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Explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American studies: What have Native peoples made of Christianity? By focusing on the annual pilgrimage of the Tohono O'odham to Magdalena in Sonora, Mexico, Schermerhorn examines how these indigenous people of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own.

Offers a transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary, "glocalized," American life. Xu Xi's quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator.

Delves into the personal stories and recollections of men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time.

Explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda. This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965-2015).

In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution.

Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars take up the challenge presented by Hamacher's theses.

Intersectional analyses of militarism that account for questions of race, class, and gender remain exceedingly rare. This book fills this gap by offering a comprehensive picture of how military values have permeated the civilian cultural sphere and by investigating connections between sexuality and militarism in the US since the late 1980s.

Focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly thirty years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts.

Explores the intersection between Cuba and America's pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cesar Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball in the seasons immediately following Castro's rise to power.

Brings together a wide ranging collection of baseball voices from the Deadball Era to the 1970s, including nine Hall of Famers, who take the reader onto the field, into the dugouts and clubhouses, and inside the minds of both players and managers.

A collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. In a way all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, evocative and unforgettable.

Weaves together personal narrative, historical research, cultural analysis, and social science to provide a sweeping investigation of the varied influence of overhead wires on the American landscape and the American mind.

Uses a transnational and interdisciplinary lens to analyse the fundamental and overlooked role played by artists and feminist activists in changing the ways female bodies were viewed and appropriated.

Argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and existence.

Explores the complex and dynamic ways in which emotions shape the post-World War II writing of the United States and argues that reading these narratives for their affects is to read for the emotional work that takes place between the part and the whole.

Examines the role of Christian evangelical movements in shaping American identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Christianity's fervent pursuit of Native American salvation, Hayes Peter Mauro discusses Anglo American artists influenced by Christian millenarianism, natural history, and racial science in America.

Explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim Crow-era segregation. Carrie Teresa argues that these black-centred publications framed celebrities as collective representations of the race who were then used to symbolize the cultural value of artistic expression.

Breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.

Provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans persons.

Illuminates how public memory of Jackie Robinson has undergone changes over the last sixty-plus years and moves his story beyond Robinson the baseball player, opening a new, broader interpretation of an otherwise seemingly convenient narrative to show how Robinson's legacy ultimately should both challenge and inspire public memory.

Explores the development of Taiwanese baseball and the influence of baseball on Taiwan's cultural identity in its colonial years and beyond as a clear departure from narratives of assimilation and resistance.

Offers an innovative and provocative look at how a natural disaster can dramatically influence every facet of human life. Focusing on the period from 1929 to 1962, Sheflin presents Dust Bowl disaster in a new light by evaluating its impact on both agricultural production and the people who fuelled it.

In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time. Jonathan Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Diaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city.

Examines the connection between baseball and advertising, as both constructors and reflectors of culture. Roberta Newman considers the simultaneous development of both industries, paying particular attention to the ways in which advertising spread the gospel of baseball and baseball helped develop consumers ready for advertising.

A comprehensive collection of Lacandon Maya oral literature, including narratives, myths, songs, and ritual speech.

Explores some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in contemporary discourse and practice in American cities.

Argues that steadily mounting pressure from abroad concerning human rights did, in fact, make Pinochet more vulnerable over time and helped stimulate Chile's movement to a liberal democracy.

Provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. The original and creative pedagogical method used in this textbook - teaching the Omaha language through Omaha culture - consists of a structured series of lesson plans.

“No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek.”—Wyoming Library Roundup“This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore. . . . It is a fascinating story and the author has told it well.”—Paul Engle, Chicago Tribune“Money Mountain mines as rich a vein of human interest, of solid accomplishment combined with picturesque skullduggery, as one is likely to find in all the annals of the western frontier. . . . Virtually every page bears evidence of patient researching through old newspaper files, court records, pioneer reminiscences and other obscure sources likely to throw light on events in and about the town during the fifteen years [1892–1907] when it was riding high. . . . Highly rewarding reading to anyone curious to know what manner of life was lived in the wide-open mining towns of the West.”—Oscar Lewis, New York Herald Tribune Books“A roaring story of a roaring town. . . . It’s an authentic contribution to the matter of the American West and dandy reading.”—Saturday Review“Cripple Creek has found its historian. Money Mountain is sure to stand for years as a valid picture of that bizarre camp.”—New York Times Book Review