The thirteen original essays in this volume explore the dynamics of continuity, conflict, and change in Cuba. Analyzed here are the historical trends and patterns of conflict in Cuba compared to contradictions that inevitably arise in any political system.

This volume supplements the standard accounts of New Mexico history and will reward readers seeking to understand the complex nature of contemporary New Mexico.

In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking.

Documents the daily activities of Hispanic pioneers--buffalo hunting, horse breaking, sheep herding, preparing and preserving food, sewing, tending the sick, and educating children are included in this rich recuerdo, as well as stories of Comancheros, Tejanos, Americanos, and outlaws.

This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.

The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life’s Circle is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form "templates" for life in particular cultures.

A richly illustrated guide to the trails of this unique and varied western New Mexico area.

Examines the end of the colonial era in Bolivia.

Indian remains in the Smithsonian cause ghosts to haunt, torment, and murder researchers--even as they themselves are tormented by the items in the museum's collection.

Gathers the pre-Sand Country Almanac writings of Aldo Leopold, showing that he was not born an ecologist, but evolved over time through experimentation and thought.

Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.

A fully illustrated guide, keyed state by state, to all 16 species of North American hummers, including all of their personal quirks and habits.

Hauptman selects topics from the 17th century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relationships, including stereotypes of Indians as mascots.

A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.

The insights of the historians, literary critics, philosophers, and scientists presented here provide readers with a greater appreciation for Muir's multidimensional personality and his contributions to the preservation movement.

This clearly written and carefully argued narrative presents a less mythical and more human Zapata against the dramatic and chaotic background of the Mexican Revolution.

"Baudelaire Meets Poe," Jane Rabb has gathered the first and last words about photographs and photography.

Robert Levine tells the story of Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), Brazilian, Black, illegitimate, extremely poor, and Brazil's best-selling author upon the publication of her journals.

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.