Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.
In this new edition James A. Pritchard has added a summary of recent developments in wildlife science and management and discusses historical continuities in the role of Yellowstone Park as a wildlife refuge and conservator.
By synthesizing scholarly work at the intersection of political ecology, digital geography, and science and technology studies, The Nature of Data analyzes how new digital technologies affect environments and their control.
J.J. Anselmi tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rate—yet a place that has proven remarkably resilient.
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy, France.
David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr., the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement.
Lawrence A. Dwyer has written the story of Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation, who was willing to face arrest... Læs mere
The poems of Might Kindred wonder: “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, Mónica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice.
These poems pry at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.
In modern American soccer’s origin story, a young, underdog team and their wise coach journey to fearsome arenas in Central America and deafening stadiums in Italy in 1990, bringing the United States to its first World Cup in forty years.
Ryan Poll argues that the New 52 Aquaman develops the superhero into a figure of ecological justice who charts the... Læs mere
Bleeding Green is a lifelong fan’s look at the Hartford Whalers, a National Hockey League team that, despite an inglorious past and a future that unexpectedly vanished, has had a lasting impact on the sports landscape.