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Uses archaeological research on four neighbourhoods that were razed during the construction of public housing in World War II-era New Orleans. Although each of these neighbourhoods was identified as a "slum" historically, the material record challenges the simplicity of this designation.

Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast. In Megadrought in the Carolinas, John Cable demonstrates through the application of innovative ceramic analysis that a fifteenth-century abandonment event took place across an area of some 34.5 million acres centered on the South Carolina coast.

In 1967, a US Marine firebase only two miles from the DMZ captured the attention of the world's media. "Con Thien" combines James P. Coan's experiences with information from archives, interviews with battle participants, and official documents to construct a story of the daily life and combat on the red clay bulls-eye known as "The Hill of Angels."

In this study centering on the Cherokee Nation, we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries - removal, the Civil War and allotment of their lands - forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society.

On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay, ripping the Liscome Bay in half and killing 644 of her crew. This title pays homage to the crew by telling their story of experience and sacrifice.

The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of knowledge to the general public about this ancient Mesoamerican culture.

This comprehensive history of Mobile celebrates the heritage of Alabama's oldest city and commemorates the city's tricentennial from 1702 to the 21st century. Scholars of Mobile history have collaborated to produce a narrative that showcases the range of influences on this bustling maritime city.

This text confronts questions public managers face in their efforts to meet demands of reform and innovation. It considers bureaucratic resistance, the dilemma faced when a reform agenda runs counter to the law, and the belief that improved management can remedy flawed policy.

A comprehensive description of the African language of Yoruba - the dominant language of the east Guinea coast - as it is used on the Island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. This work examines the linguistic heritage of the language as it was successively altered, retained and discarded.

A study of bank-loan failures during the Florida land-boom of the mid-1920s. The author shows that, despite official disclaimers and previous historical accounts, virtually every bank failure that occurred involved massive insider abuses, a conscious conspiracy to defraud - or both.

The De Soto expedition forms an integral part of the great age of discovery and conquest in the Americas triggered by the Columbian voyages. This two-volume set offers new and refined translations of writings about the expedition, and previously unpublished documents relevant to it.

A study of the effect computer-mediated communication systems have on the way people think and talk not only about technology but also about their own psychological, interpersonal, social, legal, economic and political systems.