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Iconic images of Hispanic life that tell an allegorical and deeply personal story of Mexican history and spirituality.

The first extensive treatment in over thirty years of the iconography displayed on public monuments in an important Mesoamerican city in Veracruz, Mexico.

From the East Los Angeles barrio to international stardom, Los Lobos traces the musical evolution of a platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning band that has ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from traditional Mexican

Presents W Lee Pappy O'Daniel, one of America's first celebrities to cross the line from entertainment to political office. This book captures the essence of the real man through photographs taken by employees of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Showcasing one of the world's largest private collections of African American cookbooks, ranging from rare nineteenth-century texts to modern classics by Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor, this lavishly illustrated collection speaks volumes about America's food culture.

Leading authorities provide the first state-of-the-art study of the history, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.

In the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and Helen Levitt, this photo essay of a rural African American community tells a universal story of the human condition.

In many modern armies the religious soldier is suspect. Civilians and officers alike wonder if such a soldier might represent a potential fifth column. This concern is especially prominent in the public discourse over the presence of religious Orthodox Jews serving in the Israel Defense Forces. Will they obey their commanding officer or their rabbi? With research collected over almost a decade, including hundreds of hours of interviews, Elisheva Rosman examines this question of loyalties and reveals how religious soldiers negotiate a place for themselves in an institution whose goals and norms sometimes conflict with those of Orthodox Judaism.For God and Country? focuses on the pre-service study programs available to religious conscripts. Many journalists and scholars in Israel are suspicious of the student-soldiers who participate in these programs, but in fact, as Rosman's research demonstrates, the pre-service study programs serve as mediating structures between the demands of Religious Zionism and the demands of the Israel Defense Forces and do not encourage their students to disobey orders. This was especially apparent during the disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Many in Israeli society predicted student-soldiers would defy their orders, per the instruction of their religious leaders, but this did not happen as expected. In high profile cases such as this and in matters encountered daily by religious soldiers-the mixing of the sexes, for instance-Rosman has discovered that the pre-service study programs can successfully serve as agents of civil society, both able to curb the military's efforts to meddle in civilian affairs and vice versa.

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary and over 115,000 copies sold, here is the essential, entertaining guide to speaking Spanish like a native, with a new preface by the author.

The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. This book represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it - Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and Huitzilopochtli, the Southern Hummingbird.

From sixteenth-century European Wunderkammern to the veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the Latinization of the United States, this dynamic and innovative book explores how the circulation of objects between Europe and the Americas has profoundly re

With new research on building programs in political, religious, and domestic settings in the United States and Europe, this collection of essays offers a fresh look at postwar modernism and the role that architecture played in constructing modern identiti

This collection rethinks old paradigms and widely accepted assumptions about the Arab response to fascism and Nazism, bringing to light Arab support for the Allied forces during World War II and its effect on the fate of the Middle East.

In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region's commitment to a neoliberal economic model. This book offers the study of debate over CAFTA, tracing the agreement's drafting, its passage, and its aftermath across Central America.

Exploring how political sentiments, popular desires, and social anxieties have been reflected in movies from the Dead End Kids serial to the ghetto action flicks of the 1990s, this book offers the first full-length study of the American film cycle and its relation to film genres and contemporary social issues

Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to understand how the people and spaces of New Spain were conceptu

';[Shindler] tells the story of her year wearing the crown while offering an incisive history and analysis of an always-controversial beauty contest.' Kirkus Reviews In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's ';ideal,' especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a special focus on Miss America's iconoclasts, including Bess Myerson (1945), the only Jewish Miss America; Yolande Betbeze (1951), who crusaded against the pageant's pinup image; and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987), a working-class woman from Michigan who wanted to merge her famous title with her work as an oncology nurse. Shindle's own account of her work as an AIDS activistand finding ways to circumvent the ';gown and crown' stereotypes of Miss America in order to talk honestly with high school students about safer sexilluminates both the challenges and the opportunities that keep young women competing to become Miss America. ';Kate Shindle's sharply observed, smart, and heartbreaking take on Miss America will be embraced by pageant super fans and should be required reading for everyone who's thought about what it takes to be America's ideal.' Jennifer Weiner, New York Times-bestselling author ';This memoir offers a captivating cultural history of the last 100 years in America through the lens of the Miss America Pageant and its white-knuckled struggle to remain relevant.' Library Journal

Now with a new afterword that surveys the "North African Spring" uprisings that roiled the region from 2011 to 2013, this is the most comprehensive history of North Africa to date, with accessible, in-depth chapters covering the pre-Islamic period through

Over two hundred images taken on set over twelve years, as well as commentary by Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, and others, create a behind-the-scenes portrait of a critically acclaimed feature film-Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

An introduction to using tree rings for climate research.

The concluding volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, begun in New Waw, Saharan Oasis and The Puppet, The Scarecrow completes a tale of greed and corruption that reveals the hollowness of tyrants.

The author considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twentieth-century sculpture in order to reveal the changing meaning and significance of the archaic in the modern world.

The first book in any language that examines political, economic, and social developments to provide a well-integrated study of this significant and eventful period in Paraguay's history.

In 2003, Lebanese writer Rashid al-Daif spent several weeks in Germany as part of the "West-East Divan" program, a cultural exchange effort meant to improve mutual awareness of German and Middle Eastern cultures. He was paired with German author Joachim Helfer, who then returned the visit to al-Daif in Lebanon. Following their time together, al-Daif published in Arabic a literary reportage of his encounter with Helfer in which he focuses on the German writer's homosexuality. His frank observations have been variously read as trenchant, naïve, or offensive. In response, Helfer provided an equally frank point-by-point riposte to al-Daif's text. Together these writers offer a rare exploration of attitudes toward sex, love, and gender across cultural lines. By stretching the limits of both fiction and essay, they highlight the importance of literary sensitivity in understanding the Other.Rashid al-Daif's "novelized biography" and Joachim Helfer's commentary appear for the first time in English translation in What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin. Also included in this volume are essays by specialists in Arabic and German literature that shed light on the discourse around sex between these two authors from different cultural contexts.

This volume explores the interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America through the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians.

With a new epilogue that discusses the revelations of former CIA employee Edward Snowden, this powerful accounting of intelligence abuses committed by the CIA from the Cold War through the war on terror reveals why such abuses and attempts to conceal them

Set in wild and woolly Texas and Mexico in the 1880s, this engrossing tale of a boy's search for his missing Momma is as full of colorful characters, folk wit and wisdom, and unexpected turns of events as the great American quest novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inka Empire, the largest political system that ever developed in the ancient New World.

How the routine methods of gathering news, rather than any hidden manipulators, determine the ideological character of the product.