Two lovers go on one final road trip through the American desert, hoping that they can outrun life itself. Flash-fiction master Grant Faulkner and punk photographer Gail Butensky have partnered to create this unique narrative made up of stories alongside edge-of-the-world photography. The book tells of two lovers taking a reckless, searching ......
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 ......
This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today. Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of "transnationalism" in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has ......
This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today. Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of "transnationalism" in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has ......
Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943
Horowitz's acclaimed study examines the role of civic associations in the creation of Buenos Aires' social world in the early twentieth century, especially the part they played in the development of the sense of barrio. The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires ......
Reprint from hardcover by late, storied senator, mentor, and political pioneer Fred Harris. Served the state of Oklahoma in Washington in the sixties and seventies, ran for President in 1972 and 1976. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Rights Commission, famously created by President Lyndon Johnson following the terrible riots, ......
Ian Jacobs' work brings together a multidisciplinary set of insights into the history of Guerrero and its inhabitants--including indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans, Asians, and eventually peoples of mixed ancestry-- as they moved through different epochs of the region's history. Until recently, Guerrero's past has suffered from relative ......
This corrective history of the western hemispheric suffrage movements of the nineteenth and twentieth century sheds light on the cooperative nature of the women's efforts to gain the vote across geographic and cultural divides. The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the ......
Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
Noted Montana rancher and world renowned agriculture expert Gilles Stockton's polemic confronts the divide between urban and rural America. In Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the "rural-urban divide" and ......
