River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands, Paperback - Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez

Reducere. In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande regio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul HorganWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1954)Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History (1954) Winner of both the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it ...

Reducere. Description"Occasionally a truly remarkable book appears-one that takes a topic in need of discussion, thoroughly researches it, and presents credi...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is another Civil War history book, but it deals with an aspect of the Civil War that does not appear-even as an aside or footnote-i...

Reducere. During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Gra...

Reducere. The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained ...

This book investigates the relationship between the ideas of nation and race in the Risorgimento nationalist intelligentsia and argues that ideas o...

Reducere. When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of th...

Reducere. DescriptionTexas birdlife is strongly influenced by the incredible diversity of habitats found within its borders. The Rio Grande corridor is a gre...

An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the bo...

Reducere. Tradition meets tragedy in the chilling local lore of the Rio Grande Valley. Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes wait sinister secrets...

Reducere. DescriptionThe kindergarten student, her family recently settled from Mexico, wiggled a loose tooth that she hoped would dislodge soon so she could...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frederic Beigbeder, Aurelien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies...

At the turn of the century, diverse political, economic, and social conditions divided Ecuador. During the construction of the Guayaquil-Quito Rail...

DescriptionWhere the Mesquite Tree Grows is a poignant and riveting journey through the thoughts and recollections of a Mexican American young man ...

Reducere. DescriptionLewels' tales of a young Mexican-American coming of age on the border are riveting. Sometimes they are zany and at other times heart bre...

Anatomy of a Nation explores over 800, 000 years of British identity by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique: it...

Get cooking with the UK's youngest, award-winning vegan chef, Omari McQueen

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. DescriptionA novel, set in South Texas, that challenges the Lone Ranger story with a Chicano Superhero in the early 20th century. Mexican Tejano fa...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad ...

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad ...

Reducere. Omar Sayfo textually analyses around 40 animation productions in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Ar...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Franklin FolsomIntroduction by: Alfonso OrtizThis award-winning account of the Pueblo Revolt, originally published in 1973 ...

Reducere. The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early ...

Reducere. The editors of the acclaimed Borderlands anthology series deliver a new collection of 25 all-original tales of terror by today's acclaimed masters,...

Focuses specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/RIo Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing toget...

Reducere. DescriptionPura Belpr Honor-winning author David Bowles joins Newbery Honor-winning Adam Gidwitz as co-author of the newest Unicorn Rescue Society ...

Reducere. Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native Ame...

DescriptionMost general histories of the Civil War pay scant attention to the many important military events that took place in the Lower Rio Grand...

The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the bo...

Recovers the history of a significant regional revolt against the Mexican Republic, presaging other federalist rebellions and the Mexican-American ...

DescriptionHow was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British na...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Introducing Commissario Soneri, a highly original, complex creation, in a brooding and evocative crime novel set in the Po valley.Publisher: Quercu...

Reducere. DescriptionThis guidebook to the dance ceremonies of New Mexico Pueblo Indians is a wonderful aid for anyone looking to visit the pueblos. It conta...

Reducere. Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to under...

DescriptionIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating th...