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

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.

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

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.

This beautifully illustrated biography of painter Rance Hood focuses on his art and its place within Native American art, history, and culture.

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.

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

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.

This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American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

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.

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.

Whittlesey shares tales of "the great Geyserland" as told by the earliest tour guides of America's first and most unique national park.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Dewey tells the stories of early Puebloan peoples and their reverance for the land and animals on which their survival depended.

The traditional Hispanic culture of 1950s Santa Fe comes alive through the members of the hardworking Romero family.

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.

The first large-scale dictionary of any of the Eastern Apachean languages.

This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home in Taos, New Mexico.

One of the West's most eloquent photographers shares his favorite images and his stories of how they came to be.

A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.

This thoroughly researched study uses death to explore the intersection of religious culture and politics in colonial New Mexico.

The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.

Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.

These poems reveal Price's healing from the crippling traps of childhood and the rejection of the conformity required by modern American life.

This detailed history of Remington's role in the development of military weapons is the result of twenty-five years of research of the company's records and military archives.

Alex Harris beautifully captures many archetypes of today's Cuba, and Lillian Guerra's essay discusses what it means to be Cuban.

Noted archaeologist Polly Schaafsma presents new research by current scholars on this largely neglected ancestral Puebloan site.

The authors provide the first systematic study of the infamous massacre now regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history.

New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.

How six Latina authors, whose works combine autobiography and fiction, use this technique to heal from personal and political trauma.

Translucent with humane insight, Bartlett's poetry embodies an intense awareness of what it takes to prevail over life's misfortunes.

The story of Charley Pyle's 3,400-mile cross country race and extravaganza and the men who endured 84 days of mountains, deserts, mud, and sandstorms to compete for a $25,000 grand prize.

The work of one of the earliest Mexican American women writers who focused on life lived between two cultures and nations is the subject of this new literary study.

Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.

Skuban's study highlights the fabricated nature of national identity in what became one of the most contentious border disputes in South American history.

This historically accurate and beautifully written novel explores the secret inclinations, subjective desires, and political struggles of the 17th-century Mexican nun and poet.

White examines the complex political relationships among the three countries during the sixties and how Mexico and Cuba utilized the Cold War to define themselves as influential leaders in the developing world.

This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.

"Hal Rothman is both the greatest Western historian of his generation and an H. L. Mencken in cowboy boots."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon

Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy.