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Santa Rita del Cobre
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 21.50The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans successively mined copper for 200 years at Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 with the Spanish discovery of native copper, the Chino Mines followed industry developments first as a network of underground mines and ultimately as part of the multinational Kennecott Copper Corporation's international open-pit... more...
Walking Salt Lake City
Wilderness Press 2012; US$ 16.95A new title in the Walking series, Walking: Salt Lake City is geared to first-time visitors to Salt Lake City-- and to local residents. Both will enjoy the history and tales about places they thought they knew, and will be surprised to find walking destinations they may not have considered before. Each tour in the stylish, portable format touches... more...
Juggling Identities
Columbia University Press 2009; US$ 54.99Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest. Critiquing scholars who challenge the cultural authenticity of these individuals, Seth D. Kunin builds a solid link between the crypto-Jews of New Mexico and their Spanish ancestors who secretly maintained... more...
The Immigration and Settlement of Asian Indians in Phoenix, Arizona, 1965-2011
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 189.95A sociological examination of the immigration patterns of Asian Indians to the suburbs Phoenix, Arizona from 1965 to the present. It explores their housing patterns, as well as methods of overcoming racial, ethnic, and class barriers to their acceptance as American citizens, while also trying to hold onto their native born heritage. There is a lengthy... more...
In the Country of Empty Crosses
Trinity University Press 2012; US$ 24.95Arturo?s Madrid?s homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those... more...
The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona
University of North Texas Press 2012; US$ 23.96Arizona Historical Dictionary
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 209.95Schlup and Paschen have compiled the most thorough reference guide on Arizonas local history. Marking the centennial anniversary of the states entrance into the union, this book provides more than a century worth of information for researchers seeking knowledge about its rich history. The book traces the history of Arizona from the Wild... more...
Militarizing the Border
Texas A&M University Press 2012; US$ 38.95As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy , focusing... more...
Adversity Is My Angel
TCU Press 2009; US$ 15.95Adversity is My Angel traces the astounding life of Raul H. Castro, first and only Hispanic governor of Arizona, through his childhood as a Mexican immigrant in a harsh land to his election as governor of the state and presidential appointments as ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia, and Argentina. It chronicles how he overcame personal and racial... more...
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
Texas A&M University Press 2011; US$ 35.00The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe,... more...









