Family Life in Native America

Informationen zum Autor James M. Volo , PhD, has been teaching physics, physical science, and astronomy for the past 39 years. He received his bachelor's from City College in New York, his masters from American Military University, and his doctorate from Berne University. He has taught on the Graduate level for more than 15 years and authored several reference works regarding U.S. military, social, and cultural history. In addition, he has consulted on TV and movie productions. Among his published works are Blue Water Patriots: The American Revolution Afloat (Greenwood, 2006), Daily Life in Civil War America (Greenwood, 1998), Family Life in the 19th Century (Greenwood, 2007), the Popular Culture of the Antebellum Period (Greenwood, 2004), and the Encyclopedia of the Antebellum South (Greenwood, 2000). Several of which were co-authored with his wife Dorothy Denneen Volo. Presently, Dr. Volo teaches at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Dorothy Denneen Volo is a math teacher at Norwalk Public Schools in Norwalk, Conn. She is co-author of Family Life in 17th and 18th Century America (Greenwood, 2006), Daily Life during the American Revolution (Greenwood, 2003), and many other Greenwood titles. Klappentext This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. These Native Americans were among the most familiar to Euro-colonials for more than two centuries. From the tribes of the northeast woodlands came "great hunters, fishermen, farmers and fighters, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated Indian nation north of Mexico [the Iroquois Confederacy]. Zusammenfassung This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. ...

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• Autori: Dorothy Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo, James Volo, James M Volo, James M. Volo, Volo James M.
• Editore: Greenwood Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.10.2007
• EAN: 9780313337956
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33795-6
• Dimensioni: 163 mm x 243 mm x 35 mm
• Serie: Family Life Through History; Family Life through History
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Sociology: family & relationships, Relating to indigenous peoples, Sociology: family and relationships, North America (USA and Canada), Race and Ethnicity: American Indian Studies