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In the mountains of northern New Mexico above Taos Pueblo lies a
deep, turquoise lake which was taken away from the Taos Indians,
for whom it is a sacred life source and the final resting place of
their souls. The story of their struggle to regain the lake is at
the same time a story about the effort to retain the spiritual life
of this ancient community. Marcia Keegan's text and historic
photographs document the celebration in 1971, when the sacred lake
was returned to Taos Pueblo after a sixty year struggle with the
Federal government.
This revised and expanded edition celebrates the 40th
anniversary of this historic event, and includes forwards from the
1971 edition by Frank Waters, and from the 1991 20th anniversary
edition by Stewart L. Udall. Also contained here is new material:
statements from past and current tribal leaders, reflections from
Pueblo members, historic tribal statements made at the 1970
Congressional hearings and a 1971 photograph o
Startling new insights into the JFK assassination In Killing
Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences,
author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses,
and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US
intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the
circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The
author asks important questions, including why the assassination
still matters today and what the lasting ripple effects have been
since that fateful day. The Kennedy assassination represents one of
the most impactful events in not only American but also world
history, and this book represents an important addendum to
understanding its enduring significance. On November 22, 1963, the
duly elected president of the United States was murdered in cold
blood, forever destroying "Camelot" and national optimism for world
peace. Gleaning a "people's history" of the assassination through
dozens of insightful and heartfelt interviews, Roth presents a
riveting narrative by creating a respectful, well-crafted, and
emotionally charged book from which both older and younger
generations will gain a greater understanding of our nation's
history and current status in the modern world.
2020 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Book Award Winner Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most
Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019
Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border
agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in
the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century. Needed at
one moment, scorned at others, Mexican agricultural workers have
moved back and forth across the US–Mexico border for the past
century. In South Texas, Anglo growers’ dreams of creating a
modern agricultural empire depended on continuous access to Mexican
workers. While this access was officially regulated by immigration
laws and policy promulgated in Washington, DC, in practice the
migration of Mexican labor involved daily, on-the-ground
negotiations among growers, workers, and the US Border Patrol. In a
very real sense, these groups set the parameters of border
enforcement policy. Managed Migrations examines the relationship
between immigration laws and policy and the agricultural labor
relations of growers and workers in South Texas and El Paso during
the 1940s and 1950s. Cristina Salinas argues that immigration law
was mainly enacted not in embassies or the halls of Congress but on
the ground, as a result of daily decisions by the Border Patrol
that growers and workers negotiated and contested. She describes
how the INS devised techniques to facilitate high-volume yearly
deportations and shows how the agency used these enforcement
practices to manage the seasonal agricultural labor migration
across the border. Her pioneering research reveals the great extent
to which immigration policy was made at the local level, as well as
the agency of Mexican farmworkers who managed to maintain their
mobility and kinship networks despite the constraints of grower
paternalism and enforcement actions by the Border Patrol.
The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer Lionel
Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stefano: in every generation
Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps
it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories,
and its myths. Argentina's rich, volatile history-by turns sublime
and ruthlessly pragmatic-is mirrored in the style and swagger of
its national and club sides. In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan
Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the
appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra,
the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Peron led the
country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-futbol, the
fusion of beauty and efficacy under Cesar Luis Menotti, and the
emergence of all-time greats. Praise for Inverting the Pyramid
"Here, for the first time in decades, is a top-notch soccer book on
how soccer is actually played on the field." -Simon Kuper "An
outstanding work...The soccer book of the decade." -Sunday Business
Post
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES
TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid
prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba
and its complex ties to the United States-from before the arrival
of Columbus to the present day-written by one of the world's
leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War,
the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a
momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more
than half a century, the stand-off continued-through the tenure of
ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro.
His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor
Raul Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country's
future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington-Barack Obama's opening to
the island, Donald Trump's reversal of that policy, and the
election of Joe Biden-have made the relationship between the two
nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian
Ada Ferrer delivers an "important" (The Guardian) and moving
chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island's past
and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than
five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a
front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation,
with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery
and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along
the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled
intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the
influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the
island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story
that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of
their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new
relationship with Cuba; "readers will close [this] fascinating book
with a sense of hope" (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories
and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research
in Cuba, Spain, and the United States-as well as the author's own
extensive travel to the island over the same period-this is a
stunning and monumental account like no other.
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