A quintessentially American saga, the life of Joseph Smith offers believers and non-believers alike an epic narrative that inhabits both grounded history and a heavenly sphere of action. Zachary McLeod Hutchins renders Smith’s early life as a poetic narrative in two parts. The first introduces a very human Joseph and his youthful encounter with demonic […]
The Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all those who suffered and died will never be known. Today, prevailing […]
The Nature of Empire exposes the central role of modern imperialism in the development of contemporary environmentalism and environmental science. It builds this case through an investigation of five major modern empires: Britain, France, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan. This book offers readers a global environmental history of modern imperialism that actively engages Western-based […]
Music Across Civilizations: A Global Journey explores how music shapes identity, community, and belonging across time and cultures. Written by Denise Favela Apodaca, the book guides students through diverse musical traditions, from ancient rituals to global contemporary sounds. Through listening activities and cultural reflection, readers discover how music expresses resilience, spirituality, and social change. Designed […]
“onus is a spellbinding, poetic exploration of femininity in modern America. Devon Fulford confronts sex, objectification, abuse, and generational trauma in a voice that is both deeply personal and reverberating. These poems speak plainly, unflinchingly, and sometimes with surprising humor. Whether reflecting on childhood loneliness, online misogynistic violence, or not crying until you get in […]
An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history Drawing upon the mythic figure of William F. Cody, or “Buffalo Bill,” the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (BBCW) is complex of five museums in Cody, Wyoming, that celebrate the “spirit […]
This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis. Identifying myth and ritual as key resources for contemporary politics, Earthborn Democracy excavates practices and narratives that illustrate the interdependence necessary to inspire ecological renewal. It tells stories of multispecies agency and egalitarian political organization across history, from […]
Accompanying the exhibition of the same name, 3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations is the first exhibition at Colorado State University dedicated to artists of the Hinonoʼeino’ (Arapaho) and Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) Nations, whose homelands in Colorado formed much of the land grant that founded Colorado State […]
During the crucial period of its formation, the opposing forces of corruption and anticorruption shaped Venezuela’s new national state and its relationship with society. National strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, who ruled from 1908 to 1935, fastened control over key areas of the economy, extracted wealth from the Venezuelan people, and distributed resources to favorites. Utilizing […]
Written for undergraduate students with little or no exposure to economics, this introductory textbook offers a new perspective on environmental economics for the 21st century. It explains how economics for a sustainable world requires a new approach: accepting that the economy is intrinsically dependent on nature. Drawing on up-to-date case studies from around the globe, […]
