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This book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable.

Linguistic data on color names from speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages.

The result of many years of research in Guatemala, this volume utilizes the author's fieldwork as well as that of his colleagues and students to construct a set of concepts explaining how Guatemala reached the difficult circumstances in which it found itself in the 1960s-and still finds itself today.

Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin-literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings.

How American military personnel and their dependents have affected the political and social evolution of Morocco.

How an ultracivilized country, one of the most European in Latin America, relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s.

The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.

A remarkable correspondence between the poet Robert Browning and his friend Isabella Blagden.

The first in-depth examination of Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity and its role in the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State.

A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieu's practice-theoretical approach.

Reconstructing Beirut contributes to a new approach to Middle East studies that applies recent theories of memory and space/place, bringing a fresh framework for analyzing contemporary Arab cultures and post-conflict cities.

This monumental study is an account of the world economy since the eighteenth century, an analysis and prescription for the future, and a challenge to the neo-Keynesian theories of income determination and growth.

Paul Friedrich looks closely at the strong men of the Tarascan Indian village of Naranja: their leadership, friendship, kinship, and violent local politics (over a time depth of one generation), and ways to understand such phenomena.

In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.

In this volume, nine classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history.

An exploration of how English words are translated.

A history of Texas-Mexican conflict during 1842, from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande.

Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945 is an objective and remarkably comprehensive account of the Brazilian Communist Party's struggle to survive repression under the regime of Vargas.

This volume reports in detail how a particular portion of the American wilderness developed into a settled farming community.

This tomb and its offerings unearthed at Pashash, in the northern Andes, provide new perspectives on the cultural meaning of Andean funerary treasure.

An investigation into why some architects become famous while other equally talented ones do not.

This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.

Bauer synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system.

A synthesis of the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguis

This book provides a full description of 103 Moche Valley burials, spanning a period of more than 3,500 years.

In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors' careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political r

A study of two western American states with different approaches to land conservation.

A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.