Bridging Cultures. Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, Hardback - ***

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. A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than ...

A collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies that explore the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Naomi EvansNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 222 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

As with the three previous titles in the Cultures and Globalization Series, this is a cutting edge collection from an international group of author...

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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Andrey TarkovskyTranslator: Kitty Hunter-BlairAndrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergm...

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

Reducere. Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

Reducere. Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and h...

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 ...

Garo Z. Antreasian (b. 1922) belongs to the great generation of innovators in mid-twentieth-century American art. While influenced by a variety of ...

Publisher: University of Texas PressAuthor(s): Rosemary A. JoyceNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 154 x 229 x 14Cover type: Pap...

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. ...

Reducere. Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico bord...

Reducere. Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power...

The Book of Aggie Lists brings together in one volume a vast amount of information that will be welcomed by current and former students of Texas A&...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Reducere. Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contem...

The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an examination of the post-Civil War migration of former southern slaveholders into Mexico.Illustrations: 6 photog...

Reducere. Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of M...

Reducere. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos--faith healers--who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outs...

Reducere. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos--faith healers--who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outs...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, s...

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...

How should British national identity be understood in the light of the UK's decision to leave the European Union?Editor(s): Andrew Bradstock

Reducere. DescriptionJoining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel vila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and ...

People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portio...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Grant SniderIllustration(s): Full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

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...

Why is it so difficult to make a good peace when it is so easy to imagine? That is the question behind Imagine: Reflections on Peace.Illustrations:...

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remark...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jim McDonaldIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 164Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 238 x 22C...

In this unique work, the authors explore both the historic origins of the Day of the Dead and its colorful present-day celebrations in Mexico and t...

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory is a collection of essays on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake document which has created a pernicious an...

Publisher: Harbour PublishingAuthor(s): Adrian DorstIllustration(s): Colour photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 287 x 224 x...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Retief MullerNumber of pages: 232Collection: Scottish Religious CulturesPublication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. DescriptionINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collectio...

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on imm...

Reducere. Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texa...

Reducere. Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech Univer...

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been dr...

Reducere. The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was th...

Reducere. In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and milita...

An electric memoir about what it means to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the award-winning trans writer and perf...

Collecting incisive, deeply personal interviews with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative ...

Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. This book combines cultural history with anthropologi...

Reducere. Prior to European contact, the Choctaw's matrilineal society supported women's contributions in all areas of community life. Evidence of Choctaw wo...

Publisher: UnboundNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Abrisham Ahmadzade...