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In the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army's campaigns against them in the last century. These oral histories offer new versions of events previously known only through descriptions left by non-Indians.

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The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior Land) is North America's oldest and longest (1500 miles) road, which connects Mexico City with Santa Fe, New Mexico. This guidebook provides useful commentary, along with sixty maps, on the entire Camino as it winds its way from New Mexico through Mexico, ending in Mexico City.

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Focuses on the life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history. Through We'wha's exceptional life, Will Roscoe creates a vivid picture of an alternative gender role whose history has been hidden and almost forgotten.

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Jewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in the new Jewish Latin America series.

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Problematizes ‘North America’ as an important region in its own right, breaking with the area-studies convention that divides the Global North and Global South portions of the Western Hemisphere at the US-Mexican border.

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On March 4, 1928, 199 men lined up in Los Angeles, California, to participate in a 3,400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Bunion Derby, as the press dubbed the event, was the brainchild of sports promoter Charles C Pyle. He promised a $25,000 grand prize and claimed the competition would immortalize US Highway Route 66.

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Brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of Argentina’s Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) and its legacies. The collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights.

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A compilation of a unique history of the invention of laser guide stars and other contributions to adaptive optics made by the Department of Defense.

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Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are highly dependent on others and who learn how to be human while their brains are experiencing growth unlike that seen in other primates.

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Investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy.

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Mormons first came to Mexico as soldiers during the Mexican-American War and later as missionaries, refugees, and settlers. Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947. Representing a broad variety of scholarship from Mexican, US, and Mormon historical studies, the volume offers a survey of religious pluralism in Mexico.

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One of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Richard Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. This riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis's life story, concentrating on his reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.

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First published in 1990, this volume collects twenty-six of Aldo Leopold's little-known essays and articles published between 1915 and 1948. Hitherto unavailable to the general public, these pieces show that Leopold was not born an ecologist. On a daily basis, the young forester grappled with concrete ecological problems and groped for practical solutions.

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This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since the publication of Washington Matthew's Navaho Legends in 1897. Paul G Zolbrod's new translation attempts to render the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page.

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Kate Wingert-Playdon’s narrative of the restoration of San Esteban del Rey Mission and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico’s most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.

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