The lush and layered stories in this delightful debut stretch from the deep darkness of Carlsbad Caverns to the light of desert stars. In Nancy J. Allen's fierce first collection, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, the extraordinary emerges from the everyday. Allen's stories are informed by the vast landscapes of New Mexico and Texas, and ......
A comprehensive, comparative, and regionwide perspective on Latin American economic development spanning the last twenty-five years. Latin America's economic performance is often depicted as a long sequence of repeated failures, including its contribution to global financial crises as well as its slow growth and intractable inequalities. Its ......
Warfare and Military Culture in the Texas-Northeastern Mexico Borderlands,1686-1845
Armed Frontier is a deeply researched and yet accessible history of border skirmishes from mid-colonial times to the first Texas secession. The history of warfare and armed organization during the colonial period and early nineteenth century in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico remains largely untold. Previous studies either cover the ......
Warfare and Military Culture in the Texas-Northeastern Mexico Borderlands,1686-1845
Armed Frontier is a deeply researched and yet accessible history of border skirmishes from mid-colonial times to the first Texas secession. The history of warfare and armed organization during the colonial period and early nineteenth century in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico remains largely untold. Previous studies either cover the ......
A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished essays, drama, and poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature withing the revolutionary modernist movement. The American poet Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) was a master craftsman in a wide range of forms both traditional and ......
A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished essays, drama, and poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature withing the revolutionary modernist movement. The American poet Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) was a master craftsman in a wide range of forms both traditional and ......
As the very foundations of democracy are under stress in many parts of the world, this timely and important work examines the consequences of democracy and economic globalization on popular protests throughout Latin America. The arrival of democracy and globalization was a watershed moment for Latin America. It produced a changing political and ......
Violence and Resistance Along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture
Reprint from hardcover, this work takes the actual violence of the southwestern United States and demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers create and comment on the brutalities of our real world. In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well ......
Book club fiction at its finest as Kathleen Rodgers' novel reaches new heights, and hopefully new audiences, in this marvelous story of a group of girls in northeast New Mexico. Here is regional fiction aspiring for a broader market! Growing up in the desert town of Sandhill, New Mexico, Marigold Hubbard and her friends wanted only one thing: to ......
