【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞When Roger Smith returns home for a short break from his military duties, he has every intention of seeing his high school sweetheart, Caroline. Roger's intentions had been clear to Caroline- when it was time to return to South Carolina, she would leave with him and they were going to marry. Roger's parents had given him their blessings even though they didn't agree with his decision. Roger's trusting nature and his love for Caroline is about to be put to the test and may even cost him his life in the process.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞As a 20 yr old Marine in Vietnam in 1967 /68 I will describe what it was like flying on missions as a Helicopter Gunner and Crew Chief with HMM-361, having accumulated 314 combat missions in my 13-month tour. Perhaps this would have been an average tour had it not been for the events of 28 August thru 3 September 1967 at Dong Ha, Vietnam involving NVA artillery attacks.＜/p＞ ＜p＞" After the third direct hit on our bunker small beams of light appeared in the upper corner, that was good news and bad news. Bad news was all the sandbags were blown away, one more direct hit and I wouldnot be writing this. Goods news was we could put our months up to the cracks to get some air, like guppies in a fishbowl, not that the air outside was much better"＜/p＞ ＜p＞Missions remembered .." Why Is He Smiling " , "OK Pass Up The Dead Guy " , " Surely We're not Going To Do This "＜br /＞"MAY DA...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Across the world 2,000 people die each day from armed violence. Crucial negotiations for an arms trade treaty are taking place at the United Nations throughout July 2012. Oxfam's eBook 'The Final Countdown' explores the devastating impact of the arms trade and explains what the new treaty must contain if it is to be effective. It calls for strong and legally binding wording and explains the importance of clauses on ammunition and parts and components used to make weapons. It makes the case for criteria on socio-economic development, because a poorly regulated arms trade weakens the ability and willingness of governments to sustain progress. The report argues that without all these elements the treaty will fail to deliver.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞In ＜em＞Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace,＜/em＞ Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in which these women functioned and the ways in which women saw communism as a very real danger to domestic security and American families. Millions of women, Brennan notes, expanded their notions of household responsibilities to include the crusade against communism. From writing letters and hosting teas to publishing books and running for political office, they campaigned against communism and, incidentally, discovered the power they had to effect change through activism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brennan reveals how the w...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Alb?n until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rather than between time periods, ＜em＞The Lords of Lambityeco＜/em＞ traces the changing political relationships between Lambityeco and Monte Alb?n that led to the fall of the Zapotec state. Using detailed analysis of elite and common houses, tombs, and associated artifacts, the authors demonstrate increased political control by Monte Alb?n over Lambityeco prior to the abandonment of both settlements. Lambityeco is the most thoroughly researched Classic period site in the valley after Monte Alb?n, but only a small number of summary arti...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞In ＜em＞Coal in Our Veins＜/em＞, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utahーwhere they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining disasters in American historyーand the history of coal development in Utah form the second part.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then Thomas investigates coal mining and communities in West Virginia, near her East Coast home, looking at the Sago Mine collapse and more widespread impacts of mining, including population displacement, mountain top removal, coal dust dispersal, and stream pollution, flooding, and deci...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, ＜em＞Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"＜/em＞ highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended acros...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the Westーin other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”ーhas been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding that range and significance, especially to the western part of the continent, means coming to terms with the complicated, nuanced ideas of the Orient and of the North American continent that European Americans brought to the West. Such complexity is what historical geographer Richard Francaviglia unravels in this book.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since the publication of Edward Said’s book, ＜em＞Orientalism,＜/em＞ the term has come to signify something one-dimensionally negative. In essence, the orientalist vision was an ethnocentric character...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In ＜em＞Making the White Man’s West＜/em＞, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irvingviewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse pop...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage＜/em＞ is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to affect the politics of heritage management.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Spaces of human habitation are both historical records of the past and key elements in reproducing the knowledge and values that define lives in the present. Practices, knowledge, and skills that communities recognize as part of their cultureーand that a range of legal statutes define as protected intangible heritagesーare threatened by increased migration, the displacement of indigenous peoples, and limits on access to culturally or historically significant sites. Thi...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞A companion volume to ＜em＞Environmental Conflict in Alaska＜/em＞, ＜em＞Pioneering Conservation in Alaska＜/em＞ chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could without regard for long-term consequences. Wildlife species, ecosystems, and Native cultures suffered, sometimes irreparably. Damage to wildlife and lands drew the attention of environmentalists, including John Muir, who applied their influence to enact wildlife protection laws and set aside lands for conservation. Alaska served as a testing ground for emergent national resource policy in the United States, as environmental values of species and ecosystem sustainability replaced the unrestrained exploitation of Alaska's early frontier ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. ＜em＞Maya Gods of War＜/em＞ investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from other types of stone, surveys various types of Chahk thunderbolt deities and their relationship to flint weapons, and explores the connection between lightning and the ruling elite. Additional chapters review these fire and solar deities and their roles in Maya warfare and examine the nature and manifestations of the Central Mexican thunderbolt god Tlaloc, his incorporation into the Maya pantheon, and his identification with meteors and obsidian weapons. Finally, Bassie-Sweet addresses the characteristics of t...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞Ancient Maya Commerce＜/em＞ presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexicoーa thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of growth. Trade was the raison d’?tre of the city itself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Using a variety of evidenceーarchaeological, botanical, geomorphological, and soil-basedーcontributors show how the city was a major center for both short- and long-distance trade, integrating the Guatemalan highlands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the interior of the northern Maya lowlands. By placing Chunchucmil into the broader context of emerging research at other Maya cities, the book reorients the understanding of ancient Maya economies. The book is acc...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement. However, social violence has deep roots on the Plains beyond this post-Contact perception, and these roots have not been systematically examined through archaeology before. War was part, and perhaps an important part, of the process of ethnogenesis that helped to define tribal societies in the region, and it affected many other aspects of human lives there. In ＜em＞Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains＜/em＞, anthropologists who study sites across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped human societies of the region.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contributors to this volume offera bird’s-eye view of warfare on the Great Plains, c...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica＜/em＞ explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchangeand borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of case studies drawn from multiple spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts within Mesoamerica.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Archaeologists have long recognized the crucial role of interregionalinteraction in the development and cultural dynamics of ancient societies, particularly in terms of the evolution of sociocultural complexity and economic systems. Recent research has further expanded the archaeological, art historical, ethnographic, and epigraphic records in Mesoamerica, permitting a critical reassessment of the complex relationship...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞"The Only True People"＜/em＞ is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identityーhow it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In thevolume, a multidisciplinary group of well-known scholars including archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers investigate ethnicity and other forms of group identity at a number of Maya sites and places, from the northern reaches of the Yucatan to the Southern Periphery, and across different time periods, from the Classic period to the modern day.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each contribution challenges the notion of ethnically homogenous "Maya peoples" for their region and chronology and explores how their work contributes to the definition of "ethnicity" for ancient Maya society. Contributors co...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞Mixtec Evangelicals＜/em＞ is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞O’Connor identifies globalization as the root cause of this process. She demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that areat the center of traditional village life. The home ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞＜em＞Historicizing Fear＜/em＞ is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression is used in the present day.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contributors ground their work in the theory of Otheringーthe reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate socialcategory defined as the Otherーin relation to historical events, demonstrating that fear of the Other is universal, timeless, and interconnected. Chapters address the music of neo-Nazi white power groups, fear perpetuated through the social construct of black masculinity in a racially hegemonic society, the terror and racial cleansing in early twentiet...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞In ＜em＞Identity Politics of Difference＜/em＞, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how this status affects their educational success and social interactions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Montgomery contextualizes students’ representations of their racial identity choices through the compounded race politics of blood quantum and stereotypes of physical features, showing how varying degrees of "Indianness" are determined by peer groups. Based on in-depth interviews with nine students who identify as mixed-race (Native American?White, Native American?Black, and Native American?Hispanic), Montgomery challenges us to scrutinize how ...