This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment.
Rachel Peden once wrote of this book, "I wanted the land to be the main character, and to write about the family farm, its change, survival, character, and of people's love of the land and need of it as a basic human hunger.
Above it is a cliff now known as Hoffman's Bluff but called Sqásca (“hit rock”) in Secwepemctsín, which features a cave with a long crack in the rock wall as an opening. Here, Tllí7sa vanquishes a powerful, people-killing groundhog that ...
Contextualized by a detailed historical introduction and timeline charting 150 years of Palestinian and Jewish resistance to Zionism, this collection will stir emotions, provoke fresh thinking, and point to a more hopeful, loving future-one ...
... 1801–1835, National Archives, Washington, D.C., 1952 Papers Sam B. Smith and Harriet Chappell Owsley, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1770–1803 (Knoxville, 1980) SBHL Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville, ...
This book addresses the right of indigenous peoples to live, own and use their traditional territories, and analyses how international law addresses this.
This book analyses whether the international legal regime provides indigenous peoples with the collective right to live on their traditional territories.
trusts, they have been affirmed because the land trusts now own the gardens. The implications of this shift of ownership are worth examining in some detail. Private Rights to the City? Land trusts operate in the murky region between ...
Photographer Tim Harmon has spent the past five years photographing the Republic of China. His sensitive images capture the feelings of the land, its people in both work and play,...
This book also contributes to a long-running debate about American values by revealing how veneration for small, private properties has shaped the political consciousness of strip mining opponents.