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Roots and Resilience
California Ranchers in their Own Words
ISBN: 9781647791612
Pub Date: 12 November 2024
Format: Paperback
120 Pages
In Roots and Resilience, the authors invite readers to consider an intimate relationship with the California landscape and its history. Ranching in the region goes back centuries, and many of these...
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell
A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s
ISBN: 9781647791384
Pub Date: 7 November 2024
Format: Hardcover
472 Pages
In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of...
The University of Nevada, Reno, 1874-2024
150 Years of Inspiring Excellence
ISBN: 9781647791698
Pub Date: 1 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
With a foreword by University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval
In October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven students. With vision and determination, this tiny institution grew, and in 1886, Morrill Hall welcomed a class of thirty-five to the campus that was now nestled on a bluff above the Truckee Meadows located in Reno. At the time of the University of Nevada, Reno’s sesquicentennial, nearly 17,000 students, who have reached record levels of diversity and achievement, are now guided through the college experience by an equally diverse and talented faculty who mentor them toward their chosen professions. During the next 150 years, the University will continue to graduate exceptional students, as its community looks to the future while recollecting on the extraordinary dedication and achievements of the people who made the...
Underground Leviathan
Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas
ISBN: 9781647791360
Pub Date: 25 June 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and effects of the United States Company, and how its mining operations shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape...
World War II and Nevada
The Silver State's Contribution to Victory
ISBN: 9781647791469
Pub Date: 28 May 2024
Format: Paperback
448 Pages
World War II and Nevada is an in-depth examination of the state’s role in the war. Nevada’s geographic location, land, sky, mineral resources, and the sacrifices of its people were crucial to victory—and...
Great Basin Indians
An Encyclopedic History
ISBN: 9781647791315
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
512 Pages
A comprehensive overview of Native American history and culture in the Great Basin
Playa Works
The Myth of the Empty
ISBN: 9781647791537
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
In eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American West , examining locations as diverse as Nellis Air Force Base and Frenchman Flat, where the federal government has...
Reno, Las Vegas, and the Strip
A Tale of Three Cities
ISBN: 9781647791551
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Three metropolises on divergent paths
The Land of My Fathers
A Son's Return to the Basque Country
ISBN: 9781647791544
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about...
The War on Wine
Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture
ISBN: 9781647791148
Pub Date: 7 November 2023
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Throughout American history the prohibition and restriction of alcohol, including wine, has been part of what we now call culture wars. After losing the Prohibition Constitutional Amendment, anti-alcohol forces rebranded themselves as neoprohibitionists dedicated to the restriction of alcohol usage and they touted themselves as the counter-voice to alcohol organizations like the Wine Institute led by John A. De l.uca from 1976 to 2013.
Roots and Resilience
California Ranchers in their Own Words
ISBN: 9781647791612
Pub Date: 12 November 2024
Format: Paperback
120 Pages
In Roots and Resilience, the authors invite readers to consider an intimate relationship with the California landscape and its history. Ranching in the region goes back centuries, and many of these...
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell
A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s
ISBN: 9781647791384
Pub Date: 7 November 2024
Format: Hardcover
472 Pages
In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of...
The University of Nevada, Reno, 1874-2024
150 Years of Inspiring Excellence
ISBN: 9781647791698
Pub Date: 1 October 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
With a foreword by University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval
In October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven students. With vision and determination, this tiny institution grew, and in 1886, Morrill Hall welcomed a class of thirty-five to the campus that was now nestled on a bluff above the Truckee Meadows located in Reno. At the time of the University of Nevada, Reno’s sesquicentennial, nearly 17,000 students, who have reached record levels of diversity and achievement, are now guided through the college experience by an equally diverse and talented faculty who mentor them toward their chosen professions. During the next 150 years, the University will continue to graduate exceptional students, as its community looks to the future while recollecting on the extraordinary dedication and achievements of the people who made the...
In October 1874, a small preparatory school opened its doors in the remote northern Nevada town of Elko with an enrollment of seven students. With vision and determination, this tiny institution grew, and in 1886, Morrill Hall welcomed a class of thirty-five to the campus that was now nestled on a bluff above the Truckee Meadows located in Reno. At the time of the University of Nevada, Reno’s sesquicentennial, nearly 17,000 students, who have reached record levels of diversity and achievement, are now guided through the college experience by an equally diverse and talented faculty who mentor them toward their chosen professions. During the next 150 years, the University will continue to graduate exceptional students, as its community looks to the future while recollecting on the extraordinary dedication and achievements of the people who made the...
Underground Leviathan
Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas
ISBN: 9781647791360
Pub Date: 25 June 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and effects of the United States Company, and how its mining operations shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape...
World War II and Nevada
The Silver State's Contribution to Victory
ISBN: 9781647791469
Pub Date: 28 May 2024
Format: Paperback
448 Pages
World War II and Nevada is an in-depth examination of the state’s role in the war. Nevada’s geographic location, land, sky, mineral resources, and the sacrifices of its people were crucial to victory—and...
Great Basin Indians
An Encyclopedic History
ISBN: 9781647791315
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
512 Pages
A comprehensive overview of Native American history and culture in the Great Basin
Playa Works
The Myth of the Empty
ISBN: 9781647791537
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
In eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American West , examining locations as diverse as Nellis Air Force Base and Frenchman Flat, where the federal government has...
Reno, Las Vegas, and the Strip
A Tale of Three Cities
ISBN: 9781647791551
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Three metropolises on divergent paths
The Land of My Fathers
A Son's Return to the Basque Country
ISBN: 9781647791544
Pub Date: 15 January 2024
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about...
The War on Wine
Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture
ISBN: 9781647791148
Pub Date: 7 November 2023
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Throughout American history the prohibition and restriction of alcohol, including wine, has been part of what we now call culture wars. After losing the Prohibition Constitutional Amendment, anti-alcohol forces rebranded themselves as neoprohibitionists dedicated to the restriction of alcohol usage and they touted themselves as the counter-voice to alcohol organizations like the Wine Institute led by John A. De l.uca from 1976 to 2013.