A unique transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. Marjorie Becker’s multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacan females.
One of the first travel journals of its kind to be published, this epic poem about Juan de Onate's entrada that led to... Læs mere
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful... Læs mere
In this enthralling memoir we follow Max Evans and Sam Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol,... Læs mere
The Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral is celebrated by her native Chile as the ""mother of the nation"". These letters, published in Spanish in 2010 and... Læs mere
The first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages. The contributors argue that Native rhetorical practices have their own interior logic, which is grounded in the morality and religion of their given traditions.
Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the... Læs mere
Mormons first came to Mexico as soldiers during the Mexican-American War and later as missionaries, refugees, and settlers. Just South of... Læs mere
Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of... Læs mere
Focuses on the birds of prey of New Mexico. This book presents the history of the word 'raptor'. It uses the order of Raptatores, or Raptores to classify birds of prey in the early nineteenth century, derived from the Latin word raptor, one who seizes by force.