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Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatan, MexicoIn Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatn.The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nations government...

In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring encounters of colonization in Moquegua, a small valley of southern Peru. Building on theories of spatiality, spatialization, and place, she examines how politically mediated human interaction...

Prehispanic and Colonial PerspectivesTexcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives presents an in-depth, highly nuanced historical understanding of this major indigenous Mesoamerican city from the conquest through the present. The book argues for the need to revise conclusions of past scholarship on familiar topics, deals with current debates that...

Case Studies in Resilience and VulnerabilityIn The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic collapses, including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 7501050), were not caused solely by climate changerelated...

Chronicling the negotiations of Progressive groups and the obstacles that constrained them, The Gospel of Progressivism details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early twentieth century. While the various groups differed in their specific agendas, Protestant reformers, labor organizers, activist women, and...

Japanese Pioneers and The American DreamIn 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and childrens school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas Japanese ancestry, and the...