Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West
This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the Westâ€"from California to Montana to New Mexicoâ€"serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.
Below Freezing
Elegy for the Melting Planet
Below Freezing is a unique assemblage of scientific fact, newspaper reports, and excerpts from novels, short stories, nonfiction, history, creative nonfiction, and poetry--a commonplace book for our era of altering climate.
A Persistent Revolution
History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.
The Handyman's Guide to End Times
Poems
In Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative.
Social Skins of the Head
Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes
The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this book, the first overarching coverage of an important subject.
No More Bingo, Comadre!
Stories
It takes all kinds to populate Northern New Mexico, and this book has every one: from gypsies and gamblers to ranchers and criminals.
The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
This book argues that ethnic and racial tension brought on by the fighting in the borderland made Anglo-Texans feel justified in their violent actions against Mexicans.
Sacred Smokes
This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians.
Gather the Night
Poems
These poems grieve for a world of the lost while extending solace to those who remain and remember.
New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences
Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs.
Cynical Citizenship
Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil's leftist hotspot, focuses on gender, politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) was in power.
Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana
These letters, published in Spanish in 2010 and now translated for the first time into English, provide insight into her work as a poet and illuminate her perspectives on politics, especially war and human rights.
Murder in Mérida, 1792
Violence, Factions, and the Law
This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.
Fictions of Western American Domesticity
Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950
This work 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?
Colonial New Mexican Families
Community, Church, and State, 1692–1800
In this book Suzanne M. Stamatov skillfully relies on both ecclesiastical and civil records to discover how families formed and endured during this period of contention in the eighteenth century.
The Films of Clint Eastwood
Critical Perspectives
As a collection, these essays show that none of these themes account for Eastwood's entire vision, which is multifaceted and often contradictory, dramatizing complex issues in powerful, character-driven narratives.
Banana Cowboys
The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
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.
Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime
This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics.
Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo
The INI’s Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project
This book traces how indigenista innovation gave way to stagnation as local opposition, shifting national priorities, and waning financial support took their toll.
Island, River, and Field
Landscape Archaeology in the Llanos de Mojos
John H. Walker's innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon examines the agricultural landscape and analyzes the earthworks from an archaeological perspective.