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24 produkter
Alchemy of Conquest
Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
Av Ralph Bauer
Inbunden, 2019
1200 kr
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The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about …
Alchemy of Conquest
Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
Av Ralph Bauer
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about …
Sifilografía
A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World
Av Juan Carlos González Espitia
Inbunden, 2019
1364 kr
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Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas’ colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period’s literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards’ political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal francés" or "el mal de las …
Letters from Filadelfia
Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite
Av Rodrigo Lazo
Inbunden, 2020
1010 kr
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For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-Language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-Language …
Letters from Filadelfia
Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite
Av Rodrigo Lazo
Häftad, 2020
356 kr
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For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-Language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-Language …
Sifilografía
A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World
Av Juan Carlos González Espitia
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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Syphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas' colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards' political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal francés" or "el mal de las …
Sun of Jesús Del Monte
A Cuban Antislavery Novel
Inbunden, 2022
1445 kr
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Translated into English for the first time, Andrés Avelino de Orihuela’s El Sol de Jesús del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (which Orihuela had translated into Spanish), it provides an …
Sun of Jesús Del Monte
A Cuban Antislavery Novel
Häftad, 2022
498 kr
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Translated into English for the first time, Andrés Avelino de Orihuela’s El Sol de Jesús del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel. Published originally in 1852, the same year as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (which Orihuela had translated into Spanish), it provides an …
Before American History
Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession
Inbunden, 2022
1002 kr
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Before American History juxtaposes Mexico City’s famous carved Sun Stone with the mounded earthworks found throughout the Midwestern states of the U.S. to examine the project of settler nationalism from the 1780s to the 1840s in two North American republics usually studied separately. As the U.S. …
Before American History
Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession
Häftad, 2022
402 kr
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Before American History juxtaposes Mexico City’s famous carved Sun Stone with the mounded earthworks found throughout the Midwestern states of the U.S. to examine the project of settler nationalism from the 1780s to the 1840s in two North American republics usually studied separately. As the U.S. …
Forms of Relation
Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America
Inbunden, 2023
1249 kr
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Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships to debates and struggles over colonial …
Forms of Relation
Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America
Häftad, 2023
465 kr
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Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships to debates and struggles over colonial …
Rumors of Revolution
Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana
Inbunden, 2023
1249 kr
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In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there had never been a …
Rumors of Revolution
Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial Louisiana
Häftad, 2023
449 kr
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In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there had never been a …
Inkface
Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery
Inbunden, 2023
1315 kr
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In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of …
Inkface
Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery
Häftad, 2023
449 kr
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In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of …
Ghosts and Their Hosts
The Colonization of the Invisible World
Inbunden, 2024
1511 kr
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Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psycheIn this innovative book, Sladja Blažan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a literal medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social …
Ghosts and Their Hosts
The Colonization of the Invisible World
Häftad, 2024
498 kr
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Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psycheIn this innovative book, Sladja Blažan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a literal medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social …
Reckoning with Race in New Worlds
Av Ruth Hill
Inbunden, 2026
1398 kr
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How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whitenessA landmark treatment of a pivotal historical question, Reckoning with Race in New Worlds reveals how the empires of Spain and Portugal debated and came to determine who was white and who was not during their colonial era. How …
Reckoning with Race in New Worlds
Av Ruth Hill
Häftad, 2026
558 kr
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How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whitenessA landmark treatment of a pivotal historical question, Reckoning with Race in New Worlds reveals how the empires of Spain and Portugal debated and came to determine who was white and who was not during their colonial era. How …
Perceived in Print
Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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A fresh look at the conversations and interactions of Native Americans and French as recorded in writings from the New WorldPerceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French …
Perceived in Print
Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other
Häftad, 2026
498 kr
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A fresh look at the conversations and interactions of Native Americans and French as recorded in writings from the New WorldPerceived in Print uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French …
Creole Drama
Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans
Inbunden, 2019
935 kr
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The stages of antebellum New Orleans did more than entertain. In the city's early years, French-speaking residents used the theatre to assert their political, economic, and cultural sovereignty in the face of growing Anglo-American dominance. Beyond local stages, the francophone struggle for …
Creole Drama
Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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The stages of antebellum New Orleans did more than entertain. In the city's early years, French-speaking residents used the theatre to assert their political, economic, and cultural sovereignty in the face of growing Anglo-American dominance. Beyond local stages, the francophone struggle for …
