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
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
On March 1, 1968, some ten thousand Chicana/o students walked out of their classes across the Southwestern United States in protest against educational inequalities and for more inclusive pedagogies.
Karin Rosa Ikas offers probing and insightful interviews with ten Chicana writers of diverse backgrounds: Denise Chavez, Gloria Anzaldua, Lucha Corpi, Cherrie Moraga, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mary Helen P
An examination of Basque nationalism from a historical perspective. Basque nationalism has been extensively examined from the perspectives of Basque culture and internal conditions in the Basque Count
For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformation
Class Acts explores the development of lifestyle marketing from the 1960s to the 1990s. During this time, young men began manipulating their identities by taking on the mannerisms, culture, and fashio
This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the hu
In 1968 the residents of Lovell, Wyoming, began the work of saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang, a breed of horse with a genetic link dating back to the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadores’ horses.
Seventeen contributors provide fifteen essays on the challenges of teaching students about place and their connection to it, providing insights into the role of humans in the communities of life and e
Written to provide a holistic analysis of both the ideology and structures of the Basque Nationalist Party, this work examines the sociological aspects of Basque nationalism and political identity as
On April 26, 1937, a massive aerial attack by German and Italian forces reduced the Basque city of Gernika to rubble and left more than sixteen hundred people dead. Although the assault was initiated
A condensed version of two much larger works, the Basque-English Dictionary and the English-Basque Dictionary (both published by the U. of Nevada Press), containing definitions of the most commonl
“Americans, like their early European forebears and other world powers, realized that while farms, ranches, and other rural institutions were important, towns and cities were dynamic structures, capab
This general-interest anthology offers selections from sixty-seven authors, making it one of the most diverse collections available of California’s far-ranging literature, including fiction, nonfictio
