In this month-by-month guide to home gardening in Northern New Mexico and the Southern Rocky Mountains, Nan Fischer-proprietor of nannie plants LLC in Taos-gives readers advice on composting, mulching, soil improvements, cold-frame planting for the extension of the growing season, hardy plant selection for the Rocky Mountains, and the wise use of ......
Stacey Waite's newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What kind of world do we make with gender?
In these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultural and political events of the new millennium, from Howard Dean's presidential campaign to the Iraq War protests and the NoDAPL uprising in Standing ......
In this brilliantly rendered collection-the author's fourth-Morales explores love and grief after the death of his father, weaving his father's personality, his childhood in Puerto Rico, and his service in the US military with dreamscapes and explorations of life after death and how our loved ones continue to live on in our memories and actions.
Art and Iconography of the Ceramics of Ancient Panama
The result of decades of study, Alan Grinnell's Painting the Cosmos presents the spectacular and underappreciated art of Panama and its revealing iconography. Emphasizing brightly painted polychrome designs with complex iconography on myriad ceramic forms, the art of Central Panama (ca. 200 BCE-1400 CE) is highly distinctive compared to other ......
The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of the bloody mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. Bound out of Richmond, Virginia, the Creole was seized in a violent takeover by its captives in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in November 1841. Sailing en route to a New Orleans slave-auction block, nineteen of the captives mutinied. Led by ......
Indigenous Catholics and Father Perez's Revolutionary Church
Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest brings to life a classically misunderstood picaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, "Patriarch" Joaquin Perez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Perez's controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in ......
Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 examines anti-Catholic leaders and movements during the Mexican Revolution, an era that resulted in a constitution denying the Church political rights. Anti-Catholic Mexicans recognized a common enemy in a politically active Church in a predominantly Catholic nation. Many books have elucidated ......
Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940 examines anti-Catholic leaders and movements during the Mexican Revolution, an era that resulted in a constitution denying the Church political rights. Anti-Catholic Mexicans recognized a common enemy in a politically active Church in a predominantly Catholic nation. Many books have elucidated ......
