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These documents cover thirteen major peace contacts and initiatives that took place during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.

A literary biography tracing Hamlin Garland's shift in mid-career from the harsh verisimilitude of Prairie Folks and Prairie Songs to a romanticizing of the Far West, and from ardent espousal of the principles of "veritism" to violent denunciations of nat

Henry Dietz investigates Lima's poor during the "revolution" of General Juan Velasco (1968-1975), examining both the structural conditions promoting poverty and the individual consequences of being poor.

The life of William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter, pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter, and first governor of Colorado Territory.

John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman.

How average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worked for peace in the late twentieth century.

A biography of the first native Texan to serve as the state's governor.

Draws on thirty-five years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change across five centuries.

These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976.

This volume, originally published as a supplement to The Texas Quarterly in 1959, contains a collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.

Laurence Walker chronicles the constant demands that people have made on forest resources in the South.

Essays on the conceptual issues underlying the battle for academic freedom.

An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.

An introduction to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration and to the LBJ Library's more than thirty million separate documents.

This book explores the intellectual and personal relations among John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Walter Pater, three figures important in the development of nineteenth-century English thought and culture.

The lives of a group of persons living within the community who had been diagnosed at one time or another as mentally retarded.

This book presents the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the development of the Peruvian revolution of 1968.

In this volume, experts from several disciplines explore the adaptation process of prehistoric societies in the Arenal region of Costa Rica, an area that has experienced numerous volcanic eruptions during the last several millennia.

An examination of the role, operation, and contribution of the device most often relied on by local and state governments for dealing with intergroup problems-the human-relations commission.

This provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine.

In this book, the author traces the rise of awareness of the essential unity of the Western Hemisphere in international affairs.

How men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment.

This comprehensive case study examines every aspect of security cooperation in the Western Hemisphere in the mid-twentieth century.

Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.

How a steady growth in arms sales places global security and stability in jeopardy.

Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution.

A study of 138 novels and what they can tell us about the image of American politics in the twentieth century.

A compelling study of a Guatemalan village, in the wake of civil war and genocide, facing an uneasy transition marked by gang violence, paramilitary security committees, and other power struggles.

This book examines the full range of the theatre activity of "Stage Yankees," not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage.