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Struggle for Natural Resources
Findings from Bolivian History
Av Carmen Soliz, Carmen Soliz m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
432 kr
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The Struggle for Natural Resources traces the troubled history of Bolivia's land and commodity disputes across five centuries, combining local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Enriched by the extractivism and commodity frontiers approaches to world history, the book treats Bolivia's …
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico
Men, Women and War
Häftad, 2000
340 kr
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In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter and the elites desire for a stable political order and an expanding economy. The emphasis in this book is on the struggle of the …
Independence in Spanish America
Civil Wars, Revolutions and Underdevelopment
Av Jay Kinsbruner, Lyman L. Johnson
Häftad, 2000
556 kr
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Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the Second Dialogos Edition; Preface to the First Dialogos Edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Life Span of Some Leaders of Independence; By Way of Introduction; The Causes of Independence; The Late Colonial Revolts and Protests; The First Phase of …
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Blacks in Colonial Latin America
Av Jane G. Landers, Barry M. Robinson
Häftad, 2006
398 kr
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Almost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources, the authors show that although plantation slavery …
Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico
Av Víctor M. Macías-González, Anne Rubenstein
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie …
Raising an Empire
Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America
Av Ondina E. Gonzalez, Bianca Premo
Häftad, 2007
321 kr
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From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Spain and Portugal raised and nurtured vast American empires, both metaphorically and literally. From the very beginning, conquerors and settler elites engaged in colonial enterprises as they considered the New World through traditional Iberian …
Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
Häftad, 2008
635 kr
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Kelly Donahue-Wallace surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the time of the conquest to the independence era. Emphasizing the viceregal capitals and their social, economic, religious, and political contexts, the …
Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador
The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory
Av H'ector Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
398 kr
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In January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. Armed mostly with machetes and a few guns, they attacked military garrisons, occupied towns, and looted or destroyed businesses, government buildings and private homes. In response, the army and local …
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches
Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
Häftad, 2007
331 kr
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The Decline of the Native Population shows how following the Spanish conquest of New Spain in 1521, among other factors, led to an increased demand for African slaves to add to the labor force and bolster the colonial economy. Approximately two hundred thousand Africans were imported into Mexico …
Native Brazil
Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900
Av Hal Langfur
Häftad, 2014
540 kr
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The earliest European accounts of Brazil’s indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives’ startling appearance and conduct—especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals—and on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals. This volume contributes to the unfinished task …
From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
Bahia, 1835-1900
Häftad, 2006
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340 kr
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Bahia is a province of Brazil on its northeastern coast and is the size of the country of France. From the sixteenth century through the 1850s, at least 1.2 million African slaves entered Brazil through Bahia, many of those through the major port city of Salvador. Dale Graden's study is divided …
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans
Av Jeffrey Lesser, Raanan Rein
Häftad, 2008
331 kr
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This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that segregates Jews as inhabitants in Latin America republics rather than as citizens of Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily …
War for Mexico's West
Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524-1550
Av Ida Altman
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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The War for Mexico's West examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the much more familiar, triumphalist narrative of Spanish daring, resilience and victory embodied in the oft-told tale of the conquest of central Mexico. As …
Aftershocks
Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
Av Jürgen Buchenau, Jurgen Buchenau m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
556 kr
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Earthquakes have helped shape the history of many Latin American nations. The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons. This collection of …
Black Mexico
Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
Av Ben Vinson, Ben Vinson, III m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
556 kr
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The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from 'New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico', a symposium conducted at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. The issues addressed include contested historiography, social and economic …
Irrestible Forces
Latin American Migration to the United States and Its Effects on the South
Av Gregory B. Weeks, John R. Weeks
Häftad, 2010
312 kr
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History of Mining in Latin America
From the Colonial Era to the Present
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolised fabulous wealth and …
Women Drug Traffickers
Mules, Bosses, and Organised Crime
Av Elaine Carey
Häftad, 2014
312 kr
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In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers - work rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing …
Course of Andean History
Häftad, 2013
398 kr
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The only comprehensive history of Andean South America from initial settlement to the present, this useful book focuses on Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the four countries where the Andes have played a major role in shaping history. Although Henderson emphasises the period since the winning …
Gendered Crossings
Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
Inbunden, 2016
1123 kr
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Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows …
Gendered Crossings
Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
Häftad, 2016
321 kr
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Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows …
Pursuit of Ruins
Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico
Häftad, 2016
556 kr
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Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio …
Sons of the Mexican Revolution
Miguel Alemàn and His Generation
Häftad, 2016
331 kr
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The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Alemàn. Supporters hailed them as modernizing visionaries whose policies laid the foundation for unprecedented economic growth, while …
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
Häftad, 2017
331 kr
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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.In 1620 Sor Jerónima de la Asunción (1556–1630) and her cofounders left their cloistered …
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
Inbunden, 2018
1583 kr
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This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano shows, …
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
Häftad, 2018
635 kr
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This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano shows, …
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Av John Tutino
Inbunden, 2018
1583 kr
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In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spain's silver. He broke Spain's monarchy, setting off a summer of ferment in Mexico City. People took to …
Mexico City, 1808
Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution
Av John Tutino
Häftad, 2018
340 kr
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In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade. Then Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, desperate to gain New Spain's silver. He broke Spain's monarchy, setting off a summer of ferment in Mexico City. People took to …
Origins of Macho
Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico
Inbunden, 2019
1583 kr
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With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo--defined as excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of violence. While scholars studying men's gender …
