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Local Governments and Rural Development
Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru
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The Quiet Extinction
Stories of North America’s Rare and Threatened Plants
By Kara Rogers
The University of Arizona Press
The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent’s natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts underway to save them.
Shameful Victory
The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine
The University of Arizona Press
Enhancing our understanding of the Mexican American experience and urban renewal in LA, Shameful Victory focuses on Chavez Ravine and the eventual building of Dodger Stadium at the expense of the community. Author John H. M. Laslett shows how urban renewal led to the eviction of Mexican Americans and the introduction of the Dodgers, placing the Chavez Ravine affair into a broader social and historical context.
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
By Martha Few
The University of Arizona Press
For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.
Earth and Mars
A Reflection
The University of Arizona Press
Earth and Mars relates the life story of two planets, celestial siblings in space. The book is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images and essays celebrating the successful creation of our life-sustaining planet. A collection of simple and profoundly beautiful forms, Earth and Mars provides a context to appreciate the common forces responsible for these haunting shapes as well as the divergent paths that led to an Earth teeming with life-forms, while its sibling, Mars, is seemingly devoid of all life.
Capturing the Landscape of New Spain
Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition
The University of Arizona Press
Rebecca A. Carte sheds new light on sixteenth-century Spanish exploration and mining expansion in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.
In the Shadow of Cortés
Conversations Along the Route of Conquest
The University of Arizona Press
In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous civilizations of Mexico. Kathleen Ann Myers reveals how the symbolic geography of the conquest fuels a historical memory of colonialism that continues to shape lives today.
Between Two Fires
A Fire History of Contemporary America
The University of Arizona Press
Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of America’s fire revolution, a reaction to the decades-long policy of fire suppression touched off by the Great Fires of 1910. It is the real history of contemporary America’s management of one billion burnable acres. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of wildland fire management.
Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Chetro Ketl Collection
The University of Arizona Press
The Cochise Cultural Sequence in Southeastern Arizona
By E. B. Sayles
The University of Arizona Press
The Chinese of Early Tucson
Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project
The University of Arizona Press
The Asturian of Cantabria
Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain
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Sixteenth Century Maiolica Pottery in the Valley of Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory
The University of Arizona Press
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