Large format photographs help define Cuba as seen through this photographer's lens over a four-year period. Eloquent essays accompany the images.

A sweeping history of the cultural clashes between Indians and the British, Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. A story of the contest for land and power across multiple and simultaneous frontiers.

An ancient Cherokee legend, retold with lively dialogue and intriguing illustrations.

The sixth and final volume of the journals of don Diego de Vargas.

Using previously unpublished material, this book presents Navajo perspectives on key issues of land, community, education, rights, government, and identity.

The first full ethnohistory of American Indian responses to, and participation in, World War II; beginning with the drift toward war in the 1930s, including their reactions to propaganda campaigns directed at them by Nazi sympathizers.

Explores the dramatic colonial history of Ecuador and southern Colombia, fleshing out everyday life and individual exploits.

Combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoramic view of New Mexico's fascinating past.

A trip to the Yucatan in your own kitchen.

Comprehensive history of crypto-Jewish beliefs and social customs.

A chilling, fast-moving study of the nuclear weapons plant in the Denver suburbs, told through the experiences of managers, workers, activists, and neighbors who were all so deeply affected by the hazardous plant.

How to control household pests in a more environmentally friendly way.

This volume carefully shows how Mexico institutionalized some revolutionary promises and suffered the shattering loss of others.

This book will appeal to anyone interested in knowing more about how a fascinating mix of people of various cultures have molded New Mexico's history.

Presents the child abuse investigation referral in a bilingual format, phrase by phrase directly as it occurs, to make it more accessible to both social worker and family.

A rare collection of art and literature perfectly suited for the artist, traveler, or anyone enchanted by the Southwest.

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic photographic portrayal of the major pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.

Covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis.

Newly-available records from the Civil War in the Southwest, drawn from both Union and Confederate sources, give a much-improved understanding of that period through the words of those who shaped and participated in events at that time.

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.

The vivid life story of a Maya Indian during the last two tumultuous decades in Guatemala.

Sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion.

Keen observation and astute interviews lead journalist Sam Quinones on the quest to find the authentic modern Mexico--both in Mexico and East L.A., and other parts of the U.S.

A readable, captivating social history centered on the essence of Santa Fe--the lives of its Hispano and Anglo residents.

Documents and discusses the major contributions to this country's social and political mosaic for over 150 years by women leaders, organizers, and activists from diverse Hispanic backgrounds.

To grow up as a Mexican-American Methodist in a small town in south central Texas in the 1940s and 1950s was to be a minority within a minority. This memoir is the story of a man who became bilingual, bicultural, and successful, but it is also a tribute to the traditions in which he grew up.

Examines the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in 1532 and how European and indigenous life ways became intertwined, producing a new and constantly evolving hybrid colonial order in the Andes.

Indicted by the Inquisition and burned at the stake in 1596 at the age of thirty, Luis left valuable literary documents--his memoirs, his last will and testament, and his letters to his mother and sisters in the inquisitorial prison.

Transforms New Mexico's colonial history into an engaging story of real people and the real events that shaped their lives.

An exciting collection of new essays on the work of the outstanding American Indian woman writer.

A novel about thirteen women and their simultaneous voyage to the bridge on the Mexico/U.S. border the day the river mysteriously turns red.

This beautifully illustrated overview of the folk arts of New Mexico from the sixteenth century to the present covers both religious and secular arts including festivals, music, dance, and the visual arts.

Proposes a long sought solution to the mystery of the collapse of the Maya civilization: a series of severe droughts during the ninth and tenth centuries which brought famine, thirst, and death to the Maya lowlands.

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

Takes us into the heart of one Zuni family and allows us to witness the world through its members' eyes.

A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.

A study of the shift in American Indian and white relations as both Presidents favored new policies that would have fostered the survival of American Indian cultures and heritages, yet they faced opposition from western senators who insisted on carrying out the so-called termination policies.

Presents a new agenda for study of the strikingly diverse shrub and grassland ecosystems of the U.S./Mexico border.

"A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey

Translated from her own words, this story of a Navajo woman who lived for more than 102 years is a vivid account of traditional lifeways in a harsh and challenging environment.