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Gbenga Adesina
Death Does not End at the Sea

The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryIn Gbenga Adesina's debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures emba…

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After Oil Collective,
The Renewable Normal

Provocations

The Renewable Normal confronts the aesthetic, affective, and political dimensions of the transition to renewable energy. Written by the After Oil Collective, the book examines how renewable energy is bein…

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Ricardo J. Alvarez-Pimentel
Counterrevolutionary Women

Engendering Latin America

Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City's upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter state-mandated secular education and its perceived c…

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Ricardo J. Alvarez-Pimentel
Counterrevolutionary Women

Engendering Latin America

Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City's upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter state-mandated secular education and its perceived c…

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Walt Bachman
Northern Slave, Black Dakota

Born into slavery in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his enslaver sold her, Godfrey…

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Nicholas Barron
Applying Anthropology, Assembling Community

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

In Applying Anthropology, Assembling Community Nicholas Barron examines how members of the borderlands Pascua Yaqui Tribe selectively and creatively incorporated anthropologists, and anthropological resea…

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Laura J. Beard
John S. McClintock and Deadwood

Engaging Deadwood's history through the lens of her great-great-uncle John S. McClintock's legendary 1939 memoir, Pioneer Days in the Black Hills, Laura J. Beard shines light on the power of mythology to …

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Steve Bialostok
Playing to the End

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

In Playing to the End , Steve Bialostok immerses readers in the vibrant world of the card room at Denver's Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center, where a group of older Black men gather to play dominoes, e…

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Sandra E. Bonura
The Zoo Lady

The struggling San Diego Zoo received a miracle in 1927: Belle Jennings Benchley, a middle-aged, newly divorced mother, reluctantly accepted a temporary job she openly "dreaded." Small in statur…

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Mark Boxell
Crude State

Oil companies sank the first commercial oil wells in Indian Territory between 1895 and 1901. Crude State traces the origins of the industry that sprang up in the aftermath, focusing on the settler culture…

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Carol Bradley
Striped Reckoning

Striped Reckoning charts the shocking history of exotic big cats in the United States and chronicles how the struggle to drive a trio of breeders out of business and rehome their nearly two hundred captiv…

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Janet Farrell Brodie
The First Atomic Bomb

America's Public Lands

Named a 2024 Southwest Book of the Year by Pima County Public LibraryOn July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end …

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Brian K. Burton
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields

Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Both demonstrated the height of power …

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James Card
Ice Tribes

Outdoor Lives

In Ice Tribes James Card makes the case that ice fishing is much more than an oddball outdoor activity: It's a sport of strategy, stoicism, and analytical skill. It can also be a sport of camaraderie, a w…

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David Chapin
Freshwater Passages

A fur trader and explorer, Peter Pond (1740--1807) became one of the first English-speaking men to see much of North America, traveling its rivers and lakes from Long Island Sound to Great Slave Lake in C…

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Lisa G. Dill
Around the Bend

The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States---and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and ag…

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Jason H. Dormady
Conflict and Correspondence

Confluencias

In the decades following the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Guadalajara faced immense demographic and economic transformation, stunning both longtime residents and new arrivals. The city's population nearly tri…

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Richard Doyle, Trey Conner
Shut Up and Chant

Provocations

Let's face it. Whatever attention the ubiquitous brain rot of the smartphone dosed on social media fails to exploit, the AI prompt will surely slurp up as global markets and technologies get in cahoots to…

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Dan Du
This World in a Teacup

Studies in Pacific Worlds

Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, making the young country a coffee-drinking nation. In truth,…

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Susan Alette Dublin
Malevolent Spirits Along the Hudson Valley

Although the seeds of alcohol use and abuse were sown during the colonial period in the Northeast, they remain a problem in Indian Country to this day. Malevolent Spirits Along the Hudson Valley follows t…

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