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Personal Rule in Black Africa
Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant
Av Robert H. Jackson, Carl G. Rosberg
Häftad, 1982
632 kr
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Personal Rule in Black Africa: The Dynamics and Challenges of Institutionless Governance offers an in-depth exploration of governance systems across Black African states, focusing on the pervasive model of personal rule. This study contends that political authority in much of Black Africa operates …
Personal Rule in Black Africa
Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant
Av Carl G. Rosberg, Robert H. Jackson
E-bok, 1982
446 kr
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed …
Personal Rule in Black Africa
Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant
Av Robert H. Jackson, Carl G. Rosberg
Inbunden, 1982
1190 kr
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Personal Rule in Black Africa: The Dynamics and Challenges of Institutionless Governance offers an in-depth exploration of governance systems across Black African states, focusing on the pervasive model of personal rule. This study contends that political authority in much of Black Africa operates …
Quasi-States
Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World
Häftad, 1993
468 kr
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In this book, Professor Robert Jackson develops an original interpretation of Third World underdevelopment, explaining it in terms of international relations and law. He describes Third World countries as 'quasi-states', arguing that they are states in name only, demonstrating how international …
From Savages to Subjects
Missions in the History of the American Southwest
Inbunden, 2000
1567 kr
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Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, …
From Savages to Subjects
Missions in the History of the American Southwest
Häftad, 2001
487 kr
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Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, …
New Latin American Mission History
Av Erick D. Langer, Robert H. Jackson
Häftad, 1995
275 kr
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The subject of missions—formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers—is one that renders the modern student a bit uncomfortable. Where the mission enterprise was actuated by true belief it strikes the modern sensibility as fanaticism; where it sprang …
Frontiers of Evangelization
Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions
Häftad, 2025
284 kr
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The Spanish crown wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and, to that end, facilitated the establishment of missions by various Catholic orders. Focusing on the Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda in Northern New Spain (Mexico) and the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos …
Indians, Franciscans and Spanish Colonization
The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians
Av Robert H. Jackson, Edward Castillo
Häftad, 1996
540 kr
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This ethnohistory examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on previously unused sources to analyse change and continuity in Indian material culture and religious …
New Views of Borderlands History
Häftad, 1998
557 kr
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These seven original essays offer the first ethnohistorical interpretation of Spanish-Indian interaction from Florida to California. The indigenous peoples in the borderlands were hunter-gatherers or agriculturalists whose lives differed substantially from the lives of Indians in large-scale …
Forging the Future of Special Collections
Av Arnold Hirshon, Robert H. Jackson m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1364 kr
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Once treated as exclusive spaces for valuable but hidden and under-utilized material, over the past few decades special collections departments have been transformed by increased digitization and educational outreach efforts into unique and highly visible major institutional assets. What libraries …
Politics and Government in African States
1960 - 1985
Av Robert H. Jackson, Peter Duignan
E-bok, 2022
660 kr
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Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African states since independence. Each chapter considers the formal structure of government at the time of independence and traces the subsequent changes. Each chapter also …
Politics and Government in African States
1960 - 1985
Av Robert H. Jackson, Peter Duignan
E-bok, 2022
646 kr
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Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African states since independence. Each chapter considers the formal structure of government at the time of independence and traces the subsequent changes. Each chapter also …
Politics and Government in African States
1960 - 1985
Av Peter Duignan, Robert H. Jackson
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African states since independence. Each chapter considers the formal structure of government at the time of independence and traces the subsequent changes. Each chapter also …
Politics and Government in African States
1960 - 1985
Av Peter Duignan, Robert H. Jackson
Häftad, 2024
546 kr
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Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African states since independence. Each chapter considers the formal structure of government at the time of independence and traces the subsequent changes. Each chapter also …
From Savages to Subjects
Missions in the History of the American Southwest
E-bok, 2019
571 kr
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Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, …
From Savages to Subjects
Missions in the History of the American Southwest
E-bok, 2019
571 kr
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Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, …
Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico
The Augustinian War on and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier
Inbunden, 2013
2647 kr
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In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards …
Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609-1803
The Formation and Persistence of Mission Communities in a Comparative Context
Inbunden, 2015
2257 kr
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Beginning in 1609, Jesuit missionaries established missions (reductions) among sedentary and non-sedentary native populations in the larger region defined as the Province of Paraguay (Rio de la Plata region, eastern Bolivia). One consequence of resettlement on the missions was exposure to highly …
Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2019
1920 kr
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In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional conflict and …
Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression
Organization and Demographic and Quantitative Perspectives
Häftad, 2021
1240 kr
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From the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767, members of the Society of Jesus played an important role in the urban life of Spanish America and as administrators of frontier missions. This study examines the organization of the Society of Jesus in Spanish America in large …
Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions
Inbunden, 2022
2537 kr
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The Bourbon monarchs who ascended the Spanish throne in 1700 attempted to reform the colonial system they had inherited, and, in particular, to make administration more efficient and cost-effective. This book analyses one aspect of the Bourbon reforms, which was the efforts to transform frontier …
Urban Plan, Architecture, and the Geography of the Sacred in Colonial Morelos
Av Robert H. Jackson, Leonardo Meraz Quintana
Inbunden, 2024
2138 kr
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In the sixteenth century, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to evangelize the indigenous peoples of central Mexico. Indigenous peoples incorporated the new faith into their belief system on their own terms, and continued to conceptualize a sacred geography that ordered …
Creole Jesuits in the Province of New Spain in 1767
Architecture, Organization, Profile, and Identity
Inbunden, 2025
2454 kr
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In 1767, King Carlos III of Spain ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits from his dominions. This study examines the Jesuits in the Province of New Spain (Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala) at the time of the expulsion, their urban educational and spiritual role, and their administration of frontier missions. …
Public Rituals of Life, Death, and Resurrection in Tlayacapan, Morelos (Mexico)
Inbunden, 2020
1613 kr
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A process of social, cultural, and religious change occurred in central Mexico starting in the sixteenth century, following the Spanish conquest. Missionaries from different religious orders attempted to convert the indigenous peoples of central Mexico to Catholicism, and a part of this process …
