An analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change…

Focuses on the possibilities of being at home on the earth: finding place, reinhabitation, and becoming native. This title…

Brings together some of the country's leading scholars of immigration and ethnicity to examine the lives and trajectories of…

Chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the…

A series of Chinese commentaries on the USA, including extracts from the travel diaries of 19th-century Chinese diplomats, a…

Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. This title studies these…

Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual…

Looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from…

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Examining the ecological teachings embedded in both Western and non-Western world views, this work asks how the world's many…

This account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture explores the way in which 19th-century visual experiences, such as…

San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities - its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism,…

Tells the story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman. This book renders the theme of mankind's struggle…

An analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, this study is a critique of the meaning of modernity in…

The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time.…

Offers an account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies. Part autobiography, part film analysis, and part social…

This work looks at the massacre at the village of Oradour in 1944, and how the French State has preserved the entire ruins…

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A history of immigration laws and practices in the United States. It reveals immigration detentions that are understood not…

Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media since the late 1970s, this provides a detailed…

Addresses the problems of urban decline and suburban sprawl, transportation, city politics, open space, and the character…

Looks at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties…

Documents state and federal plans to flood the largest, most fertile valley in Mendocino County to send water south to Los…

A comprehensive guide to William Langland's fourteenth-century masterpiece, "Piers Plowman".…

Challenges the dominant legal history of American Indians and their tribes - a history that concedes far too much power to…

Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the…

Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional…