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Consisting of three rare documents about miracles during the second half of the eighteenth century, each accompanied by an introductory essay, this study explores these divine signs and the move to change the role of the church and religion in colonial life.

Reconstructs the history of Mexico's ""Religionero"" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada. A reconstruction of the revolt and a reappraisal of its significance, this book places ordinary Catholics at the centre of Mexico's fragmented nineteenth-century secularization and Catholic revival.

Examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

Ty Hale, a young corporal from New Mexico, finds himself alone in the middle of a grain field in Normandy after being knocked unconscious. Stunned and overwhelmed by visions of his grandfather and the simple life of the New Mexico prairie he has left behind, Ty stumbles onto a country estate and inextricably into the lives of its inhabitants.

In his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a Horse, Evans shares his favourite horse stories for all to enjoy.

Explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: ""Owens and the World"", ""Owens and California"", and ""The Novels"".

Examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people. Contributors cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics.

In this expansive and engaging narrative William Acree guides readers through the deep history of popular entertainment before turning to circus culture and rural dramas that celebrated the countryside on stage.

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucania, Chile's southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucania - because of its status as a separate nation-state - became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic.

In 1837 Mariquita Sanchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Juan Manuel de Rosas's version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose self-imposed exile. Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history for both scholars and students.

Examines the cult of La Santa Muerte's role in people's lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with the illicit. These essays move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico.

Pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet - the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place, history, and people, especially those left voiceless due to violence or discrimination.

Offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821. People demanding rights faced military defenders of power and privilege - the legacy of 1808 that shaped Mexican history.

Explores the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. This book offers an in-depth analysis of one of the crucial processes that allowed Venezuela to become one of the first regions in Spanish America to declare independence from Iberia and turn into an influential force for South American independence.

Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.

Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.

These seven original essays offer the first ethnohistorical interpretation of Spanish-Indian interaction from Florida to California. How did indigenous peoples fare under Spanish rule from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries? The contributors to this book discuss the social, demographic, and economic impacts of Spanish colonization on Indians.

Issues of identity and authenticity present perennial challenges to both Native Americans and critics of their art. Vickers examines the long history of dehumanizing depictions of Native Americans while discussing such purveyors of stereotypes as the Puritans, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Hollywood.

Jewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in the new Jewish Latin America series.

Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico, burst into international news in January 1994 when insurgents, given a voice in the communiques of Subcomandante Marcos, took control of the capital and other key towns. Worldwide, people wanted to know the answer to one question: why had revolutionaries taken over a Mexican state? No other study of Chiapas answers that question as thoroughly as does this book.

First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture.