Focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social changeThe last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000–1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which M...

Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native American villages in the North American Midcontinent. He shows that to affiliate archaeological remains with descendant communities fully we need to unaffiliate some of our well-established archae...

People view the Bible in different ways based on their education and their occupation. Every occupation has some training to it. Therefore, the thinking process is unique. When a scientist reads the Bible, that person will look for facts and figures. An economist might look for the money trail and money advantages. This book does not examine every view point. However, the authors hope that when you we read this book and you are a Bible study leader, you can adjust your teaching to the way ...

This book is the first to specifically trace the movement of Mississippian maize farmers throughout the US Midwest and Southeast. By providing a backdrop of shifting climatic conditions during the period, this volume also investigates the relationship between farmers and their environments. Detailed regional overviews of key locations in the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and the peripheries of the Mississippian culture area reveal patterns and variation in the expression of Mississi...

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A comparative archaeological synthesis examining the spatial, social, and ceremonial logics underpinning circular community formations across the Eastern Woodlands from 10,000 BC to the sixteenth century.The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities is an edited collection of ten essays that illuminate how Indigenous communities of the Eastern Woodlands, from 10,000 BC to the 1550s, are analyzed and interpreted by archaeologists today. Volume editors Mar...

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned accounts of defeat, loyalty, courage, and loss. Read critically, the volume also exposes the omissio...

The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary register...

Tales of Revolutionary War: 30 Historical Novels gathers a capacious body of Revolutionary-era fiction in which military conflict, political allegiance, domestic sacrifice, espionage, frontier encounter, and the afterlife of independence converge. Ranging from romance-inflected adventure and sea narrative to regional chronicle, juvenile historical tale, and psychologically alert historical romance, the volume demonstrates how the Revolution became a fertile imaginative archive. Dramatic ca...

The Independence Day Collection: 30 Best American Revolution Novels assembles a capacious imaginative archive of the struggle for independence and its afterlives. Adventure romance, sea narrative, frontier tale, historical melodrama, political fiction, and morally searching romance converge to portray revolution as both public upheaval and intimate trial. Episodes of espionage, military campaigning, divided loyalties, colonial society, and the contested promise of liberty reveal the genre'...

A Rebels' War assembles forty-seven personal accounts of the Confederacy, placing battlefield recollection beside diary, memoir, political testimony, naval narrative, and reflections on civilian life. Its varied prose ranges from formal military reportage to intimate domestic observation, revealing how war was experienced, remembered, and subsequently narrated by Confederate participants. Campaign accounts, prison and espionage episodes, and striking records of the home front together illu...