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  • Fleshing the Spirit

    Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives

    Edited by Elisa Facio, Irene Lara ...
    Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood experience” as a site of knowledge. They argue that spirituality—something quite different from ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Enduring Legacies

    Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado

    Edited by Arturo J. Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, Reiland Rabaka ...
    Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. Enduring Legacies expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited this region.Addressing the dearth of scholarship on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Sex and Social Justice

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    What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice has created? In Sex and Social Justice, Martha Nussbaum delves into these questions and emerges ... Read more

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  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard ...
    On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not ... Read more

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  • Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

    The American Medicine Show

    by Ann Anderson ...
    Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," ... Read more

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  • The World Rushed In

    The California Gold Rush Experience

    by J. S. Holliday ...
    When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every ... Read more

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  • Glamour

    Women, History, Feminism

    by Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition?This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. Using a ... Read more

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  • Homesteading the Plains

    Toward a New History

    by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo ...
    2018 Nebraska Book Award2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by ChoiceHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public’s perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars’ harshly ... Read more

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  • Going for Gold

    The History of Newmont Mining Corporation

    by Mr. Jack H. Morris ...
    Details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains the second largest gold miner in the worldJack H. Morris asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven industry. We learn how the company’s founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa’s largest gold company ... Read more

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  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women, The Young Lords: 1969-1976

    by Iris Morales ...
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a "story within a story" told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a people's movement for justice and fought the "revolution within the revolution" ... Read more

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  • California through Native Eyes

    Reclaiming History

    by William J. Bauer, Jr. Jr. ...
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    Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives.Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer ... Read more

    $26.99 USD