Timber, Sail, and Rail

Timber, Sail, and RailWhile taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies,

The chapters bring both theoretical and empirical analysis to bear on the processes of assimilation

Discussion of each problem is augmented by a case discussion giving a real-world example of how the issue can occur and how it can be effectively dealt with by the manager

Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth

David Dinkins underwent intense scrutiny-first from the black community

and her recent explorations of eastern religions

The mechanism and sensationalism of Descartes and Newton precluded a real union of religion and science

Merchants were central to the huge growth in China’s foreign trade and contributed to the development of world markets and networks

the often overlooked element of hospice care

Crane shares eight works of short fiction

in her poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America

as well as physical evidence and wall depictions

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience