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  • Boss Rule in South Texas

    The Progressive Era

    de Evan Anders ...
    Four men played leading roles in the political drama that unfolded in South Texas during the first decades of this century:James B. Wells, who ruled as boss of Cameron County and served as leading conservative spokesman of the Democratic Party in Texas;Archer (Archie) Parr, whose ruthless tactics and misuse of public funds in Duval County established him as one of the most notoriously corrupt ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • House of Rain

    Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

    de Craig Childs ...
    An eye-opening historic guidebook that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to put a light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest.The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    de J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Leer más

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  • The Five Civilized Tribes

    de Grant Foreman ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were striving in the years before the Civil War to found schools, churches, and towns, as well as to ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The WPA Guide to New Mexico

    The Colorful State

    de Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Dukes of Duval County

    The Parr Family and Texas Politics

    de Anthony R. Carrozza ...
    The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence of the Parr political machine peaked during the 1948 senatorial primary, when election officials found the infamous Ballot Box 13 six days after ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • La Calle

    Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

    de Lydia R. Otero ...
    On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Listening to Rosita

    The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

    de Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn’t hurt.When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America

    The Keys to City Hall

    Edición de Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy
    Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for example, offer laboratories to examine electoral trends in urban politics. Cities are facing varied predicaments. Boston was rocked by the bombing of the marathon on April 15. Detroit is roiled by being the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy, and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • On Strike and on Film

    Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America

    de Ellen R. Baker ...
    In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines — an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Imagined Frontiers

    Contemporary America and Beyond

    de Carl Abbott ...
    We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Environmental Planning Handbook

    de Tom Daniels ...
    Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their water pure, and their people and property safe from climate and environmental hazards? Newly updated, The Environmental Planning Handbook gives local governments, nonprofits, and citizens the guidance they need to create an action plan they can ... Leer más

    $160.99 USD