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This study of ethnicity, identity, and nation-building has a new introduction that shows the continuing validity of the book's approach to ethnography, ecology, culture and politics. The authors investigated two Alpine villages only a mile apart in the same mountain valley.

On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners. This title demonstrates that in its far-reaching repercussions, it was the most significant event in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Wild dolphins are an elusive subject for behavioral studies. This title assembles a variety of discoveries about dolphins. It surveys some of the most interesting research on dolphin behavior and also offers lay readers a look at the scientific mind at work.

This text provides an examination of "mizuko kuyo", a Japanese religious ritual for aborted foetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published accounts of foetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual atonement for women who chose to have abortions.

What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care? This title examines these questions. It explores the meaning and politics of competence in modern American medicine.

A study of early 20th-century literary and artistic culture. The text focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years.

The Sabras were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s. This title addresses their lives, thought, and role in Jewish history. It provides an analysis of accepted norms and an impressive appraisal of the Sabra.

Set in a small town near San Francisco during World War II, this novel relates the confusions, dislocations, and brutality of war as they affect the home front. We see events through the eyes of a novice teacher, an abandoned boy, two young girls and a sailor scarred by his time in the war zone.

How can it be said that debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty to those of equality, principles of equality to those of fairness, and principles of fairness to those of integrity, when we share these principles? This text challenges the portrayal of debates.

The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937.

This collection of essays analyze a variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history. The articles analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary game but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas.

Weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, re-evaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement. This book presents four case studies, each exploring the impertinent elements which inspired the surrealists.

Foretells the world's next great energy transformation: the shift to clean, renewable energy sources. Chronicling this extraordinary technological revolution, this title looks at the various industries that can make it possible, and the trillion-dollar benefits Americans can enjoy by choosing pollution-free energy and transportation.

Interprets a much revered chapter in Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees. This title scrutinizes the Mossad's mode of operation, its ideology and politics, its structure and history, and its collective human profile.

This volume takes a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender dynamics and political attitudes.

Grand Island lies off the south shore of Lake Superior. It was once home to a sizable community of Chippewa Indians who lived in harmony with the land and with each other. This title charts the plight of the Chippewa as white culture steadily encroaches, forcing the native people off the island and dispersing their community on the mainland.

Offers a context for understanding the prolific fourth-century Christian theologian John Chrysostom and the religious and social world in which he lived. This book analyzes two highly rhetorical treatises by this early church father attacking the phenomenon of 'spiritual marriage.'

The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. This book is a treatment of the significance of Greek architectural sculpture. It provides an informative tour of many dimensions of Greek public buildings - especially temples, tombs, and treasuries.

In 1880s San Francisco the "Slasher" has been leaving the corpses of his naked female victims in Union Square, with a single spade playing card on the bodies. Ambrose Bierce blames the killings on his old enemy, the Southern Pacific Railroad.

During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers". He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood. This text brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage.

This reinterpretation of the Mexican Revolution, based on evidence obtained in Mexican and American archives and on the historical literature of recent years is available here in the tenth anniversary edition, complete with a new preface.

More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. This title intends to illuminate the immigration phenomenon.

Since the late 1970s, a sub genre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the popular fiction market. This book focuses on this proliferation of women writers of detective fiction, offering a book-length study of the historical and societal changes that fueled this popularity.

This journal traces the contours of cultural perceptions East and West, welcoming the reader into the intimate geography of individual lives. It explores the human spaces surrounding language, landscape, literacy and iliteracy, music, dance, the cadance of ancient craft, and family relationships.

Do survival instincts have anything to do with our architectural choices - our liking for a certain room, a special stairway, a plaza in a particular city? This book discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing - and useful to survival - since ancient times.

An in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. The author cites several instances in the early 1800s of craftsmen-builders who shifted their identity to that of professional architects.

This text collects together the author's essays on psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence, providing arguments about how and why psychoanalytic approaches can deepen the sociological perspective.

When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. Presenting an analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, this title uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996.

Washington, DC, is a city of powerful symbols - from the dominance of the Capitol dome to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a tour of America's capital, unravelling the complex symbolism of the city and explores its meaning for US national consciousness.

An account of family and community life that describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. It locates Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people.