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.
A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s
Edited by Kris Lane
Translated by Timothy F. Johnson
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...
In the town of Urepel, Arizona, Xabier Etxea, a young Basque-American sheep rancher, and his wife grapple with the rituals, mores, and spirituality of their heritage and the realities of living in the...
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 book presents a fascinating and timely account of the consequences of the process of emigrating, as it relates to stress experienced by the emigrants. The stress that emigrants experienced is characterized as the "Ulysses Syndrom.
People familiar with the two languages generally have the impression that Basque and English could not be more different. While this may certainly be true in terms of their more superficial features, they are more similar than one might at first suspect in their internal structure. This book explores this apparent dichotomy.
The Tenacity of the Captains, Shipmasters, Merchants and Traders of Bilbao
by Margarita Serna Vallejo
ISBN: 9781949805451
Pub Date: 14 March 2022
Format: Paperback
110 Pages
The Consulate of Bilbao is a study framed between the peninsular consular histories, from the appearance of the first consulates in the Crown of Aragon during the late Middle Ages until the Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century.
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...
