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In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins.

Provides the first inside view of the workings of La Castaneda General Insane Asylum - a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.

Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race--in early colonial Mexico and afterward.

In War-Path and Bivouac, John Finerty recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that his correspondence covering the campaign for the Chicago Times reappeared in its entirety in his book. But that turns out not to be the case, as readers will discover in this volume.

The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean.

Presents a history of environmental injustice, corporate malfeasance, political treachery, and a community fighting for its life. These frank and often heartrending stories evoke the grim reality of labouring under giant machines and lava-spewing furnaces while turning mountains of rock into copper ingots.

Places George C. Marshall squarely at the centre of the story of the American century by examining his tenure in key policymaking positions during the early Cold War period, including army chief of staff, special presidential envoy to China, secretary of state, and secretary of defense, among others.

Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford made her way to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. This is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century.

On December 28, 1894 Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. On the gallows, Two Sticks declared, "My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy." The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in detail in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota.

Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, F.W. Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts.

Challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace, Mark Santiago argues it was a period of sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict.

Texas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an "emergency" state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU.

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world.

Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? In a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon Mihesuah offers an accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived.

Adds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. Verity McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed.

What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder's interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This book brings to light the little-known agrarian roots of an American department store chain.

Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity.

Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, A. Gabriel Melendez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.

A common misperception is that Mayas have no languages of their own, only dialectos, and therefore live in silence. In reality, contemporary Mayas are anything but voiceless. This book is a collection of poems and short stories by indigenous authors from Chiapas, and is an inspiring testimony to their literary achievements.

Examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. Reclaiming this lost history, John Rhea looks at the cultural processes through which women were connected to Indian history.

Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. In Sea of Sand, Michael Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders.

Following Oklahoma's flagship school through decades that saw six US presidents, eleven state governors, and five university presidents, Volume 2 of The University of Oklahoma: A History documents the institution's evolution into a complex, diverse, and multifaceted seat of learning.

This exhaustive reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph - and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard Etulain assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity's legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives.

Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership that Native people face.

In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the US economy to those of American Indian peoples. In this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Post, its Navajo clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading.

The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used throughout this volume.