An oral history of a prominent Mexican American scholar.

This highly innovative book decodes the process through which the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire occurred.

A noted scholar of archaeoastronomy examines the the Nasca Lines, giant drawings of animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru.

Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book that the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be--open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.

A study of workers' lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s, showing how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business.

This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from "others."

To help both beginning and advanced birders make the most of their visits to the United States's northwestern national parks, Roland Wauer has written this finding guide, which introduces the most common birds and the most likely places to see them.

A comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of Midwestern Mexican American communities.

How California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano p

An account of the people and poliics of Texas during the 1820s.

How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.

A colonial Spanish bishop's project to evangelize Mexico.

This pathfinding book shows how Mexicans from 1910 through the 1950s interpreted the revolution, tried to make sense of it, and, through collective memory, myth-making, and history writing, invented an idea called "la Revolución."

How the ruling elite of ancient Rome sought -- and often failed -- to eradicate the memory of their deceased opponents.

How economic development affects women's businesses in Mesoamerica.

The memoir of a Chilean translator and journalist.

The first major study of the relationship between visual art and film in China and Japan.

The first complete record of the women who served in the Texas Legislature in the twentieth century.

The first in-depth history of the Chicano community’s struggle for inclusion in the political life of San Antonio during the years 1951 to 1991, drawn from interviews with key participants as well as archival research.