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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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Divided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area.

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Challenges many widely held notions about encounters between European and native peoples. Whereas many late twentieth century scholars blamed the catastrophic decline of post-conquest native populations on the introduction of previously unknown infections from the Old World, Alchon argues that the experiences of native peoples in the New World closely resembled those of other human populations.

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups - Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. In this study, Yetman examines seven separate instances of conflict, each of which reveals a different perspective on this complicated world.

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The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith’s role as a modernist in addition to her status as a well-known Native American artist. With close readings of Smith’s work, Carolyn Kastner shows how Smith simultaneously contributes to and critiques American art and its history.

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Both exhilarating and punishing, Send A Runner tells the story of a Navajo family using the power of running to honour their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened. From these forces, they might also seek the vision of how the Dine - their people - will have a future.

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This exploration of Iberian, Latin American, and US-Hispanic representations of Christ focuses on outliers in art, literature, and theology: Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, Argentine writer Jorge Borges, Spanish existentialist Miguel de Unamuno, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos.

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A hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author’s stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family’s experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness.

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Drawing on forty years as a journalist with training in water law and economics, Anne MacKinnon paints a lively picture of the arcane twists in the notable record of water law in Wyoming. She maintains that states should examine how local people control water and that states must draw on historical understandings of water as a public resource.

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A unique compendium, drawing on history and mythology, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the extraordinary story of the grain that built the New World. Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it.

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Molas, the distinctive blouses made and worn by Kuna women in Panama, are collected by thousands of enthusiasts as well as by anthropological museums all over the world. This book, based on original research, explores the origin of the mola in the early twentieth century, how it became part of the everyday dress of Kuna women, and its role in creating Kuna identity.

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Represents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish and in English, painstakingly translated and annotated by Phillip B. Gonzales.

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Distinguished historian Richard Etulain brings together a selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography, revealing summaries of regional literature, and discussions of western stories yet to be told.

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The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez’s intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighbourhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul. As the characters navigate borders and border crossings they attempt to make sense of their increasingly complex memories and relationships.

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Focuses on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the ""Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No 2"". This work features the mapa's rare images - including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly quarter-size facsimile - accompanied by fifteen illustrated essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, and its complex narrative.

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Maddie and Grace meet in an adolescent psychiatric unit after each has committed desperate self-injurious acts in response to years of abuse, neglect, and chaos. Together they navigate the surreal world of their fellow patients while staff provide nurturance and guidance to support their healing journeys.

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In this insightful and bittersweet love story, masterful storyteller John Nichols brings to life northern New Mexico and three unforgettable characters.

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One of the first artists to visit the Mayan ruins at Palenque after Mexican independence, Jean-Frederic Waldeck has long been dismissed as unreliable, his drawings of pre-Columbian art marred by his excessive interest in European styles of beauty. This title takes a fresh look at Waldeck's entire output.

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Examines the sobering realities associated with the participation of ordinary Americans in the development of the US's nuclear weapons arsenal. Len Ackland skilfully weaves together the experiences of individuals with clear explanations of nuclear weapons technology, the dangers posed by plutonium and radiation, and the fight between government agencies over environmental degradation.

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By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World’s Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest.

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Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. It also provides information on the eight species that have been reported but rarely seen in North America.

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An autobiographical ethnography that consists of twenty-six life episodes that chronicle Manuel Pe±a's transformative journey from an impoverished migrant worker to a career in academia. Pe±a reflects on a wide range of issues arising from the historically-marginalized condition of Mexicans and other Latinos in the United States.

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Traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their religious practices, and their adventures in New Spain until one by one they were put to flight or indicted by the Inquisition.

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Trees are guiding symbols for Yelizaveta P. Renfro in her life and in her work. Combining memoir and nature writing, this book comprises nine essays that represent different seasons and slices of time, not unlike the rings of a tree. No two rings are alike, but each accretes to the next, creating, section by section, a life.

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Focusing on the time period from the intensification of slave importation in 1580 to 1700, this work explores how Afro-Mexicans worked within the limitations imposed on them by the Church and the Spanish Crown in order to develop relationships with peers and superiors, defend themselves against unjust treatment, make money, and gain prestige.

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During the early 1880s, a wave of peasant unrest swept the mountainous Huasteca region of northeastern Mexico. This account traces the material and ideological roots of the rebellion to nineteenth-century liberal policies of land privatisation and to the growth of a radical anarchocommunist agrarian consciousness.

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Biosphere rises from southern Arizona's high desert like a bizarre hybrid spaceship and greenhouse. Packed with more than 3,800 carefully selected plant, animal, and insect species, this mega-terrarium is one of the world's most biodiverse, lush, and artificial wildernesses.

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In this study, profiles of fourteen notable, complex characters provide a unique view into New Mexico's development from prehistoric times to the present. Here are lives of men and women that illustrate memorable events. By emphasising the links between New Mexicans and their times, this book makes history a personal story of drama and pathos played out within a larger context of pivotal events.

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In this enthralling memoir we follow Max Evans and Sam Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah’s abusive behavior - sometimes directed at Evans himself. Evans’s stories provide a uniquely intimate look at Peckinpah, their famous friends, and the business of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Provides a polychromatic exposition of New Mexico's traditional roadside memorials, descansos, as an art form. This work aims to capture the artistic attributes of these decorative crosses while preserving their religious and cultural integrity.

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Examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794). Gamboa was both a representative of legal professionals in the Spanish world and a central protagonist in major legal controversies in Mexico.

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This quixotic tale of Sweeney's journey of survival and self-discovery offers a wry glimpse of the oddities and opportunities of small-town life, featuring aliens, nudists, naked bull riders, Druids, phony Indians, real Indians, and above all, Sweeney's crazy citizens.

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Patronized by royalty between the sixth and eighth centuries, the monuments of Guatemala's ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras were carved by sculptors with remarkable skills and virtuosity. This title discusses the known monuments of the city sequentially by reigns.

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