Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press imprint: 43 books
Longhorned Woodboring Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae and Disteniidae)
Primary Types of the Smithsonian Institution
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In terms of quantity and breadth, the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of longhorned woodboring beetles is one of the most important in the world. The effort to establish and describe this collection began as early as 1889, when the Smithsonian hired its first coleopterist (who was also only...
The First Smithsonian Collection
The European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016
In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution,...
Legacies
Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this lavishly illustrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own—outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds...
by Thomas Lera, Leon Finik
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A quiet philatelist, George H. Kaestlin joined the original Rossika Society in 1935 along with the better known Theo B. Lavroff and K. Szymanowski. Whereas Lavroff contributed significantly to Russian philately as an author and researcher and Szymanowski was an avid collector, Kaestlin collected privately....
Early Inuit Studies
Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual historyof Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and...
Mammals of Ungava and Labrador
The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In 1882 the Smithsonian Institution Arctic scientist, Lucien McShan Turner, traveled to the Ungava District that encompasses Northern Quebec and Labrador. There he spent 20 months as part of a mission to record meteorological data for an International Polar Year research program. While stationed at...
Reflections of a Culture Broker
A View from the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others....
Un Tejido Magico
El Bosque Tropical de Isla Barro Colorado (Spanish Edition)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Barro Colorado Island is the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the most thoroughly studied tropical rainforest on Earth. This book reveals the extreme interconnections of life in a tropical forest, with lavishly beautiful full-color photographs. It gives an eyewitness...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly...
by Ellen R. Feingold
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The Value of Money celebrates the power of using monetary objects to explore history. This richly illustrated book features over 175 objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s National Numismatic Collection. With objects from every inhabited continent, spanning more than...
Monitoring Biodiversity
Lessons from a Trans-Andean Megaproject
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The book compiles case studies regarding the biodiversity research and monitoring program of Andean species and habitats carefully chosen as indicators to assess the short- and long-term effects of a linear disturbance: the PERU LNG pipeline. Set in a scientifically unexplored region of the Andes,...
Many Voices, One Nation
Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North...
Open Borders to a Revolution
Culture, Politics, and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Open Borders to a Revolution is a collective enterprise studying the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. It marks both the bicentennial of Latin America’s independence from Spain and the...