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  • Young People in Forensic Mental Health Settings

    Psychological Thinking and Practice

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological thinking and practice when working with young people who display high risk behaviours across a broad range of forensic mental health settings in the UK. It provides an up-to-date account of current ... Read more

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  • Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration

    Discovering Histories That Have Futures

    Society for American Archaeology Scholarly Book AwardCollaborative archaeological projects focused on the Nipmuc people of New England that offer a model for research incorporating Indigenous knowledge and scholarshipHighlighting the strong relationship between New England’s Nipmuc people and their land from the pre-contact period to the present day, this book helps demonstrate that the history of ... Read more

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  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

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  • American Grammar

    Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAAH STONE BOOK AWARDA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few ... Read more

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  • It Was Dark There All the Time

    Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada

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  • Firsting and Lasting

    Writing Indians out of Existence in New England

    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in ... Read more

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    How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

    When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central ... Read more

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  • Memory Lands

    King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European ... Read more

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    Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880

    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    This award–winning study examines American Indian communities in Southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction.From 1780–1880, Native Americans lived in the socioeconomic margins. They moved between semiautonomous communities and towns and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. Mandell centers his study on ethnic ... Read more

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    The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America

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