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22 produkter
Latin America in Colonial Times
Häftad, 2018
601 kr
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Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and …
Potosi
The Silver City That Changed the World
Av Kris Lane
Häftad, 2021
244 kr
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver …
World in the Making
Volume Two since 1300
Av Bonnie G. Smith, Marc Van De Mieroop m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1346 kr
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Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship, World in the Making: A Global History explores both the global and local dimensions of world history. Abundant full-color maps and images, along with other special pedagogical features that highlight the lives and voices of the …
Defending the Conquest
Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests
Av Kris Lane
Häftad, 2010
394 kr
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Of great benefit for scholars and teachers, this is the first English translation and critical edition of a rare refutation of Bartolomé de las Casas’s famous 1552 Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, one of the most influential texts of the sixteenth century. The Defense and Discourse …
Pandemic in Potosí
Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis
Av Kris Lane
Häftad, 2022
241 kr
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In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions …
Potosi
The Silver City That Changed the World
Av Kris Lane
E-bok, 2019
411 kr
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."— New York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world’s greatest silver …
Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Av Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Kris Lane
Häftad, 2008
651 kr
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Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune …
Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Av Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Kris Lane
E-bok, 2008
671 kr
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Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune …
Worlds Imagined, Worlds Remade
Essays in Honor of Davíd Carrasco
Inbunden, 2027
902 kr
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A powerful collection of essays composed in celebration of Davíd Carrasco, a towering figure in the history of religions, Aztec (Colhua-Mexica) history and culture, Chicano/Latine Studies, US–Mexico borderlands studies, and literary studies. In the spring of 2023 a group of scholars, students, and …
Atlantic World
A History, 1400 - 1888
Av Douglas R. Egerton, Alison Games m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
966 kr
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Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus' voyage, the Atlantic turned into a …
Latin America in Colonial Times
Häftad, 2027
558 kr
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The third edition of Latin America in Colonial Times is a thoroughly revised, argument driven textbook that details the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Matthew Restall and Kris Lane invite readers to engage with colonial Latin America as historians do …
Latin America in Colonial Times
Inbunden, 2027
1685 kr
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The third edition of Latin America in Colonial Times is a thoroughly revised, argument driven textbook that details the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. Matthew Restall and Kris Lane invite readers to engage with colonial Latin America as historians do …
Latin America in Colonial Times
E-bok, 2018
587 kr
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Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and …
Latin America in Colonial Times
E-bok, 2018
587 kr
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Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and …
Latin America in Colonial Times
Inbunden, 2018
1351 kr
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Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and …
Piracy in the Early Modern Era
An Anthology of Sources
Av Kris Lane, Arne Bialuschewski
Häftad, 2019
266 kr
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"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of sources, including the authors' own archival …
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell
A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s
Av Kris Lane
Inbunden, 2024
1065 kr
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In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of PotosÍ, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other nations known collectively as VicuÑas. At …
Enigmas de las Américas
Geografía y expediciones del Nuevo Orbis
Av Andrew Lambert, Kris Lane m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
210 kr
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En el primer libro de la colección se compilan una serie de artículos que abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, algunos de los enigmas que aquella geografía especulativa planteó a los expedicionarios, que buscaron resolverlos con sus sorprendentes viajes, en los que se conjugaban los intereses, …
Potosi
The Silver City That Changed the World
Av Kris Lane
Inbunden, 2019
297 kr
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"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane's book is the ideal place to begin."—New York Review of BooksIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world’s greatest silver bonanza, …
Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Av Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Kris Lane
Inbunden, 2008
1369 kr
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Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune …
Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
Av Edward Wright-Rios, Kris Lane
Häftad, 2014
398 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed that decades earlier a humble laywoman foresaw the nation’s calamitous destiny - foreign invasion, widespread misery, and chronic civil strife. The …
Africans Into Creoles
Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica
Häftad, 2014
398 kr
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Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in …
