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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.

The autobiographical account of a 19th century British man's childhood on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua.

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.

The first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" ima

This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.

';Perry undertakes the enormous task of analyzing the historical workings of the reservation system, using the San Carlos Apache as a case study.' The American Historical Review ';Indian reservations' were the United States' ultimate solution to the ';problem' of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. The San Carlos Apache Reservation of Arizona provides the lens through which Perry views reservation issues. One of the oldest and largest reservations, its location in a minerals- and metals-rich area has often brought it into conflict with powerful private and governmental interests. Indeed, Perry argues that the reservation system is best understood in terms of competition for resources among interest groups through time within the hegemony of the state. He asserts that full control over their resourcesand hence, over their liveswould address many of the Apache's contemporary economic problems.