A History of the Burma Corporation and the Bawdwin Mining Complex in British Colonial Burma
The Commonwealth of Empire explores the overlooked history of the Bawdwin mining complex in Burma's Northern Shan States, focusing on its development during the British colonial period. Drawing on global and imperial history, author David Baillargeon showcases how industrial-scale mining transformed Bawdwin into a hub of commerce and migration, ......
A bighearted memoir of fidelity and forgiveness, A Beginner's Guide to Faults draws on the language of geology to explore fault lines in a long marriage-deep fractures formed by unmet needs, quiet betrayals, and the human longing for connection and freedom. After twenty-five years of marriage, Denice is blindsided when her husband reveals his ......
How Velma Bronn Johnston Became Wild Horse Annie and Outsmarted the Mustang Killers of the West
The American mustang-wild, wind-tossed, and thundering across the open West-might have vanished into myth if not for Velma Bronn Johnston. A shy woman who was left with physical effects from a childhood battle with polio, Johnston was living a quiet life on a struggling ranch near Reno, Nevada, when she discovered wild horses being brutally ......
The first adventurers into the New World faced a fundamental legal challenge: how to secure rights to any mineral claims they discovered. Early conquistadors worked under charters that required them to return a portion of their findings to the Spanish crown, but those without such charters had no formal protection-and the crown was slow to clarify ......
Tellin' It Like It Is offers a powerful introduction to Adrian C. Louis (1946-2018), one of the most unflinching Native American literary voices of the twentieth century. Drawing from a half-century of published writing--and including a few previously unpublished pieces--this collection captures the evolution of Louis's voice, worldview, and ......
Many Americans revere their national parks as places of natural beauty and cultural significance-but few realize how often these landscapes have been shaped by the courtroom as much as by conservation policy. With more than 3,500 lawsuits involving the National Park Service, litigation has defined, defended, and sometimes even threatened the ......
An Incomplete History of the American West is a striking collection of twelve interconnected short stories that span 150 years across the stark, haunting landscape of the Great Basin. Moving chronologically through time, each story acts like a literary historical marker-pausing along the timeline to reveal a moment, a voice, a reckoning. ......
Noted writer and photographer Stephen Trimble mixes eloquent accounts of personal experiences with clear explication of natural history. His photographs capture some of the most spectacular but least-known scenery in the western states. The Great Basin Desert sweeps from the Sierra to the Rockies, from the Snake River Plain to the Mojave Desert. ......
Amarisa's Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders is a riveting collection whose worlds collide and connect between the fantastic and the ordinary. Startling in their breadth and depth, these stories range from the quietly desperate to the gloriously fantastical, representing Mexican American culture among the characters who are guided by ......
