Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America
The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
Sandia
Seasons of a Mountain
This portrait of Sandia, the mountain backdrop that dwarfs Albuquerque's sprawl, offers a sense of place through the eyes of a photographer and the words of a writer.
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.
The Writer's Portable Mentor
A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition
Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought.
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.