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Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar
Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America
Häftad, 2025
272 kr
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In 1792 in rural San Salvador, Juana Aguilar was accused of committing what the authorities called a “heinous” crime. Aguilar was suspected of being a “hermaphrodite,” and while this in and of itself was not a crime, determining Aguilar’s sex would resolve whether the relationships Aguilar had with …
Woman on the Windowsill
A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
Inbunden, 2020
371 kr
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A true story of violence, punishment, and a transformative moment in Guatemalan history that “deftly ranges across Italian iconography, Maya cosmovision, casta paintings, Enlightenment urbanism, conceptions of death, masculinity, gender violence, crime and punishment, and the growth of the state.” …
Woman on the Windowsill
A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
E-bok, 2020
221 kr
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A true story of violence and punishment that illuminates a transformative moment in Guatemalan historyOn the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano D√≠az opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a …
Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
Inbunden, 2013
880 kr
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The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous …
Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery
E-bok, 2013
999 kr
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The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous …
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
E-bok, 2007
80 kr
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The award-winning debut novel that ?brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel García Márquez.?( Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women ) Nítido Amán knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn?t know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never …
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America
Synoptic Methods and Practices
Av Karen Melvin, Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Inbunden, 2017
756 kr
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Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America. It demonstrates ways of making sense of the past through approaches that aggregate more than they dissect and suggest more …
