Guaman Poma. Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, Paperback - Rolena Adorno

Presents the work of Guaman Poma, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas, who protested against Spanish rule.

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spi...

Reducere. One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This...

For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, i...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressNumber of pages: 205Publication date: 2001Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Provides the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s), ...

With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and ...

What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do'? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings toget...

Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy - James Williams

There was much popular support for Hitler's regime in Nazi Germany, and little widespread domestic opposition or resistance. However, a number of i...

Reducere. Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jam...

Reducere. Prologue1. A Five-year Project: 3, 000 Nights2.The Israelis and My Home: Under the Rubble (1983) and Children of Fire (1989)3.The Green Line: War G...

DescriptionFrom the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help the ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Roland PhilippsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 28Cover type: Paperback / ...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, par...

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

This book examines the constructions and representations of male and female Sikhs in Indian and diasporic literature and culture through the consid...

The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component...

Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Barbara (Y) DemickPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 200 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera far...

Since capitalism began, British workers have always fought for their rights. Today it's no different. -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Jane Ha...

Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, clas...

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 ye...

Globalization has become a widely used buzzword, yet popular discussions often miss its deeper realities. This book offers the first clear explanat...

The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian ...

Reducere. In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to...

This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi...

Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, U.S.Illustration(s): 181 color photos, 15 illus., 19 color illus., 1 map, 5 color maps, 30 ta...

Reducere. Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 56 colour & 60 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 253 x 195 x 27Cov...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Howard S. VeiszHenny and Her Boat provides a fresh perspective on the Danes' defense of their Jewish countrymen during year...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holde...

Reducere. Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ens...

Contributor(s): Author: Greg PrietoA portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession...