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  • The Legacy of Conquest

    The Unbroken Past of the American West

    by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Ph.D. ...
    "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Not Just Green, Not Just White

    Race, Justice, and Environmental History

    Edited by Mary E. Mendoza, Traci Brynne Voyles ...
    Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and critical engagement with the nonhuman world, provides a fertile context for understanding racism and ongoing colonialism as power structures in the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Translating Past to Present

    Interpreters in the American West and Beyond

    Edited by Andrew Offenburger, Patricia Nelson Limerick ...
    The act of interpretation has been central to Western American history. At every historical juncture, interpreters were active and present—conveying meaning between people speaking mutually unintelligible languages, bartering for goods and power along borders, and translating intentions from gestures, acts, and words. While research on interpreters within zones of cultural exchange has grown among ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Friends & Mothers

    A Novel

    by Louise Limerick ...
    "Never again will you walk past a group of moms having coffee and cake without dying to know what's going on beneath the surface." — The Sydney Morning HeraldFive women, all of them mothers, meet regularly for tea and cake. Their lives are consumed by children, school drop-offs, and casual conversations; so their respite at the Vista Cafe is a welcome retreat.Until the day that Evelyn's baby ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shadows at Dawn

    An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

    by Karl Jacoby ...
    A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American historyIn April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools

    Confronting Colonial Language Policies Across the Americas

    Edited by Nicholas Limerick, Jamie L. Schissel, Mario López-Gopar, Vilma Huerta Cordova ...
    The effects of colonialism in education and society have deep and difficult legacies. This book argues that it is necessary to better understand the deep roots of colonialism in order to realize justice and overturn forms of oppression in education policy, in classrooms, or in family and community-based education. Highlighting research from across Abya-Yala with examples from various parts of ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Sonoita Plain

    Views from a Southwestern Grassland

    by Carl E. Bock, Jane H. Bock, Stephen E. Strom ...
    Far to the south of Arizona’s sprawling metropolises, a rolling savanna of grass, oak, and mesquite rises above the surrounding deserts. The Sonoita Plain is a basin of a thousand square miles bracketed by mountains, a land once the domain of cowboys that is now more and more the focus of exurban development. These southwestern grasslands are both typical of and distinct from those of the Great ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Trails

    Toward a New Western History

    by B01 ...
    This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear. Some historians call it a revolution.The Trails Conference in Santa Fe, a 1989 gathering organized by “new” western historian Patricia Nelson Limerick, spawned widespread media coverage and academic debate and provided the impetus for this volume ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Western Paradox

    A Conservation Reader

    by Bernard DeVoto ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the ForewordBernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West

    Edited by L. Goodchild, R. Jonsen, P. Limerick, D. Longanecker ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West is the first regional public policy study of American higher education. Presidents of the Western State Commission for Higher Education and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, alongside nationally recognized policy analysts and current western campus presidents, provosts, and administrators, tackle seven ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Limericks of Love : Heartfelt Verses for Valentine's Day

    by Just Limericks ...
    Get ready for a collection of playful, heartwarming limericks that celebrate love, friendship, and the lighter side of life! Limericks of Love is packed with charming verses perfect for Valentine's Day, whether you're in the mood for sweet romance, light-hearted laughs, or a little anti-Valentine's fun.Each limerick brings something unique: quirky tales of love's adventures, funny moments, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is a Western?

    Region, Genre, Imagination

    by Josh Garrett-Davis ...
    There’s “western,” and then there’s “Western”—and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination. Part cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books, music, and other cultural texts brings a fresh perspective to long-studied topics. ... Read more

    $15.89 USD