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When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson was featured in LitHub’s “Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation from University Presses.”
Reviews
Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country
Review in Journal of Arizona History:
“Scholars who love the West in all its beauty, nobility, cruelty, and farce, particularly those frustrated with either simple nostrums or the bleak turn evident in much scholarship in recent years, may find themselves both delighted and enriched.”
Review in The Journal of Arizona History:
“Lavrin’s latest monograph contains many insightful observations that will delight scholars and students of Latin American history and religion. I highly recommend this book.”
Review in The Journal of Arizona History:
“…for any scholar or student interested in missions in Spanish colonial America, this book is an essential read.”
Review in Journal of Popular Culture:
“Focused on commanding biography back to a game that has fallen prey to data and analytics, each chapter reads as an essay including a major figure as emblematic of larger economic, political, or social developments.”
Review in The Journal of Arizona History:
“…this book and the rest of his body of work on the Sonorans will stand for a long time as the definitive sources consulted by Mexicanists.”
Review in A Contra Corriente:
“The Sonoran Dynasty should become a required text for established scholars.”
Review in The Americas:
“This is an accessible and sweeping history of a crucial yet overlooked and misunderstood subject in Mexican history.”
Review in The Latin Americanist:
“Buchenau has written a book of clarifying insight that foregrounds the relationships that made and unmade one of the most powerful political alliances in modern Mexican history.”
Review in American Historical Review:
“Weaving together biography, political history, intrigue, and superb storytelling, Buchenau has crafted the first comprehensive and archivally based study on the Sonorenses and its members.”
Review in World Literature Today:
“The call to action that ends the collection— Dare to love [the earth] beyond all rational thought’—is radical and radial, as Waberi shows us how to ‘turn into earth both literally and figuratively.'”
Review in Kansas History:
“Interspersed with anecdotes from the author’s own upbringing in Lincoln and the experiences of his ancestors, Portrait of a City is a fascinating contribution to Great Plains urban history.”
Review in Kansas History:
“Richard Moves Camp’s objective is to reveal the truth about the religious practices and to advocate for their revival.
Author Interviews
Interview in The Pinch
UNP blog 