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The Divided Dominion

Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia

University Press of Colorado

In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility of eradicating Native Americans for land at the forefront in understanding this pivotal event.

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A Chorus of Cranes

The Cranes of North America and the World

University Press of Colorado
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Epiphany in the Wilderness

Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West

University Press of Colorado
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Taken from the Paradise Isle

The Hoshida Family Story

Edited by Heidi Kim; Foreword by Franklin Odo
University Press of Colorado
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Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica

Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology

University Press of Colorado
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Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands

Integration, Interaction, Dissolution

University Press of Colorado
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The Myth of Quetzalcoatl

Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World

University Press of Colorado
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Surplus

The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life

University Press of Colorado
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Memory Traces

Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites

University Press of Colorado
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Heritage Keywords

Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage

University Press of Colorado
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Aztec Philosophy

Understanding a World in Motion

University Press of Colorado

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought.

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Kukulcan's Realm

Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán

University Press of Colorado

Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center.

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Transient Landscapes

Insights on a Changing Planet

University Press of Colorado
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Thiefing a Chance

Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad

University Press of Colorado
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The Verging Cities

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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The Ecology of Pastoralism

University Press of Colorado
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Bridging the Gaps

Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland

University Press of Colorado
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Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies

University Press of Colorado

Ancient market activities are dynamic in the economies of most ancient states, yet they have received little research from the archaeological community. Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies is the first book to address the development, change, and organizational complexity of ancient markets from a comparative archaeological perspective.

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Ancient Zapotec Religion

An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective

University Press of Colorado
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