Fictions of Western American Domesticity. Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950, Paperback - Amanda J. Zink

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

Reducere. A chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known Indian battles with civilian...

Reducere. Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the figure of the curandera within Mexican American literature. Amanda E...

DescriptionIn 1830 census takers trudged door to door in San Antonio de Bexar and Nacogdoches gathering census data on the residents. Either they g...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressNumber of pages: 424Publication date: 1987Dimensions: 229 x 151 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s...

Reducere. Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history....

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

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Imperial Vancouver Island, Who was Who 1850-1950 is an enlarged second edition of an A to Z biographical dictionary of about 800 British officers, ...

This book demonstrates that an ethics of individual conscience and virtue is incommensurate with Calvin's doctrine and shows that for Calvin, Chris...

Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E...

An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in wes...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 16 colour & 56 bw illusNumber of pages: 312Collection: Contextualizing Art MarketsPublication ...

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empir...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Publisher: McFarland & Co IncAuthor(s): Sharon Paice MacLeodIllustration(s): 17 illustrationsNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2013Dimensions: ...

Reducere. Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinati...

Reducere. A practical, hands-on guide to Mexican-American folk magic. American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic cur...

Reducere. The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and yo...

Reducere. Emily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascin...

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

Focuses on large and problematic groups from Western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom, the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in Fran...

Reducere. Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. ...

How a controversy over a slain Mexican American soldier contributed to the rise of Mexican American activism.

DescriptionThis book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of AngloAmerican his...

Reducere. In The Women of La Raza, Enriqueta Vasquez brings together her long-time political commitments with her marvelous sense of curiosity and wonder to ...

Reducere. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano national...

DescriptionSNAFU: Resurrection brings back the award-shortlisted SNAFU series with a bang Soldiers facing horrors beyond imagining, while facing th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carroll QuigleyProfessor Carroll Quigley presents crucial "keys" without which 20th century political, economic, and milita...

Reducere. The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more...

... provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." --Iris... a very...

Reducere. Carrera Panamericana the Mexican Road Race. In its day it was the longest, fastest and likely wildest international automobile race ever staged. A ...

Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical t...

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Hardly anybody uses teapots anymore, teabags have taken over. Bertie the teapot had been sitting on the shelf in the kitchen, unused for months. On...

DescriptionThe only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a...

DescriptionResponding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexica...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Deanna M. KennedyEditor: Charles F. HarringtonEditor: Amy Klemm VerbosAmerican Indian business is booming. The number of Am...

Reducere. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia--unable, or unwilling, to remember...

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary ...

Reducere. During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive p...

Reducere. When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler--wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"--set out...

The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virg...

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests...

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