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Explores the processes of nationalism and national identity formation in the half century that followed the War of the Pacific. This book considers the national projects of Peru and Chile in the disputed territories and shows how these efforts were received among the diverse social strata of the region.

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Gives voice to abused children, murdered women, research animals, war veterans, and even metronomes and lampshades. In poems inspired by Ovid, Tina Carlson explores the roots of voicelessness and journeys into metamorphosis, granting speech to those ignored or victimized and thereby allowing them to provide witness to their own lives.

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When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of the fifth edition focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier.

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Readers searching for courage and adventure will find just that and more in the engaging prose of Jack Schaefer in this vintage collection of Western vignettes. Exploring varied tales of life in the West, Schaefer shares the stories of exceptional characters conflicted with humanity as they navigate the challenges and opportunities that can only be found on the frontier.

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This captivating study tells Mexico's best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic centre and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.

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E.A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor Patrocino Barela, but the conversations he imagines with this gifted Taos artist (ca. 1900-1964) are uncannily vivid and persuasive.

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The first book to explore the strange, exciting, and unknown world of unidentified aerial phenomena for kids. UFOhs! cuts through speculation and pseudo-science to describe real phenomena as observed and documented by pilots, ship captains, scientists, and ordinary men, women, and children from around the world.

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In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry. Williams was intrigued enough to write back. Their intense epistolary relationship, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.

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Offers the most detailed and engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture.

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Explores Reies Lopez Tijerina’s religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics.

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From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not only for its assemblage of garlic and farming lore but for what it tells us about how to live a satisfying life. This beloved book, first published in 1992, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.

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The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century - the white ""banana cowboy"" pushing the edges of a tropical frontier - was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.

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Offers a compelling examination of how historians in Spain and the Americas have come to understand and write about the Spanish colonial past and its meanings for national presents. The eight essays situate historians' writings within the context of their day, suggesting how “history” has -- perhaps more often than not -- responded to present-day needs, agendas, and expectations.

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Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile's southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía - because of its status as a separate nation-state - became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic.

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These personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the Near Southwest, a bio-region that embraces New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and slices of Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

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Discussing 'curanderismo' and the practice of herbalists, this book focuses on individual healers and their procedures and traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. The product of centuries of experience in Mexico, influenced by the Moors, Judeo-Christians, and Aztecs, this work includes use of items such as lemon and objects such as keys.

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Despite rapidly changing social and economic conditions worldwide, patriarchal practices remain remarkably widespread and persistent. Contributors to this volume draw on field research and in-depth qualitative data from different parts of the world to explore the reasons for women's varied psychological responses to patriarchy.

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With decades of experience as a gala event planner, award-winning director and producer Ron Miziker presents the ultimate guide to planning and executing every special event in this one-of-a-kind guidebook. For professionals and beginners alike, it is designed to be a quick reference for ensuring that any exciting, educational, or entertaining event comes together on time and within budget.

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Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world - in contexts ranging from historic neighbourhoods to contemporary national borders.

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New Mexico native and travel and food writer Carolyn Graham goes beyond the standard restaurant guide to detail her personal experiences travelling and eating around the state. The result is a distinctive road map of flavours, ingredients, and fusions that bring these New Mexico food trails to life.

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Father Gregory J Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. This title presents the story of Boyle's unconventional ministry and its extraordinary successes.

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Quinones merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in his search for an authentic modern Mexico. He finds it in part in emigrants, people who use wits and imagination to strike out on their own. In poignant stories from north of the border Quinones shows how another Mexico is reinventing itself in America today. But most of his stories are from deep inside Mexico itself.

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Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923) was one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century. This biography by an authority on Southwest Indian history tells a dramatic story that sheds light both on Montezuma's career and on the movements he influenced.

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As this book opens, Archilde Leon has just returned from the big city to his father's ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. The story that unfolds captures the intense and varied conflicts that already characterised reservation life in 1936, when this remarkable novel was first published.

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Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, critic and columnist when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan’s friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where their college road trip had come to a crashing halt.

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By tracing the impulses of punk rock, trash film, and camp through poetry, Drew Gardner sheds light on a literary tendency that has been part of poetry’s DNA all along: uncovering the poetic values hidden in unpoetic things.

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This collection of essays features twelve “heroes” from the American West. Schaefer profiles pioneers of the West - the doctors, explorers, and cowboys who settled the challenging landscape and built communities in the Old West. These unsung champions highlight the unglorified work of the West that was achieved without violence and gunslinging.

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Introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life.

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Analyses Spanish rule and Catholic practice from the consolidation of Spanish control in the Americas in the sixteenth century to the loss of these colonies in the nineteenth century by following the life and afterlife of an accidental martyr, San Felipe de Jesus.

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Examines the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology. Contributors explore the interactions between anthropology and design through a cross-disciplinary approach centred around the design-and-anthropology relationship.

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The first biography of Pablo Abeita, a man considered the most important Native leader in the American Southwest in his day. Abeita’s story is one of a people still living on their ancestral homelands, struggling to protect their land and water, and ultimately thriving as a modern pueblo.

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Mary Zeiss Stange's story of running a bison ranch with her husband in southeastern Montana is a narrative of survival in a landscape and a society at once harsh and alluring. Less memoir than deep history of people and place, these vivid, naturalistic tales examine the complex relationships that comprise life in the rural West today.

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