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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 Northern 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. GaarderThe 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 [Order Form included in original newsletter]
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