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A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.

A study of a group of earlier Spaniards in America.

This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in Sao Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee trade; where it found its markets, its credit, and its labor force; and how it confronted the competition of imports.

A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.

Forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds.

An analysis of the Texas governorship built on a broad historical foundation that places events and persons in a perspective perhaps not previously considered by the reader.

A James Beard Foundation Awardwinning record of the traditional regional cuisines of Oaxaca, from one of the world's foremost authorities on Mexican cooking.No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking, Kennedy has been an intrepid, indefatigable student of Mexican foodways for more than fifty years and has published several classic books on the subject, including The Cuisines of Mexico (now available in The Essential Cuisines of Mexico, a compilation of her first three books), The Art of Mexican Cooking, My Mexico, and From My Mexican Kitchen. Her uncompromising insistence on using the proper local ingredients and preparation techniques has taught generations of cooks how to prepareand savorthe delicious, subtle, and varied tastes of Mexico.In Oaxaca al Gusto, Kennedy takes us on an amazing journey into one of the most outstanding and colorful cuisines in the world. The state of Oaxaca is one of the most diverse in Mexico, with many different cultural and linguistic groups, often living in areas difficult to access. Each group has its own distinctive cuisine, and Diana Kennedy has spent many years traveling the length and breadth of Oaxaca to record in words and photographs ';these little-known foods, both wild and cultivated, the way they were prepared, and the part they play in the daily or festive life of the communities I visited.' Oaxaca al Gusto is the fruit of these laborsand the culmination of Diana Kennedy's life's work. Organized by regions, Oaxaca al Gusto presents some three hundred recipesmost from home cooksfor traditional Oaxacan dishes. Kennedy accompanies each recipe with fascinating notes about the ingredients, cooking techniques, and the food's place in family and communal life. Lovely color photographs illustrate the food and its preparation. A special feature of the book is a chapter devoted to the three pillars of the Oaxacan regional cuisineschocolate, corn, and chiles. Notes to the cook, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index complete the volume.

How the ruling elite of ancient Rome sought -- and often failed -- to eradicate the memory of their deceased opponents.

This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.

Originally delivered at a symposium held in May 1968 during the national meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, these essays offer differing points of view and considerable evidence on the pros and cons of pre-Columbian contact between the Old W

The story of a man who lived through the final days of the Inca empire.

Essays on Portugal in the mid-1970s.

Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.

Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled.

In this volume, noted historians and anthropologists pool their considerable expertise to analyze the situation in Guatemala, working from the premise that the Indian/state relationship is the single most important determinant of Guatemala's distinctive h

A reprint of a 1959 guide to Texas legumes.

The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.

Charles Olson was an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of twentieth-century poetry in America; this study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work.

A broadly cross-cultural study of aristocracy in chiefly societies.

This groundbreaking book explores the Southwest as both a real and a culturally constructed site of migration and encounter, in which the very identities of "alien" and "native" shift with each act of travel.

A boldly revisionist view of the organization of the ayllu, ancient Andean kinship groups.

A vivid, firsthand account of the migrations, immigrant camps, and labor organizing of displaced Midwestern farmers during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, illustrated with striking photographs.

A provocative rethinking of the war on terror that exposes the dangers of Western blindness to colonial Middle Eastern history and breaks the deadlock of geopolitics and religious identity.

By one of the foremost historians and translators in the field of Classics, Peter Green-an authoritative, modern translation of a long-neglected historian whose work covers the most vital century in ancient Greek history.

A collection of folklore about rattlesnakes.

In this literary novel set in nineteenth-century Texas, a Tejana lesbian cowgirl embarks on an adventure after the fall of the Alamo.Micaela Campos witnesses the violence against Mexicans, African Americans, and indigenous peoples after the infamous battles of the Alamo and of San Jacinto, both in 1836. Resisting an easy opposition between good versus evil and brown versus white characters, the novel also features Micaela's Mexican-Anglo cousin who assists and hinders her progress. Micaela's travels give us a new portrayal of the American West, populated by people of mixed races who are vexed by the collision of cultures and politics. Ultimately, Micaela's journey and her romance with a Black/American Indian woman teach her that there are no easy solutions to the injustices that birthed the Texas Republic...This novel is an intervention in queer history and fiction with its love story between two women of color in mid-nineteenth-century Texas. Perez also shows how a colonial past still haunts our nation's imagination. The battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto offered freedom and liberty to Texans, but what is often erased from the story is that common people who were Mexican, Indian, and Black did not necessarily benefit from the influx of so many Anglo immigrants to Texas. The social themes and identity issues that Perez explorespolitical climate, debates over immigration, and historical revision of the American Westare current today.';Perez's sparse, clean writing style is a blend of Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, and Annie Proulx. This makes for a quick and engrossing reading experience as the narrative has a fluid quality about it.' Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor and chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Sor Juana's Second Dream';Riveting... Emma Perez captures well the violence and the chaos of the southwest borderlands during the time of territorial and international disputes in the 1800s.... Perez vividly depicts the conflicts between nations with the authority of a historian and with language belonging to a poet. A fine, fine read.' Helena Maria Viramontes, author of Their Dogs Came with Them';Perez's new novel... Powerfully presents a revenge tale from an unusual point of view, that of a displaced Chicana in 1836 Texas.... The writing is sharp and clever. The dialogue is realistic.' Lambda Literary, Lambda Award Finalist';Filled with lush beauty, harshness, and horrifying brutality, this is one of those books in which you just KNOW what's going to happen at the endbut you're wrong.' The Gay & Lesbian Review

An economic history of Texas in the late nineteenth century.

John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Tom Stoppard's work in nearly a decade.

Viewing popular women's daytime TV programs of the 1950s from a feminist perspective.

The history of a land company, its railroad parent, and its role in the development of Northwest Texas.