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As immigrants came to the United States from Mexico, the term "Greater Mexico" was coined to specify the area of their greatest concentration. America...
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past thr...
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From Dinétah to Denendeh
This insightful volume offers an analysis of land-based Diné and Dene imaginaries as embodied in their own cinematic, visual, and literary stories. W...
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Ro...
The Struggles of the Pecos River
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of th...
The Making of a Pan-African North America
African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story o...
Question Everything and Discover the Genius of Thinking Differently
Why blend in when you were born to stand out? Who Says? Question Everything and Discover the Genius of Thinking Differently is a manifesto for those w...
The Price of Protecting Extremism
In this work, Amos Guiora defines extremism through the lens of a comparative and empirical study in order to lay the foundations for a legal response...
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
Supported by The Walter and May Reuther Memorial Fund Previously published by Basic Books as The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the...
A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama
How to Understand, Prepare, and Respond
Persecution can kill the church—unless there is an adequate understanding of, preparation for, and response to this potentially fatal threat. Surviv...
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pi...
An important examination of the foundational American ideal of economic equality—and how we lost it. Winner of the Missouri Conference on History Bo...
Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America
The first scholarly book to examine in detail the role of masculinity in aviation, Weekend Pilots adds new dimensions to our understanding of embedded...
Chinese Power Meets the World
In 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced a campaign for national rejuvenation. The One Belt One Road initiative, or OBOR, has become the largest i...
The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care
Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powere...
U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance
By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictio...
Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency a...
A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster
The incredible true story of the mysterious sea creature who captured hearts and imaginations during the turbulent 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. In the sum...
A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a force o...
Third series
Histories of Anthropology Annual promotes diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context. Critical, comparative, analytical,...
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States....
Crafting an American Icon
The definitive study on the history, meaning, art, and commerce of Amish quilts. Second Place Winner of the Design and Effectiveness Award of the Wash...
In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a...
The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet sy...
Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were a...
Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border
"The twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, for years straddled an indistinct border," but with the maquiladora industry, a crackdown a...
A Basic Guide to All Aspects of Book Collecting: What to Collect, Who to Buy from, Auctions, Bibliographies, Care, Fakes and Forgeries, Investments, Donations, Definitions, and More
Modern Book Collecting offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have—what to collect and where to find it...
Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado...
Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississi...