Developed in association with the Ministry of Education. Teach Social Studies with an updated second edition written by a team of experienced Bahamian teachers and educators, retaining the popular style and approach of the first edition with the addition of some great new features. - Help students develop their reading and writing skills - Capture the readers imaginiation with engaging, full-colour illustrations by Caribbean artists, and cover information in a more accesible way with clearly laid out pages. - Encourage independent learning with a great variety of stimulating texts. - Cover curriculum fully with the inclusion of new themes that have become part of the cultural and social awareness over recent years. - Ensure success and enjoyment while learning with a lively, activity-based approach. - Support learning and help develop new vocabulary with a key word gloassary.

Developed in association with the Ministry of Education. Teach Social Studies with an updated second edition written by a team of experienced Bahamian teachers and educators, retaining the popular style and approach of the first edition with the addition of some great new features. - Help students develop their reading and writing skills - Capture the readers imaginiation with engaging, full-colour illustrations by Caribbean artists, and cover information in a more accesible way with clearly laid out pages. - Encourage independent learning with a great variety of stimulating texts. - Cover curriculum fully with the inclusion of new themes that have become part of the cultural and social awareness over recent years. - Ensure success and enjoyment while learning with a lively, activity-based approach. - Support learning and help develop new vocabulary with a key word gloassary.

Developed in association with the Ministry of Education. Teach Social Studies with an updated second edition written by a team of experienced Bahamian teachers and educators, retaining the popular style and approach of the first edition with the addition of some great new features. - Help students develop their reading and writing skills - Capture the readers imaginiation with engaging, full-colour illustrations by Caribbean artists, and cover information in a more accesible way with clearly laid out pages. - Encourage independent learning with a great variety of stimulating texts. - Cover curriculum fully with the inclusion of new themes that have become part of the cultural and social awareness over recent years. - Ensure success and enjoyment while learning with a lively, activity-based approach. - Support learning and help develop new vocabulary with a key word gloassary.

A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this collection contextualize St. Louis, exploring French-Native relations, the agency of empire in the Illinois Country, the role of women in "mapping" the French colonial world, fashion and identity, and commodities and exchange in St. Louis as part of a broader politics of consumption in colonial America. The collection also provides a comparative perspective on America's two great Creole cities, St. Louis and New Orleans. Lastly, it looks at the Frenchness of St. Louis in the nineteenth century and the present. French St. Louis recasts the history of St. Louis and reimagines regional development in the early American republic, shedding light on its francophone history.

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To do this, he also offers the first comprehensive environmental history of some of North America’s most radically transformed landscapes—the former tallgrass prairies—in the period before they became the monocultural “corn belt” we know today. Morrissey situates the complex rise and fall of the Illinois, Meskwaki, and Myaamia peoples from roughly the collapse of Cahokia (thirteenth to fourteenth century CE) to the mid-eighteenth century in the context of millennia-long environmental shifts, as changes to the climate shifted bison geographies and tribes adapted their cultures to become pedestrian bison hunters. Tracing dynamic chains of causation from microscopic viruses to massive forces of climate, from the deep time of evolution to the specific events of human lifetimes, from local Illinois village economies to market forces an ocean away, People of the Ecotone offers new insight on Indigenous power and Indigenous logics.

From the beginnings of colonial settlement in Illinois Country, the region was characterized by self-determination and collaboration that did not always align with imperial plans. The French in Quebec established a somewhat reluctant alliance with the Illinois Indians while Jesuits and fur traders planted defiant outposts in the Illinois River Valley beyond the Great Lakes. These autonomous early settlements were brought into the French empire only after the fact. As the colony grew, the authority that governed the region was often uncertain. Canada and Louisiana alternately claimed control over the Illinois throughout the eighteenth century. Later, British and Spanish authorities tried to divide the region along the Mississippi River. Yet Illinois settlers and Native people continued to welcome and partner with European governments, even if that meant playing the competing empires against one another in order to pursue local interests. Empire by Collaboration explores the remarkable community and distinctive creole culture of colonial Illinois Country, characterized by compromise and flexibility rather than domination and resistance. Drawing on extensive archival research, Robert Michael Morrissey demonstrates how Natives, officials, traders, farmers, religious leaders, and slaves constantly negotiated local and imperial priorities and worked purposefully together to achieve their goals. Their pragmatic intercultural collaboration gave rise to new economies, new forms of social life, and new forms of political engagement. Empire by Collaboration shows that this rugged outpost on the fringe of empire bears central importance to the evolution of early America.

A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this collection contextualize St. Louis, exploring French-Native relations, the agency of empire in the Illinois Country, the role of women in "mapping" the French colonial world, fashion and identity, and commodities and exchange in St. Louis as part of a broader politics of consumption in colonial America. The collection also provides a comparative perspective on America's two great Creole cities, St. Louis and New Orleans. Lastly, it looks at the Frenchness of St. Louis in the nineteenth century and the present. French St. Louis recasts the history of St. Louis and reimagines regional development in the early American republic, shedding light on its francophone history.

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To do this, he also offers the first comprehensive environmental history of some of North America’s most radically transformed landscapes—the former tallgrass prairies—in the period before they became the monocultural “corn belt” we know today. Morrissey situates the complex rise and fall of the Illinois, Meskwaki, and Myaamia peoples from roughly the collapse of Cahokia (thirteenth to fourteenth century CE) to the mid-eighteenth century in the context of millennia-long environmental shifts, as changes to the climate shifted bison geographies and tribes adapted their cultures to become pedestrian bison hunters. Tracing dynamic chains of causation from microscopic viruses to massive forces of climate, from the deep time of evolution to the specific events of human lifetimes, from local Illinois village economies to market forces an ocean away, People of the Ecotone offers new insight on Indigenous power and Indigenous logics.

This book covers over 30 years of work starting in 1975. About 30 poems were written between 1975 thru 1978. No writing again until 2004 when I joined the poets' workshop online poetry site. Since then I have written around 80 poems in the last 6 months. There are many different styles of poetry ranging from free verse, complete rhyme, haiku's, senryu's, lyrics for songs, and a few unconventional styles with my own modified style of rhyme, meter, pentameter. The poems range from ones about my two marriages, divorce, my kids, losing everything, starting over, etc. etc. being a weekend father and all the loneliness and pain one has to deal with in a divorce. My views of life and lessons I have learned. Many different subjects I have written about. Main theme of new work is from my 'hopeless romantic' side. Basically the story of my life in poetry.