Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons. A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas, Hardback - Kirsten Silva Gruesz

In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across th...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Brioni SimoneNumber of pages: 188Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 172 x 245 x 15Cover type: Paperback / ...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Charnelle Pinkney BarlowIllustration(s): Full colourNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Silvia FerraraTranslator: Todd PortnowitzNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 216 x...

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Examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the 1910s), and proposes a n...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Jenny Tinghui ZhangNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 40Cover type: HardbackR...

This book describes the background and present state of pest management in cotton crops throughout the world. Cotton is one of the most economicall...