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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Lines in the Sand Nationalism and Identity on the PeruvianChilean Frontier
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.
£25.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery
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.
£18.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast
£21.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Westward Expansion
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.
£28.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Pioneers
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.
£21.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Mexico in the Time of Cholera
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.
£29.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Astonishing Light Conversations I Never Had with Patroci241o Barela
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.
£17.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Struggle for Natural Resources Findings from Bolivian History
£81.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Indian Frontier 17631846
£24.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Zia Summer
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather Firearms in the Nineteenth Century American West
£33.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Arizona National Parks and Monuments Scenic Wonders and Cultural Treasures of the Grand Canyon State
£18.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico UFOhs Mysteries in the Sky
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.
£17.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Why Should I Write a Poem Now The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams 19491958
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.
£56.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico High Noon in Lincoln
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.
£20.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico New Mexicos Moses Reies L243pez Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
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.
£33.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico A Garlic Testament Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
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.
£16.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Banana Cowboys The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
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.
£56.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Interpreting Spanish Colonialism Empires Nations and Legends
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.
£29.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Painting the Cosmos Art and Iconography of the Ceramics of Ancient Panama
£88.36
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Contested Nation The Mapuche Bandits and State Formation in NineteenthCentury Chile
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.
£56.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Horizontal Yellow Nature and History in the Near Southwest
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.
£25.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico I Am of the Tribe of Judah Poems from Jewish Latin America
£23.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Wonders of Nuclear Fusion Creating an Ultimate Energy Source
£29.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Healing with Herbs and Rituals A Mexican Tradition
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.
£16.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico El Mir243n Cave Cantabrian Spain The Site and Its Holocene Archaeological Record
£64.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Psychology of Women under Patriarchy
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.
£33.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Mizikers Complete Event Planners Handbook Tips Terminology and Techniques for Success
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.
£29.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Walling In and Walling Out Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us
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.
£33.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico New Mexico Food Trails A Road Trippers Guide to Hot Chile Cold Brews and Classic Dishes from the Land of Enchantment
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.
£18.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico GDog and the Homeboys Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
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.
£21.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Shoshoneans The People of the BasinPlateau
£29.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico True Tales from Another Mexico The Lynch Mob the Popsicle Kings Chalino and the Bronx
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.
£23.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians
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.
£32.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Surrounded
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.
£21.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Gamboas World Justice Silver Mining and Imperial Reform in New Spain
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.
£25.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Sweeney
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.
£18.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Human Nature Biology Culture and Environmental History
£21.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Monuments of Piedras Negras an Ancient Maya City
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.
£42.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Battle of Glorieta Pass PA A Gettysburg in the West March 2628 1862
£21.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Juan Dom237nguez de Mendoza Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest 16271693
Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony. This book recognises the career of Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, a soldier-colonist who was as instrumental as any governor or friar in shaping Hispano-Indian society in New Mexico.
£33.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Chasing the Santa Fe Ring Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico
Anyone who has even a casual acquaintance with the history of New Mexico in the nineteenth century has heard of the Santa Fe Ring - seekers of power and wealth in the post-Civil War period famous for public corruption and for dispossessing landholders. David Caffey looks beyond myth and symbol to explore its history.
£28.70
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The SpaceAge Presidency of John F. Kennedy A Rare Photographic History
Captures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the US's space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The stunning collection of history and photographs crafted by authors John Bisney and J.L. Pickering illustrates Kennedy's close association with the race to space during his time in office.
£47.66
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Embracing Autonomy Latin AmericanUS Relations in the TwentyFirst Century
£79.00
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Dreams Unreal The Genesis of the Psychedelic Rock Poster
£33.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Best Peace Fiction A Social Justice Anthology
Not a utopian project, this book asks whether literature has a role in furthering the ongoing pursuit of peace and justice for all. While exploring tragedy, these stories also offer hope for healing, illuminating how people can move forward from the moments when their lives change and how they can regain and reshape safe spaces to find solace.
£21.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Storytelling in Yellowstone Horse and Buggy Tour Guides
Former Yellowstone National Park historian, Lee Whittlesey devoted years of research to these pre-1920 stories told by the Park's ‘tour guides’, or interpreters. He also devotes chapters to the first two National Park interpreters, Philetus ‘Windy’ Norris and G. L. Henderson.
£16.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Navajo Language
£104.00