The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of Juana Catarina Romero (1837-1915) shatters many of the stereotypes of nineteenth-century women and provides a new perspective of women's national ......
In the early eastern theater of the American Civil War, the Northern and Southern armies saw little of combat and little of each other, with most of their military intelligence more akin to propaganda than objective fact. However, by 1862, both sides knew through bloody experience how the other could fight, though gaps in knowledge of the other's ......
The Country for Me is the first full biography of Joel Palmer (1810-81), born in Canada to American parents, who played a central role in the political and economic shaping of Oregon. Having traveled on the Oregon Trail three times, he wrote a popular trail guidebook used by later emigrants. Palmer's experience in public life and government ......
Paper Bridges Between Franz Boas and Russian Anthropology
Anthropology is inseparable from writing, whether in field diaries, letters, articles, or books. Among these writings, letters form paper bridges-holding a special place as material artifacts uniquely capable of building scholarly communities and sustaining relationships with field collaborators long after the fieldwork is completed. The story of ......
Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park hosts more than four million visitors annually, a number that underscores both the national park's immense popularity and its limits. Large numbers of visitors mean air pollution from car emissions, noise pollution that drowns out the sounds of nature, and destroyed habitat - especially near campgrounds and crowded hiking ......
History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest
Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it "Utopia on the Prairie," home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnographic analyses, Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul tell the story of what happens when a small, ......
A History of Dakota and Lakota Family and Kinship on the Standing Rock Reservation,1794-2022
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual efforts that made survival possible on Standing Rock, one of the most understudied reservations despite ......
Social Upheaval and Democracy in Revolutionary Mexico
In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Pina shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor confined to the ballot box. Focusing on the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20, Pina explores how citizens forged a substantive democratic culture in the crucible of three successive social upheavals that shook the ......
Named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year by Pima County Public Library On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley ......
