David Gray Watters

Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology

Provides a politically and historically informed review of Cuban archaeology, from both American and Cuban perspectives. Many Americans are aware of the political, economic, and personal impacts of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. But the communication blockade between scholars has also affected the histo...

Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean

This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities.Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in the Cari...

The Encyclopedia of New England

Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup, and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively American place and a distinctive place within America. Yet these images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is New England in the twenty...

The Story of a Bad Boy (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)

In 1869 Thomas Bailey Aldrich introduced to American literature the original “bad boy”--that all-American boy who plays harmless pranks, devises exciting adventures, has an occasional bout of love-sickness, is bored on Sundays, and is well-liked by almost everyone. Later followed by Mark Twain’s The...

At the Foot of the Snows: A Journey of Faith and Words among the Kham-Speaking People of Nepal

At the Foot of the Snows tells the inspiring story of an American family living among the virtually unknown Kham Magar of Nepal, developing a deep bond of friendship that transcended their cultural divide. Through years of study and hard work, they translated Scripture into the Kham language, igniti...

At the Foot of the Snows: A Journey of Faith and Words among the Kham-Speaking People of Nepal by David E. Watters (11/16/2011)

Typological Writings (The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series, Volume 11) (Vol 11)

This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive, readable, and annotated text of the key typological notebooks of Jonathan Edwards: "Images of Divine Things, " "Types Notebook, " and Miscellany 1069, "Types of the Messiah." These three works illustrate the way the eminent eighteenth-century ...

A Grammar of Kham (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions)

This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language has an unusual structure, containing a number of characteristics that are of immediate relevance to current work on lingu...