Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain, Hardcover - Ana Pulido Rull

Reducere. Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used...

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, a...

Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept "against ...

Reducere. A complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States an...

Reducere. DescriptionA complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The Unite...

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

Reducere. Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada's Indigenous people. "A Land Not Forgotten" examines the disruptions in local...

Reducere. This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship ...

From a fixed point in the middle of English nowhere, Vron Ware takes you through time and space to explain why transcending the urban-rural divide ...

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Reducere. How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in...

Confronts overlooked questions about how the hidden legal rules, private mechanisms and behaviours that shape capital investment matter for rights ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

DescriptionBetween 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Ma...

DescriptionA definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans During the eighteenth century, hu...

Reducere. Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all. But in th...

Reducere. An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...

Reducere. Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"--the lost promise of Black reparations fo...

DescriptionOriginally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been ...

What if we lived in a world where everyone had enough? A world where everyone mattered and where people lived in harmony with nature? What if the s...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressiv...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressIllustration(s): 26 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 376Collection: Indigenous AmericasPublicat...

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual ...

The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dianne RonnowWhy invest in land? You don't have to worry about tenants, insurance, and fixing up a house. Investing in land...

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DescriptionTake a seat--the captain's seat, that is--and relax. You're about to land a Boeing 747. The mystery of flight is magical; the reality, s...

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

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A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each ot...

A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each ot...

Reducere. In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A...

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

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Reducere. George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the n...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas ThomasIllustration(s): 181 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

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Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland. Their success rested partly on their being ke...

Garifuna Continuity in Land: Barranco Settlement and Land Use 1892 to 2000 traces the ownership and use of land in Barranco from the time of the fi...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Ottilie MulzetNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 114 x 176 x 17Cover type...

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines.

Reducere. Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texa...

Reducere. Mike Myers has been quoted as saying "There is no one more Canadian than a Canadian who no longer lives in Canada."In Marie Porter's experience - 1...