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Explores the processes by which boxing - once considered an outlandish purveyor of low culture - evolved in Cuba into a nationalized pillar of popular culture, a point of pride that transcends gender, race, and class.

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Max Evans, one of Sam Peckinpah’s best friends, experienced the director’s mercurial character and personal demons firsthand. In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah’s abusive behaviour.

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In January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. In response, the army and paramilitary killed thousands of citizens, most of them innocent of any involvement in the rebellion. This work examines national and international historical memories of these events and the factors that determined those memories.

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Examines Latin American leadership and experiences in the League of Nations. Using research in frequently overlooked collections, Beyond Geopolitics makes groundbreaking contributions to the study of Latin American international relations, the history of the League of Nations, and the broader story of cooperation across borders.

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Containing more than three hundred photographs, this is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.

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The memoir is not the story of what you know, it's the story of how you learned it. Memory into Memoir provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle the unruly past onto the page. In thirteen chapters, Laura Kalpakian provides tools to develop narrative form, scenic depiction, character development, and dialogue.

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Argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life. While contestation and seditious ideas had always been present in the region, never before had local regimes been forced to consider radical dissension as an unavoidable dimension of politics.

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Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico. This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.

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Tells the story of how the African American boxer Jack Johnson - the bombastic and larger-than-life reigning world heavyweight champion - met Jim Flynn on the fourth of July in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

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An acclaimed first novel by two award-winning New Mexico writers, Sunlight and Shadow is a story of family, friendship, and what it really means to have hope. “Filled with emotion. A real winner of a story.”—Tony Hillerman

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Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

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In villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain’s New World empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattered. In this book Suzanne Stamatov skilfully relies on both ecclesiastical and civil records to discover how families formed and endured during this period of contention in the eighteenth century.

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With a focus on Fort Davis, Wilkie brings attention to the Black enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. She explores the complexities of post life, racialized relationships, Black masculinity, and citizenship while also exposing the structures and practices of military life that successfully obscured these men’s stories for so long.

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Revisits the activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and examines how far the inclusion of career women in the Park Service has progressed. This work discusses how staff can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. This reality and the acceptance of women as leaders has affected Park Service culture.

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Examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the much more familiar, triumphalist narrative of Spanish daring, resilience and victory embodied in the oft-told tale of the conquest of central Mexico.

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Brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender. Archaeologists have long used skeletal remains to identify gender. As the contributors to this volume reveal, combining skeletal data with contextual information can provide a richer understanding of life in the past.

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Women are noticeably marginalized from the Latin American film industry, with lower budgets and inadequate distribution, and they often rely on their creativity to make more interesting films. This book highlights the voices and stories of some of these directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.

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For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.

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Inspired by Chief Joseph's statement that “the Earth and myself are of one mind”, Dunsmore studies the works of the major Native writers and their connection with the natural world.

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Drawing on over fifty years of research and data collected by field-school students, Hawkins argues that two factors - cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion - explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.

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Deliberately provocative, this book examines Aguirre, a symbol of Basque fury and rampage, arguing that Aguirre's historical representation as a one-dimensional madman deserves revisiting.

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Analyses US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. The author addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure.

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If history books obscure the important roles played by women of European origin in the United States, how much more invisible are Hispanic women? In correcting this omission, Hedda Garza documents and discusses the major contributions to the US's social and political mosaic for over 150 years by women leaders, organisers, and activists from diverse Hispanic backgrounds.

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The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882-1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and artistic media. This book positions her as a theorist of the avant-garde and of what it means to be an artist.

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When Water Monster caused the Great Flood, the thirty-two clans of the First People left their pleasant lands and migrated to the present world through an enormous hollow reed. In this marvellous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many tales she heard during long winter evenings at Blue Mesa.

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Maria of Agreda's exceptional attributes spread from her convent in seventeenth-century Agreda (Spain) to the court in Madrid and beyond. Without leaving her village, the abbess impacted the kingdom, her church, and the New World. This biography integrates autobiographical, historical, and literary sources published by and about Maria of Agreda.

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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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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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