The Basques, one of Spain's most distinct ethnic minorities, played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain's vast colonial empire, including the Philippines. Basques were members of the Magellan expedition that discovered the Philippines in 1521, and a Basque-led expedition subsequently laid the foundation for Spain's conquest and pacitication of the archipelago. Despite the small population of their native provinces, the Basques' unique skills as shipbuilders, navigators, businessmen, and scribes; their evangelical zeal; and their ethnic cohesion and work-oriented culture made them well suited to serve as explorers, colonial administrators, missionaries, settlers, merchants, and shippers in the trans-Pacific galleon trade between China, Manila, and Acapulco, Mexico. After the Wars of Independence deprived Spain of most of its American empire, many Basques settled in the Philippines, fleeing political persecution and increasingly limited opportunities in their homeland. Basque emigration from Spain to the Philippines continued through the first half of the twentieth century. This work breaks new ground with its study of the Basque diaspora in the far East. It also addresses the long-unappreciated history of the Philippines as a vital part of the Spanish Empire, closely connected through trade and personal ties to the American colonies, and crucial to the European penetration of East Asia. Basques distinguished themselves in many areas of Filipino life, and their story, as told by Marciano de Borja, is rich in vivid characters and fascinating detail, while at the same time filling an important void in the scholarly literature about the Basque diaspora.

Product Description: Covers Basque physical anthropology, archaeology, language and sociolinguistics, and identity formation.

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Nunn Ballew, father, farmer, moonshiner, and hunter dreams of life beyond the Appalachian hills but becomes obsessed with the pursuit of King Devil, a legendary predatory fox

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Product Description: This multilingual volume offers eight essays in Spanish on: Basques in Latin America - notably Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico; four essays in English on Basques in the western United States; and one essay in French on the Basques of Canada (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume of 14 essays covers such varied topics as: the origin theories of the Basque language and its viability in the contemporary world; literature; gender studies; rock music and the bertsolari or troubadour; cinema; sports; and Bilbao and the Guggenheim museum. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The story of Jack Douglass's rise through Nevada's early gaming history. Douglass began his gaming career on slot machines through several Nevada mining camps, the small-scale variety that was prominent from 1931, and by the 1960s he was a principal in several casinos. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Terror and Taboo is about the mythology of terrorism; it is an exploration of the ways we talk about terrorism. It offers incontestable evidence to support the idea that we give power to terrorism by the way we write and talk about it...read more

Product Description: "The Decline of the Nation State" attempts to explain the historical and contemporary causes that have given rise to the current explosion of nationalist movements in Western Europe. The text also discusses the course these movements may take in the future...read more

Product Description: This book contains fourteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Basque anthropology, history, folklore and immigration studies.