Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+4406+4294967200 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1359813 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675376 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1383229 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268135 In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hidden amidst the breathtaking heights of the Andes, this settlement of temples, tombs and palaces was the Incas greatest achievement. Tall, handsome, and sure of his destiny, Bingham believed that Machu Picchu was the Incas final refuge, where they fled the Spanish Conquistadors. Bingham made Machu Picchu famous, and his dispatches from the jungle cast him as the swashbuckling hero romanticized today as a true Indiana Jones-like character. But his excavation of the site raised old specters of conquest and plunder, and met with an indigenous nationalism that changed the course of Peruvian history. Though Bingham successfully realized his dream of bringing Machu Picchus treasure of skulls, bones and artifacts back to the United States, conflict between Yale and Peru persists through the present day over a simple question: Who owns Inca history? In this grand, sweeping narrative, Christopher Heaney takes the reader into the heart of Perus past to relive the dramatic story of the final years of the Incan empire, the exhilarating recovery of their final cities and the thought-provoking fight over their future. Drawing on original research in untapped archives, Heaney vividly portrays both a stunning landscape and the complex history of a fascinating region that continues to inspire awe and controversy today--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991645 Chicle is a history in four acts, all of them focused on the sticky white substance that seeps from the sapodilla tree when its bark is cut. First, Jennifer Mathews recounts the story of chicle and its earliest-known adherents, the Maya and Aztecs. Second, with the assistance of botanist Gillian Schultz, Mathews examines the sapodilla tree itself, an extraordinarily hardy plant that is native only to Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Third, Mathews presents the fascinating story of the chicle and chewing gum industry over the last hundred plus years, a tale (like so many twentieth-century tales) of greed, growth, and collapse. In closing, Mathews considers the plight of the chicleros, the extractors who often work by themselves tapping trees deep in the forests, and how they have emerged as icons of local pop culture -- portrayed as fearless, hard-drinking brawlers, people to be respected as well as feared. --publisher description http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1041743 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1078588 Las cuatro consideraciones en que divide ese ensayo le sirven para repasar el presente latinoamericano, apuntar sus races y atisbar posibles desarrollos en la poltica, la sociedad y la literatura de la regin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001761 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=699739 This text offers a complete analysis of the plight of the migrant worker, the birth of the UFW, the non-violent approach of Chavez and the Chicano movement. A thoroughly readable text, this work is accessible for introductory students while still interesting and engaging for upper division students. In an effort to ground Chavez more substantially in the history of social reformers, this text explores many aspects of Chavezs personal life, as well as offering a substantial amount of political and social history. Chavezs victories and failures are examined, portraying him as a complete and complex individual.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=696267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611423 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591085 After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazils most famous explorer, Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the Western Hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539271 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=453167 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=355108 Some have called it the tortilla curtain. Others have viewed it as a Third World entity where primitive conditions and poverty exist cheek-by-jowl with the latest marvels of the Information Age. But the border region between Mexico and the United States is more dynamic than ever since its transition into a sort of Mexamerica - a world fueled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) and contraband of every stripe, from illegal drugs to illegal aliens. Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=289650 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=359525 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=332675 Finally, The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century offers interpretations of relevant border phenomena such as the distinction between legal and illegal migration, trends in transboundary migrant flows, and North American free trade. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=389643 This reinterpretation of the Mexican Revolution, based on new evidence obtained in Mexican and American archives and on the historical literature of recent years, is a major and original contribution to our understanding of Mexican history.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187422 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187338 This monograph argues that during the 1978-1992 period, U.S. immigration and drug enforcement policies and practices in the U.S.-Mexico border region became increasingly militarized. Tim Dunn examines these policies and practices in detail, and considers them in light of the strategy and tactics of the Pentagon doctrine of low-intensity conflict. Developed during the 1980s for use in Central America and elsewhere, this doctrine is characterized by broad-ranging provisions for establishing social control over specific civilian populations, and its implementation has often been accompanied by widespread human-rights violations. The study reflects a deep concern for human-rights conditions in the U.S.-Mexico border region - which has a troubled history in that regard - and is informed by the belief that the official story is usually but one version of events and should never be accepted uncritically.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=205919 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135385 Border Correspondent is the first major collection of the journalism of Ruben Salazar. Although there has long been a vigorous Spanish-language press in the United States, Salazar was the first journalist of Mexican American background to cross over into mainstream English-language print media with his reporting for the Los Angeles Times during the 1960s. Salazar was also the first significant foreign correspondent of Mexican descent, and in 1969 he became the first Mexican American columnist for a major newspaper. Mario Garcias introduction to this collection provides a biographical sketch of Salazar as well as a thoughtful evaluation of his significance to American journalism and to the history of the Mexican American community in California.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=218188 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233728 One of the unanswered questions in the history of the 1930s and 1940s concerns just what the Nazis were up to in Argentina. Here was a country whose population was almost entirely European in origin and outlook, led by a conservative landed elite determined to retain power against the rising forces of socialism and bolshevism. Here, too, was a substantial German-speaking minority numbering some quarter of a million. Could Argentina, then, have gone Nazi? This is the first complete, thoroughly researched investigation into the myth and reality of Nazi Germanys influence and activities in Argentina. It covers Nazi attempts to penetrate and convert Argentinas German-speaking population, to proselytize the Argentine military and right-wing political groups, and to influence the governments of the period. It also penetrates the maze of forgeries, propaganda, and assorted dirty tricks propagated by both the Allies and the Axis, thus providing a factual account of clandestine activities during the war years, and the alleged movement of Nazi war criminals and treasure to Argentina at the wars end. Among the authors major findings are that Germany in fact had no strategic designs on Argentina, but saw it as a market for export sales and a source of raw materials; that the response of German-Argentines and Argentines in general to Nazism was limited and dictated mostly by opportunism; and that both the British and Argentine governments took the measure of the German challenge calmly and rationally, and that it was the United States that became alarmed over the Nazi menace. Despite what the author demonstrates were the reckless and foolish activities of Nazi agents, the U.S. government and media were ignorant and gullible concerning Argentina. The British and anti-fascist exiles were consequently able to manipulate the United States skillfully through a series of hoaxes, several of which this book exposes. And though Argentina did provide sanctuary to ex-fascists after World War II, Germans were almost certainly outnumbered by Italians, Croats, and East Europeans. The book is illustrated with some 20 photographs.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=21522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=146273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170113 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=136576 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187827 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=186070 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=196001 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=22318 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=126124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=29599 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=178004