Gamboa's World
Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain
Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).
From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms
Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland Marsh
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.
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard
Folklore and Culture in Jamaica
An exploration of two sisters’ writings that emphasizes Jamaica from a local perspective
El feliz ingenio neomexicano
Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa
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.
Curious about George
Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism
The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters
Chasing Dichos through Chimayó
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.
Against the Tides
Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands
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.
Adjusting the Lens
Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage
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.
A Liberal-Labour Lady
The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
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.
Whither College Sports
Amateurism, Athlete Safety, and Academic Integrity
White Light
The Poetry of Alberto Blanco
Village Ties
Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh
Two Women
A Novel
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.
Soccer in Mind
A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game
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.
Near Human
Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging
Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
Comics and the Origins of Manga
A Revisionist History
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.
"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana
The Origins of an Iconic Image
Delivering Cuba Through the Mail
Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes
Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners
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.
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
The Florida Project
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
Genius Belabored
Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis
Downtown Juárez
Underworlds of Violence and Abuse
Discovering Mars
A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet
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.
Civil Rights in Black and Brown
Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas
The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual
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.
Becoming Colorado
The Centennial State in 100 Objects
In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.
Worlds beyond My Window
The Life and Work of Gertrude McCarty Smith
A kaleidoscope of creativity explodes on the page from one of the South’s most underappreciated artists
Resisting Garbage
The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities
Natural Landmarks of Arizona
The Jazz Masters
Setting the Record Straight
An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz
The Jazz Masters
Setting the Record Straight
An unprecedented jam session on memories and music from the best in jazz
The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya
Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Songs of Earth
Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music
An important update of Alan Lomax’s standard-setting Cantometrics system, the first to characterize and classify the mighty instrument of the human voice
Sacred City
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.
Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric
A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South
Queerly Centered
LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace
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.