and Sports is a clearly written, comprehensive, illustrated volume including nearly 600 entries on all aspects of women and sports in the United States, from the different sports to people and events;