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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954
by Iker Saitua
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.
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;...
