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Starkey, Marion L.; Catlin, George; Mooney, James: The Native Americans Series: (Starkey's) "The Cherokee Nation" with (Catlin's) "Letters and Notes on the North American Indians" with (Mooney's) "The Ghost Dance" 3 Volumes from the "Native Americans" Series - Hard Covers with Dust Jackets, North Dighton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. JG Press / World Pubns 1995
1572151226 Near Fine George Catlin, George Catlin,

- Three (3) hardcovers, all in matching uniform dust jackets, headbands, no names, two dust jackets are in Near Fine condition, Cherokee Nation" has a closed 2" slit on front cover "The Cherokee Nation" by Marion L. Starkey, 1995, (ix) 335 (vi) pages, "The Cherokee Nation tells the tragic story of a great and beloved people both before and after it was uprooted from its ancestral lands in the Southeast, and forced to travel the "Trail of Tears" to resettlement across the Misssissippi in Intian Territory. This classic history describes the harmonoius relationship that first existed between Indians and whites, how the Cherokees had adopted modern dress and technology and even developed their own alphabet - until greed and cynicism shatterecd the bond and led to one of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in American history." /// "Letters and Notes on the North American Indians" by George Catlin, 1995, 2 Volumes in 1, 298 + 291 pages, "Written by one of the greatest American ethologists and artist of the nineteenth century, Letters and Notes on the North American Indians is George Catlin's sympathetic account of the manners, customs, and living conditions of the Indian tribes of the American frontier during his travels between 1832 - 1839. Filled with four hundred of the author's own illustrations, this classic work celebrated all aspects of a vibrant Native American civilization, which in a few short decades would almost cease to exist." /// "The Ghost Dance" by James Mooney, 1996, 498 pages, "First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th -century. Filled with remarkable photographs, the book vividly describes the background, developmnent, and practice of The Ghost Dance - as well as the violent reaction to it, resulting in the tragic massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890." Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo 1st JG Press Editions Very Good to Near Fine Hard Covers 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: INDIANS NORTH AMERICA SOUTHERN STATES, - Three (3) hardcovers, all in matching uniform dust jackets, headbands, no names, dust jackets are in Very Good Plus condition with faint edge wear. "The Cherokee Nation" by Marion L. Starkey, (ix) 335 (vi) pages, "The Cherokee Nation tells the tragic story of a great and beloved people both before and after it was uprooted from its ancestral lands in the Southeast, and forced to travel the "Trail of Tears" to resettlement across the Misssissippi in Intian Territory. This classic history describes the harmonoius relationship that first existed between Indians and whites, how the Cherokees had adopted modern dress and technology and even developed their own alphabet - until greed and cynicism shatterecd the bond and led to one of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in American history." /// "Letters and Notes on the North American Indians" by George Catlin, 2 Volumes in 1, 298 + 291 pages, "Written by one of the greatest American ethologists and artist of the nineteenth century, Letters and Notes on the North American Indians is George Catlin's sympathetic account of the manners, customs, and living conditions of the Indian tribes of the American frontier during his travels between 1832 - 1839. Filled with four hundred of the author's own illustrations, this classic work celebrated all aspects of a vibrant Native American civilization, which in a few short decades would almost cease to exist." /// "The Ghost Dance" by James Mooney, 498 pages, "First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th -century. Filled with remarkable photographs, the book vividly describes the background, developmnent, and practice of The Ghost Dance - as well as the violent reaction to it, resulting in the tragic massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890." The 3 books packaged weight is around 4 Kilos, so depending on destination extra shipping may be asked. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock PhotoBiographies]

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Prestowitz, Clyde Clyde: ROGUE NATION: AMERICAN UNILATERALISM AND THE FAILURE OF GOOD INTENTIONS, New York Basic Books 2003
0465062792 AS NEW

<B> "The term "rogue nation," formerly reserved for outlaw countries, is increasingly applied to the United States - not only by enemies but by people and nations who have been steadfast friends. The litany is familar to anyone who has ever read an op-ed page. In the six months before 9/11, the United States walked away from a treaty to control the world traffic in small arms, the Kyoto accord, a treaty to eliminate land mines, the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention, and many other international agreements. After a brief flurry of coalition-building following the attack, the United States turned a cold shoulder to NATO's offers to assist with the invasion of Afghanistan, unilaterally terminated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement with Russia, and actively opposed the creation of an International Criminal Court. Then came the war on Iraq, begun despite the clear refusal of the United Nations Security Council to authorize an invasion." Rogue Nation is not an argument against American dominance or the exercise of American power. It's an argument against stupidity, arrogance and ignorance in the exercise of power. Prestowitz explores the historical roots of the unilateral impulse and shows how it now influences every important area of American foreign policy: trade and economic policy, arms control, energy, environment, agriculture. In every area, he argues, a multilateral approach, consistent with our humane and liberal core values, is also in our long-term best interests. SYNOPSIS: Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute of Washington, D.C., explores the historical roots of American unilateralism and shows how it influences important areas of American foreign policy, including trade and economic policy, arms control, energy, environment, and agriculture. He argues that in every area a multilateral approach consistent with humane and liberal core values is in our country's long-term best interest. FROM THE CRITICS The New York Times: If you want to know how the American colossus looks to the rest of the world, Rogue Nation, by Clyde Prestowitz, is your book -- an unsparing but unhysterical catalog of American behavior that has made the world see us as self-centered and hypocritical. The counts in the indictment are familiar: We preach fair trade but underwrite American cotton farmers at such high prices that we keep African farmers in poverty. We guzzle petroleum, and then need a foreign policy that overemphasizes one region of the globe. We preach democracy and dance with tyrants. ''Rogue Nation'' could serve as an appendix to this month's global poll by the Pew Research Center, which shows a balloning fear and mistrust of the United States around the world. — Bill Keller The Los Angeles Times Prestowitz has done us an enormous service by pointing out that the men and women who call themselves conservatives today are truly radicals who have alienated America's friends everywhere. The great power of the United States is no longer perceived as benign - perhaps not anywhere outside of client states like Likud Israel and Taiwan. Prestowitz details the transgressions of rhetoric and action that have offended our erstwhile allies and led them to fear the Bush administration more than they fear the likes of Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il. America, he contends, has ceased to be viewed as a "good international citizen" and has become a "candidate for the rogue nation list." — Warren I. Cohen Publishers Weekly As the worldwide outpouring of post-9/11 sympathy for America has given way to worldwide anti-American protests, Americans are asking why the world hates us. <P><B>This nuanced but unsparing book gives a bill of particulars. American high-handedness has exacerbated tensions in hot spots from the West Bank to the Korean peninsula. American unilateralism has sabotaged a host of international agreements on such issues as land mines, biological, etc. </B><P> Hardcover 9.57x6.47x1.07 in. 1.33 lbs. Small Remainder Mark Outer PP.

