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"All Power to the Imagination!"
Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture from the Student Movement to the Greens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“All Power to the Imagination!” is a history of the counterculture’s immensely influential role in West German cultural and political life. Sabine von Dirke opens with an examination of nascent countercultural movements in West Germany during the 1950s. She then moves to a nuanced account of the...
One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Rare voices in fiction, the lives of the working class consume this collection. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist brings to life the narratives of midwestern blue-collar workers. In these sixteen stories, author Dustin M. Hoffman invites readers to peek...
The Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state.
In The Inevitable Bandstand,...
JewAsian
Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories...
by Melvin R. Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A classic of ethnobotany, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region has been enlarged for this Bison Book edition with thirty drawings, by Bellamy Parks Jansen, of plants discussed by Gilmore. The taxonomic glossary has been updated as well. Readers will find here, conveniently described,...
In Trace of TR
A Montana Hunter's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
As a student of American history, as a hunter, horseman, and former Marine, and as someone passionate about the West, Dan Aadland had long felt a kinship with Theodore Roosevelt. One day, on a single-footing horse, lever-action rifle under his knee, Aadland set out to become acquainted with TR as...
by Gregory D. Smithers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the United States and Australia from the Age of Revolution to the...
by Kristine Stenzel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia...
by Elena Mihas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic...
by Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award in Mexico for Best Research Work in Anthropology
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia,...
by Jaime E. Rodriguez O.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by *Choice
Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830* examines the nature of Spanish American political culture by reevaluating the political theory, institutions, and practices of the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case studies with...
Lefty O'Doul
Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From San Francisco to the Ginza in Tokyo, Lefty O’Doul relates the untold story of one of baseball’s greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan.
Lefty O’Doul (1897–1969) began his career on the sandlots of San Francisco and...
Beneficial Bombing
The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement—to...
by Mari Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Young Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watches the warring between tribes, the buffalo hunting, the daily routine—and shows it all in pictures drawn...