A cultural satire, McKenzie Rising follows the MegaMax Corporation’s (Microsoft out ExxonMobil by Deutsche Bank) venture to turn the upper McKenzie valley into an upscale development, the Estates at Rancho Rio.
Lyman ""Bean"" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism is reassesing his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual... Læs mere
An accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere, this book is both a pioneering study of one of the American West's most important ethnic... Læs mere
Historians of the American West are indebted to the pioneering scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Frederick... Læs mere
Basque nationalism has been extensively examined from the perspectives of Basque culture and internal conditions in the Basque Country, but André Lecours is... Læs mere
A fully contextualized, cultural account of the endemic conflict engaging Basque villagers
From 1940 to 1989, nearly every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip employed a full-time band or orchestra. After the late 1980s, when... Læs mere
The mobility of Americans and the homogenizing tendencies of our economy and society have left us detached from an authentic connection to place and knowledge... Læs mere
Offers a comprehensive study of the literature on the American academic presidency from the middle of the nineteenth century - when the... Læs mere