The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America

The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America
Author: Bruce Cass
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Vinification - Amérique du Nord
ISBN: 9780198601142

An authoritative guide to wine production in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, highlighting geographical, philosophical, and commercial variations throughout the region. It consists of a series of introductory essays, discussing in depth key topics such as prohibition, cybersales, wine auctions,microbiology, labor, and viticulture, followed by more than 500 A-Z entries, including individual wineries and winemakers, regions, grape varieties, technical terms, and more. The text is complemented by 20 beautiful full-colour illustrations, and by an extensive map section. The text is closelylinked, for example by the use of cross-references, to the Oxford Companion to Wine, to which it serves as a complementary volume.

Native North American Art

Native North American Art
Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780192842183

The richness of Native American art is explored from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions. 53 color photos. 104 halftones. 8 maps.

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology
Author: Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195380118

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology reviews the continent's first and last foragers, farmers, and great pre-Columbian civic and ceremonial centers, from Chaco Canyon to Moundville and beyond.

North Oxford

North Oxford
Author: Tanis Hinchcliffe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300051841

And she looks at the inhabitants of the estate, members of the professional middle class whose social, religious, and educational views did not always necessarily fit into the traditional life of the Oxford colleges. Continuing her study up until 1970, Hinchcliffe also provides some interesting observations on the fate of Victorian suburbs and the efforts that have been made to maintain their character over time.

The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States

The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Author: Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780195132458

"A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."

North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Theda Perdue
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199794324

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Emigrants and Exiles

Emigrants and Exiles
Author: Kerby A. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195051872

Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

In Shakespeare's Shadow

In Shakespeare's Shadow
Author: Michael Blanding
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0316493287

The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction

Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America

Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America
Author: William Emery Doolittle
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2001
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780199250714

This is a significant contribution to the engaging and enduring theme of landscape creation and environmental adaptation in North America, which challenges established theories about native agriculture. Richly illustrated with over 200 maps, drawings, and photographs it contains a wealth of information for both scholars and students and is likely to be the standard reference work on the topic for many years to come.