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Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource.

This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values.

This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886-from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude.

How the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy.

A reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian.

Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504-1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades.

A collection of sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales from Mexican Americans in urban Los Angeles.

This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.

The first study of this rich tradition, filled with details about plays, authors, artists, companies, houses, directors, and theatrical circuits.

The Sao Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country's leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.

John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.

The biography of a man who left his mark on world commerce through the development of a large cotton marketing firm, and who made an equally important impress on international economics and politics through special and vital service in the State Department during three crucial years of world history.

The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.

This book tells the story of four men and the county rings they shaped in South Texas during the Progressive Era.

A biography of the author of The Man Without a Country that vividly portrays his fascinating and often turbulent era.

The complete story of the Taft Ranch from its inception in 1880 to its dissolution in 1930.

System and Succession provides a comparative analysis of the social composition of national political leadership in the United States, Russia, Germany, and Mexico.

Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades.

Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt.

Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky's revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer.

This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting p

A reconstruction of Apachean history and culture that sheds much light on the origins, dispersions, and relationships of Apache groups. Mention ';Apaches,' and many Anglo-Americans picture the ';marauding savages' of western movies or impoverished reservations beset by a host of social problems. But, like most stereotypes, these images distort the complex history and rich cultural heritage of the Apachean peoples, who include the Navajo, as well as the Western, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Kiowa Apaches. In this pioneering study, Richard Perry synthesizes the findings of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct the Apachean past and offer a fuller understanding of the forces that have shaped modern Apache culture. While scholars generally agree that the Apacheans are part of a larger group of Athapaskan-speaking peoples who originated in the western Subarctic, there are few archaeological remains to prove when, where, and why those northern cold dwellers migrated to the hot deserts of the American Southwest. Using an innovative method of ethnographic reconstruction, however, Perry hypothesizes that these nomadic hunters were highly adaptable and used to exploiting the resources of a wide range of mountainous habitats. When changes in their surroundings forced the ancient Apacheans to expand their food quest, it was natural for them to migrate down the ';mountain corridor' formed by the Rocky Mountain chain. Perry is the first researcher to attempt such an extensive reconstruction, and his study is the first to deal with the full range of Athapaskan-speaking peoples. His method will be instructive to students of other cultures who face a similar lack of historical and archaeological data.

A study of one of Byron's most notable poetic dramas.

This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru's peasant population in the 1960s.

A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.