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Anglo-American Contributions to Basque Studies: Essays in Honor of Jon Bilbao Edited by William A. Douglass, Richard W. Etulain, and William H. Jacobsen, Jr. (Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences, No. 13) This volume of twenty-one essays by American, British and Canadian scholars represents the first English-language publication of such scope in the hitherto European-dominated field of Basque studies. The volume contains three sections, the first being “Basques in the New World,” which includes the following titles: The Basques in Western North American Literature, by Richard W. Etulain The Basque Community in Buffalo, Wyoming, by Joseph Castelli Trouble in the Sweet Promised Land; Basques in Early Twentieth Century Northeastern Nevada, by Richard Lane Basque Dancing in Southern California, by Candi de Alaiza Basque Ethnoveterinary Practices in the San Joaquin Valley of California, by Frank P. Araujo Preliminary Comments on the Basque Colony in Mexico City, by Lorin R. Gaarder The second section, “Old World Basque Society and Culture,” contains a variety of essays written from the perspectives of several disciplines: Guipuzcoan Shipping in 1571 with Particular Reference to the Decline of the Transatlantic Fishing Industry, by Selma Huxley Barkham The Decline of a Basque State in France: Basse Navarre, 1512-1789, by Rachel Bard Response of the Pays Basque to the Convocation of the Estates General in Pre-Revolutionary France, by Helen J. Castelli Basque Language Survival in Rural Communities from the Pays Basque, France, by Raymond and Francoise Mougeon Carlism-Basque or “Spanish” Traditionalism? by Stanley G. Payne Great Britain and the Blockade of Bilbao, April, 1937, by Michael Alpert Borderland Influences in a Navarrese Village, by William A. Douglass The Position of Women in a Basque Fishing Community, by Charlotte Crawford The Religious Role of the Woman in Basque Culture, by Roslyn M. Frank The final section, “Basque Linguistics,” presents six papers of varied approach, each a contribution towards an understanding of a unique language: The Basque Locative Suffix, by William H. Jacobsen, Jr. Gapping Basque Constituents, by Linda Gastañaga The Comparative Construction in Basque, by Terence H. Wilbur The Basque Passive, by John Bollenbacher Remarks on Basque Verbal Morphology, by Jeffrey Heath Historical Syntax and Basque Verbal Morphology: Two Hypotheses, by Robert L. Trask [An order form was included in the original newsletter text.] |
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