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Shameful Victory
The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine
The University of Arizona Press
Enhancing our understanding of the Mexican American experience and urban renewal in LA, Shameful Victory focuses on Chavez Ravine and the eventual building of Dodger Stadium at the expense of the community. Author John H. M. Laslett shows how urban renewal led to the eviction of Mexican Americans and the introduction of the Dodgers, placing the Chavez Ravine affair into a broader social and historical context.
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
By Martha Few
The University of Arizona Press
For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.
Earth and Mars
A Reflection
The University of Arizona Press
Earth and Mars relates the life story of two planets, celestial siblings in space. The book is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images and essays celebrating the successful creation of our life-sustaining planet. A collection of simple and profoundly beautiful forms, Earth and Mars provides a context to appreciate the common forces responsible for these haunting shapes as well as the divergent paths that led to an Earth teeming with life-forms, while its sibling, Mars, is seemingly devoid of all life.
Capturing the Landscape of New Spain
Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition
The University of Arizona Press
Rebecca A. Carte sheds new light on sixteenth-century Spanish exploration and mining expansion in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.
In the Shadow of Cortés
Conversations Along the Route of Conquest
The University of Arizona Press
In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous civilizations of Mexico. Kathleen Ann Myers reveals how the symbolic geography of the conquest fuels a historical memory of colonialism that continues to shape lives today.
Between Two Fires
A Fire History of Contemporary America
The University of Arizona Press
Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of America’s fire revolution, a reaction to the decades-long policy of fire suppression touched off by the Great Fires of 1910. It is the real history of contemporary America’s management of one billion burnable acres. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of wildland fire management.
Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Chetro Ketl Collection
The University of Arizona Press
The Cochise Cultural Sequence in Southeastern Arizona
By E. B. Sayles
The University of Arizona Press
The Chinese of Early Tucson
Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project
The University of Arizona Press
The Asturian of Cantabria
Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Sixteenth Century Maiolica Pottery in the Valley of Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory
The University of Arizona Press
Salvage Archaeology in Painted Rocks Reservoir, Western Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico
Archaeological Confirmations of Early Spanish Reports
The University of Arizona Press
Population, Contact, and Climate in the New Mexican Pueblos
The University of Arizona Press
Multidisciplinary Research at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
This volume presents the results of research from the University of Arizona’s archaeological field school at Grasshopper Pueblo in Arizona. Contributors consider issues of environmental and climactic change; regional and interregional economics; and subsistence change.
Mexican Macaws
Comparative Osteology and Survey of Remains from the Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Lithic Analysis and Cultural Inference
A Paleo-Indian Case
The University of Arizona Press
Irrigation's Impact on Society
Edited by Theodore E. Downing and McGuire Gibson
The University of Arizona Press
Indian Assimilation in the Franciscan Area of Nueva Vizcaya
The University of Arizona Press
Homol'ovi II
Archaeology of an Ancestral Hopi Village, Arizona
Edited by E. Charles Adams; By Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin
The University of Arizona Press
Excavations at Punta de Agua in the Santa Cruz River Basin, Southeastern Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Ejidos and Regions of Refuge in Northwestern Mexico
Edited by N. Ross Crumrine and Phil C. Weigand
The University of Arizona Press
Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Cultural and Environmental History of Cienega Valley, Southeastern Arizona
By Frank W. Eddy and Maurice E. Cooley
The University of Arizona Press
Ceremonial Exchange as a Mechanism in Tribal Integration Among the Mayos of Northwest Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
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