In this volume, noted historians and anthropologists pool their considerable expertise to analyze the situation in Guatemala, working from the premise that the Indian/state relationship is the single most important determinant of Guatemala's distinctive h
The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.
Charles Olson was an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of twentieth-century poetry in America; this study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work.
A broadly cross-cultural study of aristocracy in chiefly societies.
This groundbreaking book explores the Southwest as both a real and a culturally constructed site of migration and encounter, in which the very identities of "alien" and "native" shift with each act of travel.
A boldly revisionist view of the organization of the ayllu, ancient Andean kinship groups.
A vivid, firsthand account of the migrations, immigrant camps, and labor organizing of displaced Midwestern farmers during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, illustrated with striking photographs.
A provocative rethinking of the war on terror that exposes the dangers of Western blindness to colonial Middle Eastern history and breaks the deadlock of geopolitics and religious identity.
By one of the foremost historians and translators in the field of Classics, Peter Green-an authoritative, modern translation of a long-neglected historian whose work covers the most vital century in ancient Greek history.
In this literary novel set in nineteenth-century Texas, a Tejana lesbian cowgirl embarks on an adventure after the fall of the Alamo.Micaela Campos witnesses the violence against Mexicans, African Americans, and indigenous peoples after the infamous battles of the Alamo and of San Jacinto, both in 1836. Resisting an easy opposition between good versus evil and brown versus white characters, the novel also features Micaela's Mexican-Anglo cousin who assists and hinders her progress. Micaela's travels give us a new portrayal of the American West, populated by people of mixed races who are vexed by the collision of cultures and politics. Ultimately, Micaela's journey and her romance with a Black/American Indian woman teach her that there are no easy solutions to the injustices that birthed the Texas Republic...This novel is an intervention in queer history and fiction with its love story between two women of color in mid-nineteenth-century Texas. Perez also shows how a colonial past still haunts our nation's imagination. The battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto offered freedom and liberty to Texans, but what is often erased from the story is that common people who were Mexican, Indian, and Black did not necessarily benefit from the influx of so many Anglo immigrants to Texas. The social themes and identity issues that Perez explorespolitical climate, debates over immigration, and historical revision of the American Westare current today.';Perez's sparse, clean writing style is a blend of Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, and Annie Proulx. This makes for a quick and engrossing reading experience as the narrative has a fluid quality about it.' Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor and chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Sor Juana's Second Dream';Riveting... Emma Perez captures well the violence and the chaos of the southwest borderlands during the time of territorial and international disputes in the 1800s.... Perez vividly depicts the conflicts between nations with the authority of a historian and with language belonging to a poet. A fine, fine read.' Helena Maria Viramontes, author of Their Dogs Came with Them';Perez's new novel... Powerfully presents a revenge tale from an unusual point of view, that of a displaced Chicana in 1836 Texas.... The writing is sharp and clever. The dialogue is realistic.' Lambda Literary, Lambda Award Finalist';Filled with lush beauty, harshness, and horrifying brutality, this is one of those books in which you just KNOW what's going to happen at the endbut you're wrong.' The Gay & Lesbian Review
An economic history of Texas in the late nineteenth century.
John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Tom Stoppard's work in nearly a decade.
Viewing popular women's daytime TV programs of the 1950s from a feminist perspective.
The history of a land company, its railroad parent, and its role in the development of Northwest Texas.
A sparkling collection of tales told around Western campfires.
This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
The history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech, based on a long-term study of adult speakers.
In this volume, experts in film studies and art history take up the debate, begun by philosopher Walter Benjamin, about the power and scope of the image in a secular age.
This anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of children in the Middle East by presenting materials by both Middle Eastern and Western scholars.
An evaluation of the revolution from the point of view of the political ideologies of 1848.
';Inside information on a wondrously droll, highly classified yarn from WWII... A well-told, stranger-than-fiction tale that could make a terrific movie.' Kirkus Reviews The plan: attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan's major cities. As the bats went to roost, a million fires would flare up in remote crannies of the wood and paper buildings common throughout Japan. When their cities were reduced to ashes, the Japanese would surely capitulate... Told here by the youngest member of the team, this is the story of the bat bomb project, or Project X-Ray, as it was officially known. In scenes worthy of a Capra or Hawks comedy, Jack Couffer recounts the unorthodox experiments carried out in the secrecy of Bandera, Texas, Carlsbad, New Mexico, and El Centro, California, in 1942-1943 by ';Doc' Adams' private army. This oddball cast of characters included an eccentric inventor, a distinguished Harvard scientist, a biologist with a chip on his shoulder, a movie star, a Texas guano collector, a crusty Marine Corps colonel, a Maine lobster fisherman, an ex-mobster, and a tiger. The bat bomb researchers risked life and limb to explore uncharted bat caves and ';recruit' thousands of bats to serve their country, certain that they could end the war with Japan. And they might havein their first airborne test, the bat bombers burned an entire brand-new military airfield to the ground. For everyone who relishes true tales of action and adventure, Bat Bomb is a must-read. Bat enthusiasts will also discover the beginnings of the scientific study of bats.
This book offers the first comprehensive introduction in either English or Spanish to private law in Spanish Latin America from the colonial period to the present.
A unique analysis of the stories, conversations, gossip, public speeches, and other narratives that shape community and identity among peasant women of the Bolivian highlands.
A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age.
A biography of Sam Houston that examines seriously his role as an American statesman.
How futuristic techno-erotic imagery in popular culture actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.
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