One of the most controversial atomic projects of the US nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s was the construction of a nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, a relatively unsettled and biologica
Discusses how American Indian educators define their roles and judge their achievements. He examines the ways they address the complex issues of cultural identity that affect their students and themse
Nunn Ballew, father, farmer, moonshiner, and hunter dreams of life beyond the Appalachian hills but becomes obsessed with the pursuit of King Devil, a legendary predatory fox
Hills of Conflict provides the first detailed analysis in English of the history of Basque nationalism in France from the Ancien Regime to the present day. The Basques are descended from one of the or
Historians of the American West are indebted to the pioneering scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Frederick Jackson Turner, Walter Prescott Webb, and Herbert Eugene
During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, transit, exile and foreign occupation. At the Liberation of France in 1944, many
This volume contains 18 critical essays by Ann Ronald on the literature of the American West. She discusses such topics as the environmental journalism of Edward Abbey, the epic novels of Larry McMurt
Every year, more than thirty-five million people from all over the world visit Las Vegas; only two million call the city home. Everyday Las Vegas takes a close look at the lives of those who live in a
The history of St. Thomas, Nevada, the remains of which today lay under the high water mark of Lake Mead, begins in 1865 with Mormon missionaries sent by Brigham Young to the Moapa Valley to grow cott
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to
