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Escogidas Plantas
Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601
Inbunden, 2005
1267 kr
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With this book, Jacqueline Holler demonstrates how early members of religious orders in Mexico were conceived of as an extension of the process of conversion and spiritual conquest. Over time, however, the creation of convents became a means of reaffirming the European nature of the colony, at …
Community and Public Culture
The Marwaris in Calcutta, c. 1897–1997
Inbunden, 2005
1267 kr
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An elite community in India, neither Anglicized nor traditional, shaped instead by diaspora and capitalist enterprise, is the subject of Anne Hardgrove's research.
The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796–1799
Av Wayne Hanley
Inbunden, 2005
1346 kr
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Wayne Hanley's The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799 makes clever use of images as well as text to show the artful self-crafting on the part of a young provincial on the make. Using a term actually invented at or near the Revolution, the book makes propaganda into a key element in the …
Like Wheat to the Miller
Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon
Inbunden, 2005
1346 kr
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Mary Halavais's Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon reopens the question of the reality of convivencia in Aragon during the 16th century in a tightly-woven examination of two villages, Baguena and Burbaguena, in the …
A Field of Honor
Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution
Inbunden, 2005
794 kr
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Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in …
How Taiwan Became Chinese
Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2008
932 kr
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At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters and visited mainly by pirates and fishermen. By the end of the century it was home to more than a hundred thousand Chinese colonists, who grew rice and sugar for export on world markets. This book …
Pursuit of an "Unparalleled Opportunity"
The American YMCA and Prisoner-of-War Diplomacy Among the Central Power Nations During World War I, 1914-1923
Inbunden, 2009
711 kr
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During World War I, over six million men became prisoners-of-war, a burden that overwhelmed the resources of the belligerent powers, which had a responsibility to care for these men. Becoming aware of the POWs plight, the American YMCA was determined to provide welfare relief to these prisoners, …
The Romance of China
Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876
Inbunden, 2008
1346 kr
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John Rogers Haddad's analytically rich and methodologically complex work attends to various appearances of Chinese culture in America throughout the nineteenth century. Through a close examination of museums, panoramic paintings, blue and white ceramics, tea advertisements, travelogues, missionary …
Advocating the Man
Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
Inbunden, 2009
1346 kr
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Joshua R. Greenberg argues that working men's conceptions of household-based masculine obligations informed organized responses to the changing economy in early nineteenth-century New York City. Rather than a particularized class consciousness as the source of working men's identity, Greenberg …
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius
Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities
Inbunden, 2008
1307 kr
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Manhood in the Age of Aquarius investigates how a deep commitment to the belief in the naturalness of masculinity shaped the efforts of American hippies to create economic, social, political, institutional, religious, and environmental alternatives to their received culture during the 1960s and …
From Heads of Household to Heads of State
The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516–1558
Inbunden, 2008
1267 kr
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J. L. McIntosh argues that Mary I and Elizabeth I were authority figures before they acceded to the English throne. As independent heads of households and property owners, the Tudor princesses attained a social and political status usually reserved for elite men, showing that women could achieve …
Arms and the Woman
Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Inbunden, 2009
711 kr
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The image of a woman bearing arms is a potent symbol of modern Greece's nation-building conflicts. Margaret Poulos traces the influence of this image on Greek feminist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s and 1980s. The study begins with the heroines of the 1821 Revolution and the …
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices
Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Inbunden, 2009
1307 kr
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Maria Rentetzi surveys the experimental practices of radioactivity research in early-twentieth-century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. She shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity-scientific practices employed by gendered …
Sensual Encounters
Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Inbunden, 2009
1230 kr
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Through the lens of sensorial experience, Erika Lauren Lindgren explores the spirituality of monastic women as reflected in their writings, liturgical texts, artwork, architecture, and archival documents. Specifically, she focuses on the Dominican nuns and lay-sisters of southern Germany in the …
Pestilence and Headcolds
Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Inbunden, 2008
1346 kr
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If one of the goals of historical research is to get as close as possible to the texture of daily life in worlds we have lost, then some understanding of the beliefs people had about their health is essential, especially if they lived in an age when the death rates from infectious disease were high …
Societies, Religion, and History
Central-East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Inbunden, 2009
1296 kr
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Scholars often equate a Swahili presence with the moment history began on the Tanzanian central coast. In this book, Rhonda M. Gonzales proposes an altogether different and more comprehensive narrative. Societies, Religion, and History is the first study to apply historical linguistic methods to …
Architecture and Memory
The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Inbunden, 2008
1346 kr
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The studioli of the ducal palaces at Urbino and Gubbio, Italy, demonstrate architecture's capacity to transact between the mental and physical realms of human experience. Constructed between 1474 and 1483 for the military captain Federico da Montefeltro and his young motherless son, the studioli …
Caught in the Crossfire
Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Inbunden, 2009
906 kr
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In the summer of 1947, Crossfire, a controversial thriller exposing American anti-Semitism, was a critical and box-office hit, and RKO producer Adrian Scott was at the pinnacle of his career. Within several months, however, Scott became infamous as a member of the Hollywood Ten, blacklisted for his …
Belongings
The Fight for Land and Food
Inbunden, 2008
1294 kr
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Laura J. Mitchell concentrates on the contested dynamics of land tenure in the Cedarberg region of the Western Cape, from the first settler land claim of 1725 to the entrenchment of colonial administration in the 1830s. Based on a decade of research, Mitchell focuses on the conflict between Dutch …
Between Winds and Clouds
The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Av Bin Yang
Inbunden, 2008
1220 kr
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Between Winds and Clouds tells the two-thousand-year history of Yunnan, an ethnic frontier bordered by Tibet, mainland Southeast Asia, and southwest China. Yunnan's prime geographic location turned the site into a center of cross-regional trade, and consequently, it became a desirable conquest for …
A Tender Age
Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2009
1346 kr
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Beginning in the early thirteenth century, the burial of a child became an event of dramatic consequence. Child death took on a symbolic power, with great concern expressed over the fate of the body. William F. MacLehose follows the evolution of this social anxiety during the twelfth and thirteenth …
Sumner Welles, Postwar Planning, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937-1943
Inbunden, 2008
1346 kr
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According to Christopher D. O'Sullivan, there is still much to consider regarding Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. Exploring the worldview of Sumner Welles, who became one of Roosevelt's chief foreign policy advisors until Welles's tragic and scandalous resignation in the fall of 1943, …
Colonial Lists/Indian Power
Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India
Inbunden, 2005
676 kr
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In a significant expansion of recent studies of colonial discourse, Katten assesses the early colonial period in southern India as a "dialogic" enterprise. Distinctive forms of identity emerge as indigenous peoples interact with new colonial rulers. For the different groups that Katten explores in …
The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe
Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in Darién, 1640-1750
Inbunden, 2005
627 kr
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The European powers were forced to make the Kuna people of present-day Panama and Columbia an integral part of their calculus of empire. Yet the Kunas created new forms of leadership out of foreign contacts, enabling their own survival.
