Latin American History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 6

The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (1619-1640)

The fragile vellum pages of The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (El libro de los difuntos) contain a Nahuatl-language registry of over twenty-five hundred Indigenous people who succumbed epidemic diseas…

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Roberto E Villarreal
Yo Soy

Yo Soyis a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal's life struggle for social justice and equality and a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture, forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his…

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Norma E Cantú
Fiestas in Laredo

This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author …

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Víctor Goldgel Carballo
Racial Doubt

With a focus on nineteenth-century Cuba, Víctor Goldgel Carballo conceptualizes the analytical category of racial doubt: the hesitation produced by divergent, contradictory, or ambiguous understandings of…

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Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America

In this collection, artists and researchers collaborate to explore the anti-racist effects of diverse artistic practices, specifically theatre, dance, visual art and music. By integrating the experiences …

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María de Lourdes Ghidoli
Stereotypes in Black

Stereotypes in Black is a sharp examination of the representations and self-representations of Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires through the nineteenth century. Originally published in Spanish, this Englis…

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Rajeshwari Dutt
The Link That Divides

This important book illuminates the deeply intertwined histories of the Nicaragua Canal and the Afro-Indigenous Mosquito Coast, uncovering a compelling truth, long overshadowed by the triumphalist narrati…

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Rajeshwari Dutt
The Link That Divides

This important book illuminates the deeply intertwined histories of the Nicaragua Canal and the Afro-Indigenous Mosquito Coast, uncovering a compelling truth, long overshadowed by the triumphalist narrati…

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Max Deardorff
A Tale of Two Granadas

In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Sp…

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Sergio Serulnikov
The Power of Dissent

The Power of Dissent examines the crisis of Spanish rule through the changing political culture of Chuquisaca (Bolivia), the most important city in the southern Andes. Sergio Serulnikov argues that in the…

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Alejandro De La Fuente, Cary Aileen García Yero
My Own Past

In late eighteenth-century Havana, residents frequently referred to the existence of large communities of negros and pardos as 'officers in the trade of painter' and the authors of 'exquisite works.' But …

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Maximilian Fritz Feichtner
The Metamorphosis of the Amazon

The Metamorphosis of the Amazon sheds new light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest, revealing how oil development and its social and ecological repercussions triggered its metamorphosis. …

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Frank Hopkinson
America Then and Now

This book offers a window into history: to the most famous conflicts fought on American soil, the triumphant victories of its sporting events and even journeys to race in space which jettisoned from the l…

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Cocaine

This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry.Cocaine: T he Global Reach of th…

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Martine Jean
Policing Freedom

Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population du…

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Stephanie Schmidt
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain

Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.

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Fernando Pérez-Montesinos
Landscaping Indigenous Mexico

A history of the Purépecha people's survival amid environmental and political changes.

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Joseph M H Clark
Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century

In the seventeenth century, Veracruz was the busiest port in the wealthiest colony in the Americas. People and goods from five continents converged in the city, inserting it firmly into the early modern w…

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Agnes Gehbald
A Colonial Book Market

This volume provides a wholly original social history of books in late colonial Peru. From the second half of the eighteenth century onward, workshops in Lima and transoceanic imports supplied the market …

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Emily Wakild
A Moderating Force

Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land was managed, national governments set aside protecte…

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