American History

This book takes reader through the 1904 Lousiana Purchase Exhibition to see how anthropology showcased itself through programmes, static displays and living exhibits for millions of people "to show each half of the world how the other half lives". More that two thousand Native peoples negotiated and portrayed their own agendas on this world stage. The reader will see how anthropology itself wa schanged in the process.

Hardback. 536 pages. NEW. 

In this book the author reveaals the remarkable story of the construction of the canal and the tens of thousands of working men and women who travelled from around the world to build it. Green explores the human dimensions of the Panama Canal project and describes how it transformed perceptions of American empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Hardback. 476pp. NEW.