The Basque Series
Thanks to Robert Laxalt and William A. Douglass, the University of Nevada Press launched its Basque Series in 1970 with the re-publication of Rodney Gallop’s A Book of the Basques. As director of the Press, Laxalt made the series a priority for the Basque Studies Program, which Douglass had helped to create a few years earlier. From the start the goal was to bring the Basques to the attention of readers in the English-speaking world—a goal which continues to this day. Laxalt’s own Sweet Promised Land has become a classic in the literature about the American West. Over time the series has grown increasingly inter-disciplinarian and representative of the global Basque diaspora. The Basque Series has now published more than fifty books about a people who did so much to shape the cultural and economic history not only of Nevada and the Great Basin region, but among many other parts of the world. The series welcomes works of fiction and memoir in addition to scholarly studies.
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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...
Jaialdi
A Celebration of Basque Culture
ISBN: 9781647790530
Pub Date: 15 June 2022
Format: Paperback
100 Pages
First held in 1987, Jaialdi is the United States’s largest Basque festival and takes place in Boise every five years. Through vivid photography and a recounting of personal interviews with event founders and organizers, Jaialdi: A Celebration of Basque Culture provides a stunning account of how the ancient traditions of these industrious people are showcased through the activities and events of Jaialdi.
Organized and staffed entirely by volunteers, Jaialdi attracts 35,000 to 50,000 visitors from around the world. Attendees enjoy festivities featuring Basque culture, including dancing, music, food, and competitive feats of strength. Photographer Jon C. Hodgson captures the spirit and merriment of the festival in vivid detail, taking readers on a journey into the heart of Basque culture. Coupled with author Nancy Zubiri’s observations from her own attendance at nearly every Jaialdi since 1987, the book reveals how Boise’s Basque community has committed to host the festival...
Basque-English Dictionary
ISBN: 9781647790332
Pub Date: 29 July 2021
Format: Paperback
672 Pages
This is the most comprehensive Basque-English dictionary; it incorporates all six major dialects of the revitalized language. With skill and precision, Gorka Aulestia has tackled the difficult problem...
English-Basque Dictionary
ISBN: 9781647790325
Pub Date: 7 July 2021
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
With over 25,000 English entries and their Basque equivalents in six major dialects, this volume is the most complete reference to the Basque language to date for English-speaking people. This useful...
Aurrera!
A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781948908689
Pub Date: 5 April 2021
Format: Paperback
456 Pages
A beginning-level text in the Basque language <br>
Home Away From Home
A History of Basque Boardinghouses
ISBN: 9781948908528
Pub Date: 22 February 2021
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
In this meticulously researched study of Basque boardinghouses in the United States, Jeronima Echeverria offers a compelling history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life...
The Deep Blue Memory
ISBN: 9781948908979
Pub Date: 15 November 2020
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
An intimate portrait of a second-generation Basque-American who struggles to reconcile her memories of the simplicity of the past with the reality of change in the present
Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry
Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954
ISBN: 9781943859993
Pub Date: 20 March 2019
Format: Paperback
252 Pages
This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada. It deconstructs the essentialist view that attributed to Basques special sheepherding skills by exploring this immigrant experience within its economic, social, cultural, political, and international context. This book is targeted to an academic, student and wider audience interested in the Modern American West and Basque Studies.
Possible Paradises
Basque Emigration to Latin America
ISBN: 9781943859917
Pub Date: 16 April 2018
Format: Paperback
600 Pages
From Columbus's first voyage to "the Indies" in 1492, Basques participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as mariners, shipbuilders, traders, miners, and ironworkers;...
War, Judgment, And Memory In The Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945
ISBN: 9780874170085
Pub Date: 1 September 2016
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
An examination of the Basques’ response to war

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...
Jaialdi
A Celebration of Basque Culture
ISBN: 9781647790530
Pub Date: 15 June 2022
Format: Paperback
100 Pages
First held in 1987, Jaialdi is the United States’s largest Basque festival and takes place in Boise every five years. Through vivid photography and a recounting of personal interviews with event founders and organizers, Jaialdi: A Celebration of Basque Culture provides a stunning account of how the ancient traditions of these industrious people are showcased through the activities and events of Jaialdi.
Organized and staffed entirely by volunteers, Jaialdi attracts 35,000 to 50,000 visitors from around the world. Attendees enjoy festivities featuring Basque culture, including dancing, music, food, and competitive feats of strength. Photographer Jon C. Hodgson captures the spirit and merriment of the festival in vivid detail, taking readers on a journey into the heart of Basque culture. Coupled with author Nancy Zubiri’s observations from her own attendance at nearly every Jaialdi since 1987, the book reveals how Boise’s Basque community has committed to host the festival...
Organized and staffed entirely by volunteers, Jaialdi attracts 35,000 to 50,000 visitors from around the world. Attendees enjoy festivities featuring Basque culture, including dancing, music, food, and competitive feats of strength. Photographer Jon C. Hodgson captures the spirit and merriment of the festival in vivid detail, taking readers on a journey into the heart of Basque culture. Coupled with author Nancy Zubiri’s observations from her own attendance at nearly every Jaialdi since 1987, the book reveals how Boise’s Basque community has committed to host the festival...
Basque-English Dictionary
ISBN: 9781647790332
Pub Date: 29 July 2021
Format: Paperback
672 Pages
This is the most comprehensive Basque-English dictionary; it incorporates all six major dialects of the revitalized language. With skill and precision, Gorka Aulestia has tackled the difficult problem...
English-Basque Dictionary
ISBN: 9781647790325
Pub Date: 7 July 2021
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
With over 25,000 English entries and their Basque equivalents in six major dialects, this volume is the most complete reference to the Basque language to date for English-speaking people. This useful...
Aurrera!
A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781948908689
Pub Date: 5 April 2021
Format: Paperback
456 Pages
A beginning-level text in the Basque language <br>
Home Away From Home
A History of Basque Boardinghouses
ISBN: 9781948908528
Pub Date: 22 February 2021
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
In this meticulously researched study of Basque boardinghouses in the United States, Jeronima Echeverria offers a compelling history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life...
The Deep Blue Memory
ISBN: 9781948908979
Pub Date: 15 November 2020
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
An intimate portrait of a second-generation Basque-American who struggles to reconcile her memories of the simplicity of the past with the reality of change in the present
Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry
Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954
ISBN: 9781943859993
Pub Date: 20 March 2019
Format: Paperback
252 Pages
This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada. It deconstructs the essentialist view that attributed to Basques special sheepherding skills by exploring this immigrant experience within its economic, social, cultural, political, and international context. This book is targeted to an academic, student and wider audience interested in the Modern American West and Basque Studies.
Possible Paradises
Basque Emigration to Latin America
ISBN: 9781943859917
Pub Date: 16 April 2018
Format: Paperback
600 Pages
From Columbus's first voyage to "the Indies" in 1492, Basques participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as mariners, shipbuilders, traders, miners, and ironworkers;...
War, Judgment, And Memory In The Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945
ISBN: 9780874170085
Pub Date: 1 September 2016
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
An examination of the Basques’ response to war