Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 - Andres Resendez

DescriptionHispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions in this southwestern region during the fi...

Reducere. At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children? The realities of climate...

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. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

Reducere. The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accom...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncAuthor(s): Brian SudlowNumber of pages: 228Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 234 x 163 x 17Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. This is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian tr...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Judy LiddellIllustration(s): 41 colour photographs, 11 mapsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: ...

In villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain's New World empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattere...

Description"Burned-over District was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of develo...

This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse...

Reducere. Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's bir...

DescriptionRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on wh...

Reducere. In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of t...

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...

Reducere. Tularosa--sun-scorched, sandblasted, merciless--the parched desert where everything, from cactus to cowman, carries a weapon of some sort, and the ...

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Reducere. Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous...

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. A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle...

Reducere. The vast, arid plains of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona and the mountainous peaks of Colorado do not immediately suggest prime wine growing territo...

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 ...

Reducere. Description2005 Southwest Book Award The stories are charmingly frank, unexpectedly humorous, sometimes sad, all reminiscent of a simpler, though n...

Reducere. The decade 1910-1920 was the bloodiest in the controversial history of one of the most famous law enforcement agencies in the world--the Texas Rang...

Advanced media technologies have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. This title explores how Muslim-Arab ...

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...

Between 1850 and 1912, the year New Mexico was granted statehood, the Territory of New Mexico was a wild and dangerous place. Homesteaders, cowboys...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Nicola Minott-AhlNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 18Cover type: Hardbac...

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 ...

DescriptionHistorians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands af...

Reducere. When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American his...

Enjoy a fun day out at the pool in this bright and colourful lift-the-flap children's board book. Perfect for reading aloud and developing early wo...

Discover all the different food you can find in the supermarket in this bright and colourful lift-the-flap children's board book. Perfect for readi...

Discover the joy of being outside in the park in this bright and colourful lift-the-flap children's board book. Perfect for reading aloud and devel...

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 ...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River re...

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 ...

Reducere. "THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WE CAN'T ADDRESS . . . WHOEVER MAY OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE." "I'm not going to limit myself to condemning corruption and call...

Icons and Identities explores the portrayal of people as a human preoccupation from prehistoric art to digital media. Featuring internationally rec...

Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): J.A. JohnstoneNumber of pages: 368Collection: A Forever Texas NovelPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 141...

Moda in Tara Romaneasca. Intre Fanar, Viena si Paris, 1800-1850 - Tudor Dinu

Reducere. Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith ...

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.

Reducere. Pe langa atatea alte prefaceri si transformari sociale, prima jumatate a secolului al XIX-lea a adus in Tara Romaneasca o schimbare spectaculoasa a...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native ...