Product Description: During the Depression of the 1930s, a mountain farmer sat at a small table and on lined paper torn from a child's school notebook wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, complaining that the Blue Ridge Parkway was going to go "right through the middle" of his farm...read more

'Anthropology meets cultural studies (popular and otherwise) and historiography with a remarkable theoretical and investigative depth. A wide range of topics includes the title essay on 19th-century culture; culture under Somoza (the elder) and resistance to that culture; Sandinista culture and resistance thereto; 19th-century looting of antiquities; gender; the political cultures surrounding Rubâen Dario and Augusto Sandino; and effective introductory and concluding remarks'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: In the American imagination, "Appalachia" designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished romantic region in the American mind...read more