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by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse...
Another Face of Empire
Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
The Spanish cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas is a key figure in the history of Spain’s conquest of the Americas. Las Casas condemned the torture and murder of natives by the conquistadores in reports to the Spanish royal court and in tracts such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies...
Modern Blackness
Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated...
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies
Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady...
The Cord Keepers
Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon...
The Time of Liberty
Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Between 1750 and 1850 Spanish American politics underwent a dramatic cultural shift as monarchist colonies gave way to independent states based at least nominally on popular sovereignty and republican citizenship. In The Time of Liberty, Peter Guardino explores the participation of subalterns in this...
by James Williams, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2001
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of...
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
Contentious Lives
Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Contentious Lives examines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered, individually and collectively, by those who participate in them. Javier Auyero focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina (the two-day protest in the northwestern city of Santiago...
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex
Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women’s wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform,...
The Everything Guide to Stepparenting
Practical, reassuring advice for creating healthy, long-lasting relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Starting a relationship with a new person is always an adventure, and that adventure comes with extra thrills when your significant other is also a parent. Not only do you have to incorporate one new person into your life; you have to welcome that personÆs children too. This guide will teach new...
Tamar
A Novel of Ancient Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Tamar, a beautiful young princess of Israel, Palestine, daughter of King David, was ruthlessly raped by her half-brother, Amnon, who was infatuated with her, ill-advised by his cousin Jonadab to rape her, knowing that she was a virgin. The rape destroyed many lives, including that of Amnon, who was...
Attualità delle aree archeologiche: esperienze e proposte
Atti del VII Convegno Nazionale (Roma, 24-26 ottobre 2013)
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Il volume raccoglie gli atti del VII Convegno Nazionale dell’ARCo “Attualità delle aree archeologiche: esperienze e proposte”, svoltosi dal 24 al 26 ottobre 2013 presso la Facoltà di Architettura Roma Tre. Il Convegno ha posto temi che attengono al restauro, alla conservazione, alle metodologie...
by Irene Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
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