-= PANORAMA Winter 2004 =- Press Check




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Recent books by NMSU faculty members and alumni

The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920 by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler

University of New Mexico Press, 2004

Harris and Sadler, NMSU history professors emeriti, provide a vivid picture of the turbulent decade of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920. The Texas Rangers’ participation is discussed in detail, including their controversial involvement in suppressing the insurgency along the Texas-Mexico border. Harris and Sadler detail how the Rangers – following the orders of the Texas governor – performed many illegal killings in response to the Mexican president’s plot to kill all Anglo males 16 and older along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mesilla Valley Roasts! Chile Lore, Tales & Recipes Plus Diners by Sunny Conley

Hot on Chile! LLC, 2004

Mesilla Valley Roasts! is more than just a cookbook. Sunny Conley ’94 has compiled information about chile peppers that includes recipes, information on chile preparation, and advice and discussion about chile. Part of the book contains Conley’s “Chile Knights” columns that have appeared in Las Cruces newspapers since 1997, to which the author adds articles and columns that appeared in other regional publications. Other sections profile famous “chileheads” including Paul Bosland, Roy Nakayama and Fabian Garcia. As a bonus, Conley offers a section on recommended readings, a listing of local “Mexican Diners with a History,” a section on ristra making and other handy chile-related information.

Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community by Jon Hunner

University of Oklahoma Press, 2004

Los Alamos was an “instant city,” created by the federal government in 1943 as a place to house the top-secret Manhattan Project. Jon Hunner, assistant professor of history, examines the first 15 years of Los Alamos from its beginning as the birthplace of the atomic bomb to its character as the first town to confront the social and cultural issues of the Atomic Age. His narrative discusses the scientists and military personnel who worked in the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the “regular” townsfolk. These townsfolk were the wives and children of the scientists and military personnel, and the local Hispanics and Native Americans who had long lived in the area. Most of them knew nothing of the momentous device being constructed in their town.

The Complete History of New Mexico by Kevin McIlvoy

Graywolf Press, 2004

McIlvoy’s first book of short stories includes the novella, “The Complete History of New Mexico,” which is told in the form of a research paper written by a fifth grader in Hatch, New Mexico. He surrounds the novella with other stories, including some based on blues songs and rhythms, and others more traditional in form, but all of which have elements of delight and discovery. McIlvoy, professor of English in the MFA creative writing program, has authored four novels.

Crafting the Republic: Lima's Artisans and Nation Building in Peru, 1821-1879 by Iñigo García-Bryce

University of New Mexico Press, 2004

García-Bryce, an assistant professor of history, tells how artisans in Lima actively participated in the transition from Spanish colony to independent nation in Peru during the 19th century. Artisans left behind their guilds and their colonial racial identities as mestizos and mulatos, and embraced liberal ideas of citizenship and voluntary associations. They entered national politics as vocal citizens who used a range of tactics to protect their economic interests, ranging from an 1858 protest against free trade to lobbying in Congress and using the newspapers. Artisans ultimately reinterpreted liberalism and began to organize as part of a new working class.

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