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Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples

Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples

Roger L. Nichols

Here in the University of Arizona History Department, Katrina Jagodinsky and the First Friday Readers Group read a draft of the introduction and offered insightful suggestions about it. I am grateful for all of this effective help and the ...
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in ...

On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in ...

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Likewise, Katrina Jagodinsky wants to know why popular and scholarly histories of Arizona's “founding fathers” have almost entirely ignored the Indian children those men indentured, exploited, and cared for, along with the mixedrace children ...
Centering Animals in Latin American History:

Centering Animals in Latin American History:

Zeb Tortorici

She would also like to thank Bert Barickman, Alison Eutrell, Kevin Gosner, Keisuke Hirano, Katrina Jagodinsky, Steve Johnstone, Eabio Lanza, and Neil Prendergast for reading the chapter and for their helpful suggestions. Thanks also to Alex ...
For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in ...

For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in ...

Martha Few

Additionally, I received helpful research assistance from Matthew Furlong, Tracy Goode, Ryan Kashanipour, Katrina Jagodinsky, Max Mangraviti, Lisa Munro, Cory Schott, and Robert Scott when they were UA graduate students. I owe so much ...
Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s ...

Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s ...

Katrina Jagodinsky

“An Act to Regulate Marriages,” Statutes of the Terr. of Washington 1855, 404– 405. ... as parents and is indexed online through the Washington State Digital Archives, www.digitalarchives.wa.gov (accessed August 12, 2014). ... Washington (State), Legislative Assembly. Council. Journal of the Proceedings of the Council, of Washington Territory, During the . . . Regular Session, Olympia, 1855, 59, 99.
A Storm Called Katrina

A Storm Called Katrina

Myron Uhlberg

A moving story of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the people of New Orleans, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy.
Child Workers in England, 1780–1820: Parish Apprentices and ...

Child Workers in England, 1780–1820: Parish Apprentices and ...

Katrina Honeyman

Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force Katrina Honeyman, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History Katrina Honeyman. Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ...
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity ...

Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity ...

Katrina Honeyman

Diversity and Agency, 1750–1914 Katrina Honeyman, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History Katrina Honeyman Nigel Goose. First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, ...
Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

Henry A. Giroux

Uses the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to examine the strengthening of antidemocratic forces and their threat to freedoms in the United States.
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Amy Koritz

This collection of essays documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
Explorations in Applied Geography

Explorations in Applied Geography

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11 Katrina Devastation A Comparative Analysis with Future Plans Ashok K. Dutt and Meera Chatterjee The coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in the USA have been catastrophically damaged by the hurricane Katrina.
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

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The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced.
Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and ...

Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and ...

William R. Freudenburg

That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” but a tragedy of our own making—and one that could become commonplace.
Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

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In Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora, edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek, 79–103. Austin: University of Texas Press. Weber, Lynn, and Lori Peek, eds. 2012. Displaced: Voices from the Katrina Diaspora. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

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Priscilla Dass-Brailsford described the height of cultural insensitivity in the aftermath of Katrina in which emergency responders were told, “'Ignore the dead. . . . We want the living.' The comment struck Dass-Brailsford as deeply insensitive to ...
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Lynn Weber

Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Beverly Wright, In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race after Katrina (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). 8. United ...
Art and Identity at the Water's Edge

Art and Identity at the Water's Edge

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Anna Hartnell Introduction: Framing Katrina The breaches in the New Orleans levees in the late summer of 2005 left 80 per cent of the city submerged beneath water. In thus unsettling our ability to locate the water's edge, Hurricane Katrina ...
Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina

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Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina Danielle A. Hidalgo, Kristen Barber. Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina, Edited by Danielle A. Hidalgo and Kristen Barber This book first published 2007 by Cambridge ...
Before, During, After: Louisiana Photographers' Visual ...

Before, During, After: Louisiana Photographers' Visual ...

John Biguenet

The book emphasizes not only the effect of Hurricane Katrina, but also the way individuals are influenced by their environments, particularly in times of upheaval.
K.O.'d at Banzai Pipeline

K.O.'d at Banzai Pipeline

Victoria Heckman

Honolulu Police officer Katrina Ogden, K.O., has faced many dangers: drug dealers, murderers, robbers, burglars, but she faces her greatest challenge yet.
Children of Katrina

Children of Katrina

Alice Fothergill

In this book, they focus intimately on seven children between the ages of three and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied experiences of the larger group.
Children of Katrina

Children of Katrina

Alice Fothergill

In this book, they focus intimately on seven children between the ages of three and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied experiences of the larger group.
Buddy

Buddy

M.H. Herlong

Buddy turns out to be the dog Li'l T's always wished for--until Hurricane Katrina comes to New Orleans and he must leave Buddy behind.
Blackheart: A Transformational Adventure

Blackheart: A Transformational Adventure

Dawn Clark

As random bombings rock America, elite rogue operative John Clark enlists unlikely help: the psi abilities of Dr. Katrina Walker.
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity ...

Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England: Diversity ...

Katrina Honeyman

The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions.
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival

The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival

Katrina Blair

Whether readers are based at home or traveling, this book aims to empower individuals to maintain a state of optimal health with minimal cost and effort.
Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870

Women, Gender and Industrialisation in England, 1700-1870

Katrina Honeyman

Women have played an important role in the labour force for hundreds of years, yet it is often assumed that their work was less valuable than the tasks performed by men.

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