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System and Succession provides a comparative analysis of the social composition of national political leadership in the United States, Russia, Germany, and Mexico.

Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades.

Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt.

Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky's revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer.

The autobiographical account of a 19th century British man's childhood on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua.

This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting p

A reconstruction of Apachean history and culture that sheds much light on the origins, dispersions, and relationships of Apache groups. Mention ';Apaches,' and many Anglo-Americans picture the ';marauding savages' of western movies or impoverished reservations beset by a host of social problems. But, like most stereotypes, these images distort the complex history and rich cultural heritage of the Apachean peoples, who include the Navajo, as well as the Western, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Kiowa Apaches. In this pioneering study, Richard Perry synthesizes the findings of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct the Apachean past and offer a fuller understanding of the forces that have shaped modern Apache culture. While scholars generally agree that the Apacheans are part of a larger group of Athapaskan-speaking peoples who originated in the western Subarctic, there are few archaeological remains to prove when, where, and why those northern cold dwellers migrated to the hot deserts of the American Southwest. Using an innovative method of ethnographic reconstruction, however, Perry hypothesizes that these nomadic hunters were highly adaptable and used to exploiting the resources of a wide range of mountainous habitats. When changes in their surroundings forced the ancient Apacheans to expand their food quest, it was natural for them to migrate down the ';mountain corridor' formed by the Rocky Mountain chain. Perry is the first researcher to attempt such an extensive reconstruction, and his study is the first to deal with the full range of Athapaskan-speaking peoples. His method will be instructive to students of other cultures who face a similar lack of historical and archaeological data.

A study of one of Byron's most notable poetic dramas.

This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru's peasant population in the 1960s.

A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.

The first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" ima

This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.

';Perry undertakes the enormous task of analyzing the historical workings of the reservation system, using the San Carlos Apache as a case study.' The American Historical Review ';Indian reservations' were the United States' ultimate solution to the ';problem' of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. The San Carlos Apache Reservation of Arizona provides the lens through which Perry views reservation issues. One of the oldest and largest reservations, its location in a minerals- and metals-rich area has often brought it into conflict with powerful private and governmental interests. Indeed, Perry argues that the reservation system is best understood in terms of competition for resources among interest groups through time within the hegemony of the state. He asserts that full control over their resourcesand hence, over their liveswould address many of the Apache's contemporary economic problems.

In this literary biography, Goodman traces the life of the brilliant but troubled Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jean Stafford, and reassesses her importance.

In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better understand the shift from Roman to Germanic power that occurred in the region during the fifth century A.D.

This book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable.

Linguistic data on color names from speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages.

The result of many years of research in Guatemala, this volume utilizes the author's fieldwork as well as that of his colleagues and students to construct a set of concepts explaining how Guatemala reached the difficult circumstances in which it found itself in the 1960s-and still finds itself today.

Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin-literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings.

How American military personnel and their dependents have affected the political and social evolution of Morocco.

How an ultracivilized country, one of the most European in Latin America, relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s.

The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.

A remarkable correspondence between the poet Robert Browning and his friend Isabella Blagden.

The first in-depth examination of Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity and its role in the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State.

A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieu's practice-theoretical approach.

Reconstructing Beirut contributes to a new approach to Middle East studies that applies recent theories of memory and space/place, bringing a fresh framework for analyzing contemporary Arab cultures and post-conflict cities.

This monumental study is an account of the world economy since the eighteenth century, an analysis and prescription for the future, and a challenge to the neo-Keynesian theories of income determination and growth.