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Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula.

Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer bring together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia.

Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to Teresina Bent Scheurich's death in 1920, exploring how one family negotiated shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests.

Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatan and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms.

Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the overall history of economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American West through the personal insight of Buffalo Bill's business partner and friend, George W. T. Beck.

Rocio Gomez studies how the silver mining industry affected water resources and public health in the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, from 1835 to 1946.

The story of the thrilling 1932 baseball season and Babe Ruth's called shot.

In celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary, the University of Nebraska Press has collected an anthology of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by Nebraska undergraduate college students and high school seniors in the theme of ""Voices of Nebraska: Diverse Landscapes, Diverse Peoples"".

On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days. Weston¿s first epic walk across America transcended sport. He was ¿everyman¿ in a stirring battle against the elements and exhaustion, tramping along at the pace of someone decades younger. Having long been Americäs greatest pedestrian, he was attempting the most ambitious and physically taxing walk of his career. He walked most of the way alone when the car that he hired to follow him kept breaking down, and he often had to rest without adequate food or shelter. That Weston made it is one of the truly great but forgotten sports feats of all time. Thanks in large part to his daily dispatches of his travails¿from blizzards to intense heat, rutted roads, bad shoes, and illness¿Weston¿s trek became a wonder of the ages and attracted international headlines to the sport called ¿pedestrianism.¿ Aided by long-buried archival information, colorful biographical details, and Weston¿s diary entries, Walk of Ages is more than a book about a man going for a walk. It is an epic tale of beating the odds and a penetrating look at a vanished time in America.

An introduction to the history, structure, and characteristics of politics in Rhode Island. This book explains the state's constitution, general assembly, executive branch, party system, interest groups, budgetary process, and relationship to the federal government. It also explores the nature of local government.

The average pitcher has about a.000645 chance of throwing a no-hitter. In the spring of 1938, Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher Johnny Vander Meer pitched two, back to back. The feat has never been duplicated. Double No-Hit offers an inning-by-inning account of that historic second consecutive no-hitter, accomplished during the first night game in New York City.

During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians¿ equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives¿appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi covers¿were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.War Paintings of the Tsuu T¿ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T¿ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T¿ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T¿ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T¿ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone¿s analysis furthers our understanding of Tsuu T¿ina pictographic war paintings in relation to the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the richest and most important Native American artistic and literary genres.

Offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. Written by one of America's most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Ted Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

By examining how some of the best fiction writers have taken up the challenge of film, television, video games, and hypertext, Daniel Punday offers an enlightening look into the current status of such fundamental narrative concepts as character, plot, and setting. Writing at the Limit explores what it really means to be writing at print's media limit.

Standing Bear died in 1908, but his legacy and influence continue even up to the present.

Sports Journalism tells the full story of American sports journalism and the notable changes in technology that have dramatically changed how Americans consumed it.

Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder and personal journey toward the acceptance and management of this lifelong illness.

Heart of Lions recounts the development of bicycle racing in the United States, explains why its popularity faded, and profiles major American cyclists from the past through the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Rising from the Ashes explores continuing Native American survival, contemporary life, and sovereignty, with a focus on the life of Numiipuu (Nez Perce) anthropologist Archie M. Phinney.

A study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana has successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes since 1699.

Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland.

Part baseball nostalgia and part road trip travelogue, The Wax Pack follows Brad Balukjian as he tracks down players from a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 that had remained sealed for almost thirty years.

Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important new trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers' role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.

When Sunflowers Bloomed Red provides a synopsis of a Kansas style of radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement transformed and coalesced with socialist and syndicalist political movements to influence politics and culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

Storytelling and singing is a vital part of community life for Native peoples. This book gathers stories and songs from many Native groups in North America - including the Inupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far West, the Catawbas in the humid South, and the Maliseets of the rugged woods of the East.

Bighorn sheep graze on the last of the green grass on Gets-Struck-By-Lightning Mountain in the late fall. Two Hawk's father and older brother, Night Heron, set off through newly fallen snow to hunt with their dogs. Two Hawk is sad to be left behind, but he has heard the bull elk's mating call for seven seasons, too few to be old enough to hunt.

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, explorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, officer, hunter, and rancher. This book lets you join Kit Carson as he strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen, and witness his encounters with Indians in the Navaho and Southern Plains campaigns.