University of Nevada Press - Böcker

The digging of mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, very little mining went deep enough to require maps. However, the major...

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During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, and foreign occupation. With the liberation of France in 1944, many Xiberoans faced new conflicts arising from legal and civic j...

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With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invalu...

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Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her familys twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her ...

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An engaging look at the history of the pion pine and its ecosystem. Combining natural history and observations of the cultural importance of the tree to both native Indians and European settlers, Lanner provides information on the management of th...

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In the late 1800s, the town of Eureka, Nevada, was seeking new residents and investors to help stimulate its booming economy. To encourage growth, Lambert Molinelli & Company, a real estate firm, published a ""complete history"&...

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Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevadas place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documen...

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Sand in a Whirlwind is a dramatic account of the events surrounding hostilities between settlers and Pyramid Paiutes in the spring of 1860. Thirty years after its publication Ferol Egans now classic tale continues to enlighten and engage readers.

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This thoughtful book examines the ten major campaigns to legalize casino gambling in America that were waged between 1976 and 1986 and proposes an explanation for why legalization of casino gaming lags behind legalization of other forms of gambling.

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Oscar Lewis sets his first novel in mid-1850s San Francisco. An authorized biography of a California entrepreneur has just been published, but James Horton is scarcely recognizable to those who knew him. Walter Doane, novelist and longtime friend ...

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This text examines why attempts to negotiate with the Basque insurgent group, "Euzkadi ta Askatasuna", have failed and makes suggestions on how to improve the chances of successful discussion in the future.

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Bennion provides in-depth portraits of nineteenth-century women editors of the West and their diverse publications. The book's title takes its name from an 1898 editorial in the Wasatch Wave which described Piute Pioneer editor Candace Alice De Wi...

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Jos Antonio de Aguirre, the exiled President of the Basque Republic, found himself caught between the Spanish Nationalists and the Gestapo as the Germans invaded France in 1940. This book is first and foremost the exciting account of a miraculous ...

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In this scholarly work, Zirakzadeh argues that there is a calculated reasoning behind ETA's political violence that is often overlooked by researchers. His book is a comprehensive account of the Basque region's grassroots politics.

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This pocket-sized Basque-English, English-Basque dictionary was designed for a broad audiencestudens, teachers, people of Basque descent, and travelersand contains definitions of the most commonly used Basque and English words. This compact softco...

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The films of Pare Lorentz are acknowledged masterpieces of world cinema. They are groundbreaking documentary records of our country in the hard years of the Depression."" William M. Drennen, Jr.In the depths of the Great Depression, the ...

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In 1902 the passage of the Reclamation Act and its mandate for the federal government to build dams for irrigation in the West created a need for accurate topographical surveys and geological studies of the rivers where the dams would be built. By...

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Karnee is the story of Northern Paiute Indian life in Nevada as told in the words of Annie Lowry, a Paiute/Caucasian woman who lived with the Paiute tribe near Lovelock. The story, told in both the first and second person, was written by Lalla Sco...

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Valuable as these volumes are in relation to railroad operations in Nevada and California, their usefulness as authoritative reference sources embraces a much broader scope. Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California is as much a history of the re...

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To further understanding of the meanings and values of wilderness, this volume explores wilderness and its significance to humans from myriad viewpoints, based on a meeting of the North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference.

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Aulestia takes a scholarly and in-depth look at the art of the bertsolari and introduces this Basque art to the English-speaking world. This work provides an understanding of an interesting cultural phenomenon - the artist in Basque society who is...

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This text offers a detailed analysis of the history of Basque nationalism in France from the Ancien Regime to the present day. The Basques are descended from one of the indigenous tribes of Europe, and their homeland was defined prior to the creat...

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Stockel sheds light on some of the mysteries surrounding traditional and contemporary Chiricahua Apache culture. Each of the women interviewed emphasizes the importance of storytelling and ritual in preserving Apache heritage. Many ceremonies are ...

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Ott provides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community. The commune of Sainte-Engrce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provences in France. In The Cir...

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Drawing on county records, newspaper microfilm, personal interviews, and on-site investigation, Hall provides the reader with a history of 175 significant sites, rendering a treasury of interesting facts on every page. This book blends history and...

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Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest. These themes-the humor and folktales of the rural Midwest, the bonds between generations and the...

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Clark's classic novel is a compelling tale of four men who fear a marauding mountain lion but swear to conquer it. It is also a story of violent human emotions--love and hate, hope and despair--and of the perpetual conflict between good and e...

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In this lively, playful celebration of the joys and power of language, Gorrell points to all the signs that show English to be alive and well, and, like any other living thing, constantly evolving. Watch Your Language! covers a wide array of topic...

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The Decline of the Nation State attempts to explain the historical and contemporary causes that have given rise to the current explosion of nationalist movements in Western Europe. The text also discusses the course these movements may take in the...

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This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca. She was a Paiute princess and a major figure in the history of Nevada; her tribe still resides primarily in the state. Lif...

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