Product Description: The mythology of gifted land is strong in the National Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were gifted by people who had little if any choice in the matter. Places like the Grand Canyons south rim and Glacier had to be bought, finagled, borrowed - or taken by force - when Indian occupants and owners resisted the call to contribute to the public welfare...read more

Product Description: Across the North, 26,000 Rebels died in what was called "Yankee captivity"―six times the number of Confederate dead listed for the battle of Gettysburg, and twice that for the Southern dead of Antietam, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Seven Days, Shiloh, and Second Manassas combined...read more

Product Description: This remarkable book recounts the life of Ndudi Umaru, a pastoral nomadic Fulani, who was born in the Nigeria-Cameroon border zone, but spent most of his life in Cameroon where he was treated for leprosy. Left to his own devices at an early age-his illness having separated him from his kith and kin-Ndudi is befriended by Père Boquené, a French missionary who takes him on as a field assistant...read more

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Explores the extent to which historic tourist attractions represent the contributions of women and minorities