Women and the colonial state

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Theda Perdue

Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender roles actually allowed Cherokee women and men to adapt to new circumstances and adopt new industries and practices. - Publisher.

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Antonio-Miguel Bernal

Las naciones, como los imperios, son creaciones históricas, artificiales y, como tales, tienen fechas de origen y caducidad, pues con el tiempo todos terminan por desaparecer. El arranque de la construcción nacional del Estado moderno en España se hizo al unísono que la forja del Imperio. Una dimensión apenas explorada y que se aborda en este libro en términos de costes/beneficios bajo perspectivas económicas, políticas y sociales.

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With a pref. by Warren Susman

Published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik. (Goodreads.com)

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author, Philip Steele

Written in newspaper form, this book on the Aztec civilization combines news stories from home and abroad with fascinating features on all aspects of daily life - from food to philosophy, farming to fashion - illustrated with dramatic pictures, maps and cartoons.