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Books To order by phone (Basque Book Series titles and the various Center for Basque Studies publications), please contact the University of Nevada Press order line at 1.877.NVBOOKS (877.682.6657). Or send a note along with payment—a check made out to Board of Regents—to: University of Nevada Press / MS0166 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0166 Shipping: $6.00 for UPS, $7.00 for first class. Foreign orders, please contact the Press for shipping rates. Or you may request titles from any major book dealer, who will obtain them on order if they are not in stock. Titles from the Basque Textbook Series, Basque Classics Series, Basque Conference Papers Series, Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series, and Basque Literature Series are published by the Center for Basque Studies and distributed by the University of Nevada Press. Center for Basque Studies This work seeks to interrogate the relationship between ideas and action through a historical account of how images of violence and warfare pervaded the discourse of Basque nationalism—principally through the parameters of the hegemonic Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV or Basque Nationalist Party)—from its foundation in the 1890s through the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, it argues that a culture of political violence emerged within the Basque nationalist movement that eventually resulted in the creation of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Country and Freedom) in 1959. However, the undertone of violent struggle in substate Basque nationalism was itself a response to the aggressive statist nationalism of Spain, a country whose problematic transition to modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries engendered multiple forms of social, political, and structural violence within its own borders and beyond. The work views Basque political violence, then, as the contemporary manifestation of a past cultural experience, based on a problematic dialogue with the emergence of modern Spain. Yet it does not limit its explanation of ETA’s emergence to the Spanish context alone. Rather, it emphasizes the transnational context in which nationalist movements emerge and develop. Specifically, in the Basque case, and at varying times, the national struggles of Cuba, Morocco, and Ireland were extremely influential. Moreover, the immediate origins of ETA were strongly influenced by post–World War II intellectual currents, from existentialism to the liberating theories of anticolonial nationalist movements. David Río; translated by Kristin Addis Robert Laxalt, the Voice of the Basques in American Literature, (Occasional Papers Series, no. 13), 192 pp., photos, index; paper (ISBN 978-1-877802-71-3) $24.95. Robert Laxalt (1923–2001), an American-born writer of French Basque descent, is the literary spokesperson of the Basque Americans. With his novels and non-fiction works on the Basques of the American West, and especially his highly successful and influential Sweet Promised Land, Laxalt ended the literary and even social invisibility of Basque immigrants in the U.S., rescuing them from silence and oblivion. His works served to highlight the figure of the Basque sheepherder in the American West, establishing him as a literary archetype. Laxalt will be remembered for his several works set in the Basque Country as well, where he explores his roots and masterfully depicts the traditional way of life in the land of his ancestors. The present volume is the first book-length treatment of the life and work of Robert Laxalt, analyzing his representation of the varied settings, characters, motives, and themes employed by the author to portray both Old and New World Basque cultural reality. Javier Corcuera Atienza; translated by Albert Bork and Cameron J. Watson. The Origins, Ideology, and Organization of Basque Nationalism, 1876–1903, by Javier Corcuera Atienza; translated by Albert Bork and Cameron J. Watson (Occasional Papers Series, no. 12), 524 pp., index; paper (ISBN 978-1-877802-68-3) $29.95; hardcover (ISBN 978-1-877802-77-5) $39.95. Basque nationalism emerged in the aftermath of a bitter civil conflict that had led to the abolition of Basque regional or foral rights in 1876, and specifically in the rapidly industrializing Bilbao of the early 1890s. In this seminal work, first published in Spanish in 1979 and revised for a second edition in 2001, Javier Corcuera charts the emergence and rise of nationalism within the context of a society experiencing tremendous economic, social and political transformation. He focuses on the figure of Sabino Arana, the founder of Basque nationalism, arguing that he evolved from a traditionalist-inspired and quasi religious messianic vision of outright independence to a position of accommodation of Basque difference within Spain. This so-called Hispanicist evolution was, in Corcuera's opinion, the result of contact with another current, emanating from Bilbao's modern, industrial bourgeoisie, that emphasized a more pragmatic vision of Basque nationalism based on securing as much regional power as possible while remaining within the Spanish state. Here, then, lay the origins of the internal tensions that would come to define the subsequent development of the PNV or Basque Nationalist Party. Begoña Aretxaga, States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga’s Essays,
edited by Joseba Zulaika; Introduction by Kay B. Warren;
Prologue and Epilogue by Joseba Zulaika. (Center for Basque Studies
Occasional Papers Series, 10),
2005, paper, $24.95, 325 pages; bibliography; index. (ISBN 1-877802-57-3). Basque Textbook Series Textbooks designed for use with our online courses, or simply to inform readers about Basque history, linguistics, politics, etc. Available in hardcover, paperback, and CD formats. Basque Classics Series The Basque Classics Series features English translations of key Basque texts. Funding for production of these works is provided by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia. Basque Conference Papers Series This series is comprised of compilations of papers presented at the conferences sponsored by the Center for Basque Studies. Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series A series launched in 2004 for publications about the Basque diaspora, ethnonationalism, and ethnicity maintenance. Basque Literature Series The aim of this series is to present to the English-speaking world the most important works of contemporary Basque literature, with the translations being done directly from Basque into English. Funding is provided as part of an agreement between the Center for Basque Studies, the Department of Education, Department of Culture, and the Presidency of the Basque Government. Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press Please click on the title (see list below) for detailed information on each book, or you may browse by category as follows: Books by Robert Laxalt Language, Literature, and Children’s Books Anthropology and Culture History Political Science Title List
A View from the Witch’s Cave. Folktales of the Pyrenees Author List José Antonio de Aguirre Gorka Aulestia Dictionaries Improvisational Poetry Basque Poetic Tradition José Manuel Azcona Pastor Renato Barahona Luis Barandiarán Irizar (editor) John Bieter Mark Bieter Jon Bilbao Marciano R. de Borja José María Busca Isusi Robert P. Clark (1980: The Basques) Robert P. Clark (1990: Negotiating with ETA) Daniele Conversi Lisa Corcostegui (translator) Mary Ancho Davis William A. Douglass Jeronima Echeverria Jeronima Echeverria (editor) Martin Etchart Richard W. Etulain (editor) Rodney Gallop Donald Garate Eduardo J. Glas James E. Jacob Alan R. King Mariasun Landa Jesús María Lasagabaster (editor) Robert Laxalt Dorothy Legarreta Jeremy MacClancy J. Mallea-Olaetxe Sandra Ott Stanley G. Payne Juan Javier Pescador Gloria Totoricagüena Carmelo Urza Monique Urza Teresa del Valle Linda White Linda White (translator) View from the Witches’ Cave Korrika Improvisational Poetry Basque children’s books (Landa) Basque Poetic Tradition John Ysursa Cyrus Ernest Zirakzadeh Nancy Zubiri Joseba Zulaika |
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