Intimate Frontiers proposes an alternative model to understand the relative success of French Colonization in North America.
This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three...
In contrast, Dennis Walder convincingly shows that a postcolonial nostalgia afflicts late twentieth-century writers who have lived through the dislocations of European colonialism (Dennis Walder, Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, ...
Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865–1890 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 7–11. 10. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery, 1–16; Marion S. Goldman, Gold Diggers ...
... Indian Survival on the California Frontier , 32–39 . 4. Weber , Mexican Frontier , 15-42 , 62–68 , 180 , 190 , 196-97 ; Manuel P. Servín , " The Secularization of the California Missions : A Reappraisal , " Southern California Quarterly ...
A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.