A narrative history of the many peoples and cultures of the American West from prehistory to the twenty-first century.

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.

This new revision of New Mexico Government includes a brief history of the state and other chapters on government organization, local and tribal governments, elections, and education.

The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.

The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.

A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.

The Santa Ana Pueblo creation legend including how Coyote tricked the other animals to join them in our world and how he was punished.

Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states.

This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.

Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.

How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.

This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.

The agrarian revolution beginning in 1910 in rural Morelos helped shape Mexican society for the rest of the twentieth century.

The life of celebrated Mexican archaeologist Moctezuma tells of a man rising to the challenges of life and a man who has eloquently spoken to the the importance of understanding the roots of civilization.

Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.

This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle’s life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American Indian literature.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Native American scholars offer new views of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that emphasize the transformative roles of material culture in mediating Pueblo Indian strategies of resistance and Colonial Spanish structures of domination.

Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.

The authors document the secret role of the Mexican president in the insurgency against Anglos during the Mexican Revolution and the Texas Rangers' role in ending the uprising.

The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.

A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.

Dedek paints a complex portrait of America's most famous highway.

These tales of the mountains, mines, and characters of the Guadalupe range were collected over many years by the author who has explored the area since he was a boy.

This valuable and long-out-of-print edition of Pike's Southwestern journals is being reissued on the bicentennial of the journey with a new Introduction by historian Mark L. Gardner.

Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.

"This lady is a big breath of hope in a cynical age."--from the Introduction by John Nichols