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Leepson, Marc: Flag: An American Biography, New York St. Martin's Press 2005
0-312-32308-5 As New Condition

The nation turns to it as an emotional, political, and patriotic symbol in good times and bad. Americans fly it everywhere we live and everywhere we go, from front porches in Florida to pickup trucks in Alaska. We display the red-white-and-blue American flag at festive events to celebrate and, at times of national tragedy, to grieve and show our resolve. We wrap ourselves in it in displays of patriotism, politics, nationalism, and jingoism. The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. It stirs something in the hearts of Americans like no other symbol. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive, illuminating look at the history of the American flag from its beginnings to today. <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in">Journalist, historian, and author of the highly acclaimed Saving Monticello, Leepson uncovers scores of little-known, fascinating facts as he traces the evolution of the American flag from the Colonial period to its prominent role as a symbol of American resolve in today's war against terrorism. <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in">Flag sifts through the historical evidence to---among many other things---uncover the truth behind the Betsy Ross myth and to discover the true designer of the stars and stripes. The book also shinesinforming light on a string of colorful and influential Americans who shaped the history of the American flag. <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in">Leepson analyzes the influence and impact of the maker of the star-spangled banner, Mary Pickersgill; the author of the national anthem, Francis Scott Key; the coiner of the phrase "Old Glory," U.S. Navy Capt. Samuel Driver; the first officer killed in the Civil War, Union Col. Elmer Ellsworth, who died defending the flag; the first African-American Medal of Honor recipient, William Carney, who carried the flag and led troops through a viciously bloody Civil War battle; the creator of Flag Day, Wisconsin schoolteacher B. J. Cigrand; the father of the pledge of allegiance, Francis Bellamy; and Joe Rosenthal, the AP photographer who took the most reproduced image of the twentieth century, the marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima. <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in"> The American flag was seen as a symbol of a "divine plan" for the American ideal during the Civil War; as a symbol of the nation's historical heritage at the 1876 centennial celebrations; as a symbol conveying respect for the government and our social institutions---the so-called "cult of the flag"---in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. During the Vietnam War, the flag was a divisive emblem in a bitterly divided nation. In the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, the flag became an instant and widely used symbol of a nation united against terrorism. <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.25in">"Flag," as the novelist Nelson DeMille says in his preface, "is not a book with an agenda or a subjective point of view. It is an objective history of the American flag, well researched, well presented, easy to read and understand, and very informative and entertaining." Publishers Weekly Leepson notes that "no country in the world can match the intensity of the American citizenry's attachment to the... Stars and Stripes." He goes on to chart the evolution of the flag and Americans' relationship with it in its detail-packed history. Despite the famous image in George Washington Crossing the Delaware, Leepson (Saving Monticello) says, the general's boat did not display the Stars and Stripes; the Continental Congress hadn't yet determined what the American flag would be. And "flagmania," as a 19th-century newspaper termed it, began only Hardcover 9.5 in x 6.5 in x 1.0 in

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SHEPHERD, JEFFREY P. We Are An Indian Nation: A History Of The Hualapai People. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2010.

304 pages. Though not as well known as the U.S. military campaigns against the Apache, the ethnic warfare conducted against indigenous people of the Colorado River basin was equally devastating. In less than twenty-five years after first encountering Anglos, the Hualapais had lost more than half their population and nearly all their land and found themselves consigned to a reservation. This book focuses on the historical construction of the Hualapai Nation in the face of modern American colonialism. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and participant observation, Jeffrey Shepherd describes how thirteen bands of extended families known as The Pai confronted American colonialism and in the process recast themselves as a modern Indigenous nation. Shepherd shows that Hualapai nation-building was a complex process shaped by band identities, competing visions of the past, creative reactions to modernity, and resistance to state power. He analyzes how the Hualapais transformed an externally imposed tribal identity through nationalist discourses of protecting aboriginal territory; and he examines how that discourse strengthened the Hualapais' claim to land and water while simultaneously reifying a politicized version of their own history. Along the way, he sheds new light on familiar topicsNIndian-white conflict, the creation of tribal government, wage labor, federal policy, and Native activismNby applying theories of race, space, historical memory, and decolonization. Drawing on recent work in American Indian history and Native American studies, Shepherd shows how the Hualapai have strived to reclaim a distinct identity and culture in the face of ongoing colonialism. We Are an Indian Nation is grounded in Hualapai voices and agendas while simultaneously situating their history in the larger tapestry of Native peoples' confrontations with colonialism and modernity. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Native American, American Indian, Hualapai, Arizona, Colorado River).]

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