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Basque-English English-Basque Pocket Dictionary
Häftad, 1992
396 kr
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This pocket-sized Basque-English, English-Basque dictionary was designed for a broad audience—studens, teachers, people of Basque descent, and travelers—and contains definitions of the most commonly used Basque and English words. This compact softcover volume is the condensed version of the two …
Rebellious People-Basques Protests and Politics
Inbunden, 1991
455 kr
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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.
Circle of Mountains-Basque Shepherding Community New Ed
Häftad, 1993
252 kr
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Ott provides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community. The commune of Sainte-Engrâce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provences in France. In The Circle of Mountains, Sandra Ott examines the …
Decline of Carlism
Inbunden, 2000
584 kr
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The cause of three civil wars and almost endless civil strife, Carlism is one of the most significant forces in Spanish politics since the early-19th century, yet its remarkable evolution since the 1930s has gone undocumented. This study fills that gap, showing how the movement - a curious blend of …
Enduring Legacy
The Story of Basques in Idaho
Häftad, 2003
223 kr
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Brothers John and Mark Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, a story that begins with a few solitary sheep-herders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community they are today.
Good Oak
A Novel
Häftad, 2004
233 kr
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Thirteen-year-old Matt Echbar is angry at the world. His widowed father is too busy for him, and his grandfather is an embarrassment, an unschooled Basque shepherd whose language and customs are completely alien to Matt's all-American lifestyle. And things get worse when the grandfather steals a …
Amerikanuak
Basques in the New World
Häftad, 2005
396 kr
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When ""Amerikanuak"" was first published in 1975, it was hailed as both a pioneering study of one of the American West's most important ethnic minorities and as an engaging, comprehensive survey of Basque migration and settlement in the Americas. Its value as an essential introduction to the …
Aurrera! V. 2
A Textbook for Studying Basque
Av Linda White
Inbunden, 2010
699 kr
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‘Aurrera!’ is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque (the Batua form approved by the Academy of the Basque Language) in a classroom setting or on their own. Each chapter introduces elements of grammar and offers students written and spoken exercises, vocabulary, …
Back to Bizkaia
A Basque-American Memoir
Häftad, 2011
260 kr
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Nevada sheep rancher Joe Juaristi spoke for years about making a trip back to the Spanish Basque Country that he left sixty years earlier, but each time the subject came up the discussion evolved into a family debate about the scope and members of the journey. Finally Joe's son, Vince, secretly …
Last Shepherd
Häftad, 2012
282 kr
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Mathieu Etchiberri wants nothing more than to leave his family's Arizona sheep ranch and go to college, but his father insists that he take over the ranch instead. Then his father is killed in an accident, and Matt discovers that he is not the heir to the ranch. So he travels to the French Pyrenees …
Unfit for Marriage
Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750
Häftad, 2014
339 kr
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The Catholic Church of early modern Europe intended the sacrament of matrimony to represent a lifelong commitment, and it allowed few grounds for the dissolution of an unhappy marriage. One was nonconsummation owing to the sexual impotency of one of the partners. Even then, an annulment was granted …
Escape Via Berlin
Inbunden, 1991
411 kr
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José 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 escape from the Germans, but it contains far more …
Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country
Inbunden, 1995
588 kr
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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 capable of improvising verse on any subject …
Solitude-Art and Symbolism in the National Basque Monument
Av Carmelo Urza
Inbunden, 1993
411 kr
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Urza discusses the genesis of the National Basque Monument to the Basque Sheepherder that is located in Reno, Nevada. He also describes the competition held to determine the monument's design and the debates arising from the modern sculpture created by renowned Basque artist Nestor Basterrextea. …
Basque Hotel
Häftad, 1993
233 kr
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The time is the 1930s and the setting is a western frontier town of a few thousand people, with one dubious distinction. Carson City, Nevada, is the smallest capital in the United States. Pete's world is circumscribed by Main Street - shops and stores, a pool hall, boarding-house hotels, and a …
Bilbao's Modern Business Elite
Inbunden, 1997
526 kr
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Glas analyzes the rapid economic growth of Spain’s Bilbao region in the context of its massive exportation of iron ore to Great Britain between 1875 and 1899. Focusing on the mining boom and the opportunities it created for Bilbao businessmen, the author establishes a broad chronological and …
Dancing Flea
Häftad, 1996
179 kr
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The first biography of an eighteenth-century Basque immigrant who became a silver miner, a cattle rancher, and commander of the cavalry in Sonora, Mexico. The name of Juan Bautista de Anza the younger is a fairly familiar one in the contemporary Southwest because of the various streets, schools, …
Karmentxu and the Little Ghost
Häftad, 1996
179 kr
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In this volume, brothers Mark and John Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, resulting in an engaging story that begins with a few solitary sheepherders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community of today.
Portraits of Basques in the New World
Av University of Nevada Press, Richard W. Etulain m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
399 kr
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A collection of new essays on notable historic and contemporary Basques of America's Far West that offers a perceptive and lively examination of the lives of one of the West's most resilient and successful ethnic minorities. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the Basque people or …
Time of the Rabies
Häftad, 2000
201 kr
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During the 1920s, a rabies epidemic swept across northern Nevada, decimating wildlife and livestock herds. This historic event is the background for acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt’s brilliant new novella. Set on a sheep ranch in the desert foothills near Carson City, Time of the Rabies follows …
Travels with My Royal
A Memoir of the Writing Life
Inbunden, 2001
260 kr
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Nevada's preeminent living writer reveals the ideas and creative process behind his published work. Renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt has embraced a wide range of subjects in his nearly half-century career. In this candid, beautifully written memoir, he explores for the first time what is …
Identity, Culture and Politics in the Basque Diaspora
Inbunden, 2003
469 kr
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Gloria P. Totoricagüena presents a thorough comparative examination of the remarkable endurance of Basque identity and culture in six countries of the far-flung Basque diaspora. Using the results of interviews and extensive anonymous surveys with more than eight hundred informants in the diaspora, …
Social Roots of Basque Nationalism
Av Alfonso Pérez-Agote, Cameron Watson
Inbunden, 2006
455 kr
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That the Basque people have preserved their ethnic identity and sense of being a separate community, despite centuries of repression, diaspora, and economic and social upheaval, is one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of that phenomenon we call nationalism. ""The Social Roots of …
Travel Guide to Basque America
Families, Feasts, and Festivals
Av Nancy Zubiri
Häftad, 2006
294 kr
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A Travel Guide to Basque America - the first-ever guide to America's Basque-American communities, their history, culture, and festivals - has been a best-seller since it first appeared in 1998. This new edition updates the original, listing dozens of new restaurants, Basque cultural clubs and …
