In compelling, often stunning black-and-white photographs, The Weather and a Place to Live portrays the manmade landscape of the western United States. Here we come face to face with the surreal intersection of the American appetite for suburban development and the resistant, rolling, arid country of the desert West. Steven B. Smith's ......
'Romney's unique vantage point is the strongest draw of this narrative: Romney and his family lived much of their life in the Mexican Mormon colonies. But the narrative's value is much broader and deeper than just that. Romney's insights into Mexican politics and personalities, and his view of the course of history from inside rather than from ......
Click 'Additional Materials' for downloadable samples "This is a sound purchase for college and university libraries with women's studies or American West programs as well as for large public libraries." --BOOKLIST "This is the first encyclopedia to focus on this neglected group. . . . There is a clear need for this encyclopedia . . . ......
Asian Americans are proportionally the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. This volume offers a framework for the conceptual and methodological development of Asian American psychology and provides future research directions by experts in the field.
Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
In the 'dispute of the New World' many eighteenth and nineteenth century historians, naturalists, and moral philosophers from Europe and the Americas sought either to confirm or refute the views of the French naturalist Buffon, who had contended that the New World was in fact geologically new. This book maintains that 'dispute' was also a debate ......
This volume pays homage to a sample of women poets through a variety of critical approaches shaped in the deep soil of the Americas. Contributors offer critical readings of the poetry of women including Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo and Audre Lorde.
Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. This book addresses this neglected topic with original research covering a wide spectrum, from sexual behavior to ......
Virgin Anazazi Architecture, Ceramics, and Burials
Focuses on one of the sites investigated by M.R. Harrington in the 1920s, to carve out from the misleading connotations of "Lost City" a concept of a site that was a community, Main Ridge, and examines it for indications of its size and its organization, as well as evidence of social differentiation among the buried population, and its involvement ......
