Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, Paperback - Ben Vinson III

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

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

Reducere. Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteent...

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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

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

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

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

The literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of sh...

Reducere. THE LANDMARK BESTSELLER--NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED More than twenty-five years ago, Quantum Healing helped transform Deepak Chopra into a ...

The startlingly young genius and his professor delve into the rich and strange world of mathematics

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

Explains reaching beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges of dispute resolution, where fundamental change is the desired r...

A scientific and globetrotting exploration of the physics experiments changing the ways we understand our universe bringing the science of cosmolog...

Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the best and most influential culinary R&D teams in the world, Vaughn Tan reveals how they exemplify wh...

Presents an account of the author's time travelling alone and living among the Shia and Ismaili Muslims in the Northern Areas - the mountainous reg...

Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family - Chandra Mallampalli

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

Our ever-increasing intimacy with technology is changing our bodies and our brains. What can those at the frontiers tell us about what it means to ...

This book examines the political construction of imperial frontiers from below during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Ibe...

Reducere. Carl Kiekhaefer vs the 1951-53 Pan American Road Race For five years, Mexico staged a car race that held the sporting world mesmerized for a week o...

How history was saved in seventeenth-century Mexico

DescriptionA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Persian is one of the great lingua francas of w...

Reducere. From the great popularizer of alternative medicine, here is a collection of essays about his travels to South America in the early 1970s in search ...

DescriptionThis book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760...

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. Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks bri...

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

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

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

Reducere. To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine both the political development and influence of...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

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...

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...

This chronicles the interrelation of gender, class and race which shaped British imperialism and, subsequently, its bloody dismantling.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sophie WhiteBased on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians ex...

From the cutting edge of science and living spirituality: a guide to understanding our identity and purpose in the world - Outlines the new underst...

States cooperate to stem irregular migration flows, yet migration control agreements often result in widespread violations of the socio-economic ri...