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México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive SeventiesM xico Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. The massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 is often considered the defining moment of this period. The authors in this volume challenge...
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Rethinking the Aztec EconomyWith its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of...
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Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsJoining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel vila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese...
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Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940Winner of the Alfred B. Thomas Award (Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies) Revolutionary Parks tells the surprising story of how forty national parks were created in Mexico during the latter stages of the first social revolution of the twentieth century. By 1940 Mexico...
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Murray Springs: A Clovis Site with Multiple Activity Areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona Volume 71The Murray Springs Site in the upper San Pedro River Valley of southeast Arizona is one of the most significant Clovis sites ever found. It contained a multiple bison kill, a mammoth kill, and possibly a horse kill in a deeply stratified sedimentary context....
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Sharing the Desert: The Tohono O'odham in HistoryThis book marks the culmination of fifteen years of collaboration between the University of Utah's American West Center and the Tohono O'oodham Nation's Education Department to collect documents and create curricular materials for use in their tribal school system. . . . Erickson has...
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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. The Chinese in Mexico provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the...
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Indian Assimilation in the Franciscan Area of Nueva Vizcaya: Volume 33Examines the processes of disappearance during the late 16th and 17th centuries--through assimilation or extermination--of the native Indians encountered by Spaniards in present-day Chihuahua, Mexico.Author: William B. GriffenPublisher: University of Arizona PressPublished: 10/01/2015Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780816505845This title is only available via back order
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A Brief History of Great BritainNarrates the history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the 21st century, covering the entire island (England, Wales, and Scotland) as well as associated archipelagos such as the Channel Islands, the Orkneys, and Ireland as they have influenced British history. This title...
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Vintage Journal Indigenous Alaskan WomanThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Indigenous Alaskan Woman, features a profile portrait of an Indigenous woman in Alaska wearing native dress. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing...
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The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly...
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Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and ImageIn June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee of their complete exodus from this North African land in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in 1948-49. Jews had resided in Libya since Phoenician times, seventeen centuries before their encounter...
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The Children of La Hille: Eluding Nazi Capture During World War IIFollowing the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher...
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The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's FairFrom April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Taking a perceptive look back at the...
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The Double Indemnity Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and New York's Crime of the CenturyQueens Village was a picture-perfect postcard New York suburb. But in March 1927 the fa ade of respectability was stripped away to reveal an underside of greed, lust, and crime. Few incidents in crime history have been so notorious as the murder of Albert...
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Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing (Revised)This collection of twenty-two Delaware Indian stories has long been sought out both by scholars and individuals. Beyond the lessons, the book introduces the richness of the original Delaware language to an English-speaking audience: four of these legends have been retranslated into the Delaware...
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Canal TownSamuel Hopkins Adams presents a fictional portrait of an Erie Canal town in the early nineteenth century. This piece of classic literature relates the tale ofa young doctor setting up a practice in the canal town.Author: Samuel Hopkins AdamsPublisher: Syracuse University Publications in ContinuinPublished:...
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Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American StudiesArkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards a bus, and immediately is faced with a dilemma. Not white. Not...
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The World War I ReaderAn accessible compilation of primary and secondary scholarship on the frequently misunderstood First World War Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. Its enormous impact on the world in terms...
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The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of VietnamHow the startling image of an anti-war protested spitting on a uniformed veteran misrepresented the narrative of Vietnam War political debate One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is that of the anti-war protester -- often a woman -- spitting on...
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