Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 - Herman L. Bennett

This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities.... The way in which Bennett] integrates race, gender, a...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Reducere. During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast ...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

Sovereign Joy is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Afro-Mexican festive practices between 1539 and 1640, and the ways Afro-Mexicans were able to ...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-sevente...

Reducere. DescriptionEngaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States ...

Reducere. In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of ...

Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious beli...

Reducere. DescriptionWith limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype a...

Papusa Barbie Creola cu par afro si cu rochita roz

Reducere. This book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a b...

Reducere. Maria Elena Martinez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Spanish concept of limpieza de sangre (pur...

How history was saved in seventeenth-century Mexico

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A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archivesPublisher: Yale Univer...

Publisher: University of Texas PressAuthor(s): Angelica Jimena Afanador-PujolIllustration(s): 26 color and 51 b&w photos, 11 b&w illus.Number of pa...

Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these play...

This is the story of a free black Creole family with beginnings in French Louisiana in 1740. It's a story of struggle and triumph with an indomitab...

The forgotten story of Christianity, inward sight and life in all its fullness today.

Reducere. Prior to European contact, the Choctaw's matrilineal society supported women's contributions in all areas of community life. Evidence of Choctaw wo...

Reducere. Women in early 18th century Spanish Colonial New Mexico had rights and privileges under Spanish law that were not enjoyed by other women in North A...

With the Via crucis en mexicano as a starting point, John Schwaller explores the history of the development and spread of the Stations of the Cross...

DescriptionThis book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social his...

Reducere. Europe is often described as flooded by migrants or by Muslim others, with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same...

Reducere. Women in early 18th century Spanish Colonial New Mexico had rights and privileges under Spanish law that were not enjoyed by other women in North A...

Reducere. This book is the first of 12 in the highly acclaimed Walk in the Light Series written by Todd D. Bennett. Restoration examines the pagan influences...

Reducere. When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history...

DescriptionIn October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding vil...

Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England. By examining the rich variety of debates ...

Reducere. Over the course of recent decades, scholars and practitioners have been working to integrate contemporary psychology-related fields and Christianit...

In villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain's New World empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattere...

Describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest...

DescriptionCreole and Cajun from Louisana. Get your copy of the best and most unique Creole and Cajun recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journ...

Reducere. DescriptionSlave Genealogy of the Roulhac Family: French Masters and the Africans They Enslaved By Roy L. Roulhac In Slave Genealogy of the Roulhac...

"Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau" examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist pla...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage ...

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the Uni...

Reducere. An internationally recognized scholar highlights the important role the North African church played in the development of Christian thought. This a...