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Gamboa's World

Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain

University of New Mexico Press

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).

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From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms

Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland Marsh

UBC Press

From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms reveals how some of the most profitable farmland in Canada has been shaped, and ultimately imperilled, by liberal notions of progress and nature.

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Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard

Folklore and Culture in Jamaica

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of two sisters’ writings that emphasizes Jamaica from a local perspective

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El feliz ingenio neomexicano

Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa

University of New Mexico Press

El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author.

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Curious about George

Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters

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Chasing Dichos through Chimayó

University of New Mexico Press

In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayó Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.

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Against the Tides

Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands

UBC Press

Against the Tides tells the compelling story of the rehabilitation of the Maritime marshlands, a project that reshaped not only the landscape of the Bay of Fundy region but the communities that depended on it.

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Adjusting the Lens

Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage

UBC Press

Adjusting the Lens explores and celebrates decolonizing strategies and practices that confront the ways the photographic record of Indigenous peoples has been shaped by the colonial imagination.

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A Liberal-Labour Lady

The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith

UBC Press

This authoritative biography of Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) – British Columbia’s first female MLA, the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister, and a BC suffragist – recovers from obscurity an audacious but imperfect champion in the struggle for greater democracy in early twentieth-century Canada.

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Whither College Sports

Amateurism, Athlete Safety, and Academic Integrity

Rutgers University Press

This book lays out the starkly different paths that college sports reform can follow and what the ramifications will be on the athletes and on the institutions in which they are enrolled.
 

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White Light

The Poetry of Alberto Blanco

Bucknell University Press

White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco explores the interplay of complementary images and concepts in A la luz de siempre, the Mexican writer and visual artist's vast trilogy of poems from 1979-2018. By focusing on listening and seeing, Blanco's highly interdisciplinary poetry transforms his inspirations into the inspiration of his readers.

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Village Ties

Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh

Rutgers University Press

Village Ties argues that grassroots women’s mobilization programs can empower poor women to challenge oppressive informal institutions – the rules of the game – that govern relationships between actors in the rural global South. By exploring the activities of women who belong to Polli Shomaj, an initiative of the development organization BRAC, Village Ties challenges stereotypes of poor Muslim women as backward, subservient, oppressed, and in need of saving.

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Two Women

A Novel

Bucknell University Press

The first openly feminist novel published in Spanish, Two Women tells the riveting tale of a tumultuous love triangle among a brilliant, young, widowed countess, her inexperienced lover, and his pure and virtuous wife. This first English translation captures the lyrical romanticism of the novel’s prose and includes a scholarly introduction to the author and her work.

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Soccer in Mind

A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game

Rutgers University Press

Soccer in Mind provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, viewing it from sociological, psychological, anthropological, and economic angles. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, this book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game.

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Near Human

Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging

Rutgers University Press

Near Human is an ethnography of research piglets in biomedical experiments and premature human infants in clinical care in Denmark. Drawing on fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen redirects the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human and to forge a nation.

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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

Bucknell University Press

This collection of essays brings together different critical perspectives on play in eighteenth-century France. From dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries to the ludic nature of narrative and theatrical performance, this volume offers a new outlook on how play was used to represent and reimagine the world.

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Comics and the Origins of Manga

A Revisionist History

Rutgers University Press

Comics and the Origins of Manga challenges the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from traditional Japanese art, and reveals how Japanese cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s instead developed modern manga out of translations of foreign comic strips like Bringing Up Father, Happy Hooligan, and Felix the Cat.

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"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana

The Origins of an Iconic Image

University of Massachusetts Press
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Delivering Cuba Through the Mail

Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes

University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
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Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners

University of Florida Press

This volume offers a wealth of information and examples for those looking to help bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable.

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The Mark of Rebels

Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence

University of Alabama Press

Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence

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The Florida Project

University of Texas Press

An in-depth look at the production of the 2017 film The Florida Project and the unique filmmaking style of its director, Sean Baker.

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Suburban Dreams

Imagining and Building the Good Life

University of Alabama Press

Explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the “good life”

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Genius Belabored

Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis

University of Alabama Press

The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever

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Downtown Juárez

Underworlds of Violence and Abuse

University of Texas Press

An intimate look at the normalization of violence in the lives of sex workers, drug dealers, barflies, and drug addicts in downtown Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

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Discovering Mars

A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet

The University of Arizona Press

A leading historian of astronomy and a leading planetary scientist who works at the forefront of space exploration provide a comprehensive history of the solar system’s most alluring planet beyond Earth. William Sheehan and Jim Bell chronicle how ancient watchers of the skies attended to Mars’s red color and baffling movements, how three and a half centuries of telescopic observations added vistas and controversies around possible seas and continents and canals, and how the current era of exploration by flyby, orbiter, lander, and rover spacecraft have conjured for us the reality of a world of towering shield volcanoes, vast canyons, ancient dry riverbeds—and even possible evidence of past life. A unique collaboration between two authors on the forefront of Mars explorations, past and future, Discovering Mars provides an ambitious, detailed, and evocative account of humanity’s enduring fascination with the Red Planet.

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Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

Edited by Max Krochmal and Todd Moye
University of Texas Press

Drawing on hundreds of new interviews from grassroots activists in every corner of Texas, Civil Rights in Black and Brown tells the stories of the state’s intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggles.

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The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual

University Press of Colorado

This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.

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Becoming Colorado

The Centennial State in 100 Objects

University Press of Colorado

In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.

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Worlds beyond My Window

The Life and Work of Gertrude McCarty Smith

Edited by Rich Burlingham; Foreword by Tommy King
University Press of Mississippi

A kaleidoscope of creativity explodes on the page from one of the South’s most underappreciated artists

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Resisting Garbage

The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities

University of Texas Press

Resisting Garbage presents an empirically grounded explanation for what meaningful change in waste management could look like and why that change is so difficult.

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Natural Landmarks of Arizona

The University of Arizona Press

Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of an author who has called Arizona home for most of his life. In David Yetman’s new book, he shows us how Arizona’s most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light on more recent histories of these landmarks as well.

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The Jazz Masters

Setting the Record Straight

University Press of Mississippi

An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz

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The Jazz Masters

Setting the Record Straight

University Press of Mississippi

An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz

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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

University Press of Colorado
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Songs of Earth

Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music

By Anna L. Wood; Foreword by Robert Garfias; Introduction by Victor Grauer
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/The Association for Cultural Equity

An important update of Alan Lomax’s standard-setting Cantometrics system, the first to characterize and classify the mighty instrument of the human voice

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Sacred City

University of New Mexico Press

Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country.

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Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South

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Queerly Centered

LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace

Utah State University Press

Queerly Centered explores writing center administration and queer identity, showcasing nuanced orientations to LGBTQA labor undertaken but not previously acknowledged or documented in the field’s research.

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