Black kettle and full moon

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Atholl Anderson

"Two hundred years ago, Maori in the south of New Zealand had a lifestyle quite distinct from their northern cousins, and different experiences of contact with Europeans. This book provides an insight into those times, covering the period 1650-1850, and focusing on Maori history from Marlborough to Stewart Island." "Atholl Anderson surveys the origins and migrations of Waitaha and Kati Mamoe, and the subsequent arrival of Ngai Tahu and the establishment of their tribal authority and lifeways in the South Island. Drawing on tribal knowledge as well as early written accounts, he creates the fullest description yet of Maori in this period."--Jacket.

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Allison Lassieur

"Describes the people and events involved during the colonial years before the Revolutionary War. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of an indentured Virginia servant, a Massachusetts colonist, and a resident of Philadelphia just before the revolution"--Provided by publisher.

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Ruby Lal

"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"--

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James J. Klekowski

South Chicago U. S. A. is the area my grandparents chose to settle in, nearly one hundred years ago, when they emigrated from Poland. It is the neighborhood where my parents were born, grew to young adulthood, met each other and married, and the place I returned to, many years after the first generation had died. Like them, I too, came here for work; my grandfathers in the giant steel mills along the banks of Lake Michigan and I to record the demise of those mills as part of a film crew. This book is a personal thanks to the place of my own birth and childhood memories, thanks to a neighborhood where much has been taken by outsiders and little returned for those who have remained. Occasionally there are problems in taking photographs of strangers. That is an understatement. At first, people become more self-conscious with a camera around, except, of course for children. Shouts of ‘Take my picture!’ and ‘Don’t take my picture!’ fill the air, whether at a senior citizens banquet, a park baseball game or a street gang meeting. As with the medium, the feelings on this subject are in black and white. People either like or don’t like having their picture taken, and those I have taken have let me know which side they are on. Unless the photograph is of a nature that can’t be captured again, I often comply with the wishes of the subject. I don’t like having my picture taken, either. Time often helps out in situations where people are uncomfortable with a camera around. Once a man wielding a camera becomes somewhat commonplace, people and habits return to normal. The novelty wears off and the shouts turn to ‘When can I see the pictures?’