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One Blanket and Ten Days Rations
An account of Companies A and I, First Infantry, New Mexico Volunteers, a tough, primarily Hispanic force that pursued Apache raiders through the rugged mountains of southeastern Arizona Territory from 1864 to 1866. Illustrated.
The Latino Nineteenth Century
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Historical Latinidades and Archival Encounters -- 1. The Errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and Migration's Intention -- 2. Historicizing Nineteenth-Century Latina/o Textuality -- 3. On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelphia -- 4. From Union Officers to Cuban Rebels: The Story of the Brothers Cavada and Their American Civil Wars -- 5. Almost-Latino Literature: Approaching Truncated Latinidades
Writing to Cuba
In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States. Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo Lazo offers new readings of works by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Clemente Zenea, Pedro Santacilia, and Miguel T. Tolon. Lazo argues that to understand these writers and their publications, we must move beyond nation-based models of litera...
In the Mean Time
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico’s territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, “in the mean time,” to protect their property and liberty. Erin Murrah-Mandril demonstrates that the U.S. government deployed a colonization of time in the Southwest to insure political and economic underdevelopment in the region and to justify excluding Mexican Americans from narratives of U.S. progress. In In the Mean Time, Murrah-Mandril contends that Mexican American authors challenged modern conceptions of empty, homogenous, linear, and progressive time to contest U.S. colonization. Taking a cue fro...
Dirty War, Clean Hands
The investigations continue and Garzon is still attempting to establish the full extent of the relationship between the former Spanish Government and the GAL's death squads."--Jacket.
Official Gazette
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Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies
