Altamira imprint: 416 books
Aldous Huxley Recollected
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Best-selling author Aldous Huxley's American years have been a period literary historians discounted. His reputation suffered after his exile to California, which he undertook partly for the sake of his failing sight, partly out of disappointment with the European peace movement, and partly in search...
Breakfast
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
From corn flakes to pancakes*, Breakfast: A History* explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it...
Politics of Yiddish
Studies in Language, Literature and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Politics of Yiddish means different things to different people. For some it refers to the various social and political forces that shaped the status and the functional diversification of the language. For others it may be analyzed within the context of personal or even collective love and hate of...
by Mary Lagerwey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1998
"My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1933–1938
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" from the Jewish perspective. This first volume, taking us from Hitler's rise to power through...
New Orleans
A Food Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans...
The Museum in America
Innovators and Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The Museum in America captures the life stories of thirteen visionary museum leaders who helped transform the 19th century's collection of curios into today's institution of public service and education. In the lively style of Museum Masters, Alexander recounts the stories of pioneers in American...
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
Chicanas in Charge
Texas Women in the Public Arena
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in various public capacities—federal judges,...
by Bruce Kraig, Patty Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy....
Religion on Trial
How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
The free exercise of conscience is under threat in the United States. Already the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court is reversing the progress of religious liberty that had been steadily advancing. And this danger will only increase if more conservative judges are nominated to the court. This...
by Timothy R. Pauketat
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively,...
Living Histories
Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has...
Reading Native American Women
Critical/Creative Representations
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and...