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Alejandro Aldekoa: Master of Pipe and Tabor Dance Music in the Basque Country (Hardcover)
by Sabin Bikandi. (No. 18 Occasional Papers Series) Includes DVD of music and dance performances “Aldekoa’s biography is not a unique, isolated, or extreme case. Instead, it reflects the ups and downs in the life of most Basques who experienced the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s dictatorship.... -
Alejandro Aldekoa: Master of Pipe and Tabor Dance Music in the Basque Country (Paperback)
by Sabin Bikandi. (No. 18 Occasional Papers Series) Includes DVD of music and dance performances “Aldekoa’s biography is not a unique, isolated, or extreme case. Instead, it reflects the ups and downs in the life of most Basques who experienced the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s dictatorship.... -
Amatxi, Amuma, Amona: Writings in Honor of Basque Women (Hardcover)
Linda White and Cameron Watson, eds. (Occasional Papers Series, 8) This publication brings together 11 essays on Basque women—their personal and collective stories—from the Basque Country of Europe to Basque settlements in the American West, Latin America, and Australia. This diverse collection focuses on identity, specifically Basque identity, together with... -
Arriaga, The Forgotten Genius. The Short Life of a Basque Composer (Hardcover)
by Barbara Rosen. The biography of a precocious and little-known Basque composer, Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio Arriaga y Balzola (1806-1826). Born in 1806, Arriaga wrote an octet at age 11, composed his first opera when he was 13, entered the Paris Conservatory at age 15, and published his String Quartets... -
Basque Cultural Studies (Hardcover)
Edited by William A. Douglass, Carmelo Urza, Linda White, and Joseba Zulaika. (Occasional Papers Series, 5) In the summer of 1998, the University of Nevada, Reno hosted an international symposium entitled “Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization,” attended by nearly eighty scholars. Selected papers from the symposium... -
Basque Nationalism and Political Violence: The Ideological and Intellectual Origins of ETA (Hardcover)
by Cameron Watson. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 14). 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... -
Basque Nationalism and Political Violence: The Ideological and Intellectual Origins of ETA (Paperback)
by Cameron Watson. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 14). 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... -
Basque Politics and Nationalism on the Eve of the Millennium (Hardcover)
Edited by William A. Douglass, Carmelo Urza, Linda White, and Joseba Zulaika. (Occasional Papers Series, 6) In the summer of 1998 the University of Nevada, Reno hosted an international symposium entitled “Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization,” attended by nearly eighty scholars. Selected papers from the symposium... -
Basque/European Perspectives on Cultural and Media Studies (Hardcover)
Edited by María Pilar Rodríguez. (No. 17 Occasional Papers Series) In articles ranging from the meteorological predictions of early Basque newspapers, to the “bog bodies” and liminal spaces of the Danish countryside, to the contested space of the contemporary Spanish department in U.S. universities, to the experience of queer studies... -
Essays in Basque Social Anthropology and History (Hardcover)
edited by William A. Douglass. This volume includes fourteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Basque anthropology, history, folklore, and immigration studies. 1989, $27.50 (cloth) -
In Search of Catalina de Erauso:The National and Sexual Identity of The Lieutenant Nun (Hardcover)
by Eva Mendieta. (No. 16 Occasional Papers Series) “Buckle up your seat belt, Dear Reader, since you are in for a wild ride! Catalina de Erauso, the subject of this incisive biography, was one of the more controversial (and certainly bizarre) figures of the early seventeenth century. A celebrated and... -
Oteiza’s Selected Writings
Joseba Zulaika, ed. (Occasional Papers Series, 9) Oteiza was one of the principal artists and art theorists of the twentieth century. The radical deconstructionism of his formal “disoccupations” of space, considered by many a precursor of minimalism, won him the 1957 Grand International Prize for Sculpture at the Sao Paolo... -
Robert Laxalt, the Voice of the Basques in American Literature (Paperback)
by David Río; translated by Kristin Addis. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 13) 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... -
States of Terror: Begoña Aretxaga’s Essays (Paperback)
by Begoña Aretxaga Edited by Joseba Zulaika; Introduction by Kay B. Warren; Prologue and Epilogue by Joseba Zulaika. (Occasional Papers Series, 10) States of Terror is the posthumous work by Begoña Aretxaga (1960–2002). Her ability for bringing to the situation at hand the experiences and sights of other times and... -
The Basque Diaspora / La Diáspora Vasca (Hardcover)
Edited by William A. Douglass, Carmelo Urza, Linda White, and Joseba Zulaika. (Occasional Papers Series, 7) In the summer of 1998, the University of Nevada, Reno hosted an international symposium entitled “Basques in the Contemporary World: Migration, Identity, and Globalization” attended by nearly eighty scholars. Selected papers from the symposium... -
The Origins, Ideology, and Organization of Basque Nationalism, 1876–1903 (Hardcover)
by Javier Corcuera Atienza; translated by Albert Bork and Cameron J. Watson. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 12) 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 Origins, Ideology, and Organization of Basque Nationalism, 1876–1903 (Paperback)
by Javier Corcuera Atienza; translated by Albert Bork and Cameron J. Watson. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 12) 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 Transformation of National Identity in the Basque Country of France, 1789-2006 (Hardcover)
by Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 15). The emergence of modern France is typically cited as the prime example of a strong model of state construction. At the same time, the Basque Country is renowned for its own distinct identity. This work demonstrates how feelings of national identity... -
The Transformation of National Identity in the Basque Country of France, 1789-2006 (Paperback)
by Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga. (Occasional Papers Series, no. 15). The emergence of modern France is typically cited as the prime example of a strong model of state construction. At the same time, the Basque Country is renowned for its own distinct identity. This work demonstrates how feelings of national identity...


















