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Spectacular Modernity

Author : Lisa Blackmore
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982366
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Modernity written by Lisa Blackmore and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.

Refined Material

Author : Sean Nesselrode Moncada
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392469
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Refined Material written by Sean Nesselrode Moncada and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with the oil blowout in 1922 that is considered the moment that marked Venezuela's entry into a 'modern' era, Refined Material explores the integral relationship between Venezuelan oil industry and artistic production. In this groundbreaking study, Sean Nesselrode Moncada examines Venezuela's mid-century art and architecture in an argument that reinforces the inextricability of the rise of a capitalist and centralized state from life, activism, and art. Oil provided the crucible for national reinvention, ushering in a period of dizzying optimism and bitter disillusion as artists, architects, graphic designers, activists, and critics sought to define the terms of modernity. Looking at five different but interrelated case studies--a print magazine, a planned housing community, a luxury hotel, a kinetic museum installation, and a documentary film--this book brings forth a novel reading to the renowned Venezuelan modernist canon and reveals how the logic of refinement conditioned the terms of development and redefined our relationship to nature, matter, and one another"--

Así es Venezuela

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Así es Venezuela written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish Voices 1

Author : Matthew Aldrich
Publisher : Lingualism.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Voices 1 written by Matthew Aldrich and published by Lingualism.com. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Voices is a two-part series designed to provide learners with an opportunity to hear and study authentic Spanish as it is spoken by native speakers from around Latin America and Spain. Unlike the scripted materials read by voice actors used in many course books, Spanish Voices offers dozens of audio essays spoken naturally and off-the-cuff. The materials in the books are designed to help you improve your listening skills and expand your vocabulary in Spanish. Bonus: The MP3s can be downloaded for free from our website, where you can also find interactive flashcards, quizzes, and games, as well as links to further listening and reading practice on the topics presented in the segments (audio essay chapters). Each segment consists of: 1) True or False and Multiple Choice exercises to sharpen your listening skills and increase how much you can understand, whatever your level. 2) Vocabulary and Translation exercises to help you expand your vocabulary and improve your understanding of Spanish collocations and grammar. 3) In-chapter answers to the exercises (no having to flip back and forth to the back of the book). 4) Verbatim transcripts of the audio with side-by-side English translations. 5) Lined sections for note-taking and recording new vocabulary.

Catalog of the Latin American Collection

Author : University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of the Latin American Collection written by University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Only the People Can Save the People

Author : Donald V. Kingsbury
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438469659
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Only the People Can Save the People written by Donald V. Kingsbury and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a global historical moment of growing mobilizations against inequality, corruption, and exclusion, Only the People Can Save the People illustrates the necessity and challenges of more egalitarian approaches to collective life from one of the most tumultuous and compelling experiments in radical democracy. Donald V. Kingsbury examines twenty-first-century Venezuelan politics from the perspective of constituent power—the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy. In the aftermath of neoliberal structural adjustment, Venezuelan politics have been increasingly reconfigured according to principles of autogestión (self-management), social movement autonomy, protagonistic and participatory democracy, and anti-capitalism. However, inherited and intensifying challenges arising from Venezuela's status as a petrostate, the class and racial divisions that define its society, and the difficulties of defining what Hugo Chávez termed "socialism for the twenty-first century" have resulted in a tumultuous process of social change. Informed by ethnography, contemporary and comparative political thought, and global political economy, Only the People Can Save the People demonstrates how constituent power is shaping collective identity, political conflict, and infrastructural space in contemporary Latin America.

Humanities

Author : Lawrence Boudon
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292709102
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Humanities written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music

American Baroque

Author : Molly A. Warsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638983
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book American Baroque written by Molly A. Warsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroque charts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the genesis of its maritime empire. In the 1500s, licit and illicit trade in the jewel gave rise to global networks, connecting the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean to the pearl-producing regions of the Chesapeake and northern Europe. Pearls—a unique source of wealth because of their renewable, fungible, and portable nature—defied easy categorization. Their value was highly subjective and determined more by the individuals, free and enslaved, who produced, carried, traded, wore, and painted them than by imperial decrees and tax-related assessments. The irregular baroque pearl, often transformed by the imagination of a skilled artisan into a fantastical jewel, embodied this subjective appeal. Warsh blends environmental, social, and cultural history to construct microhistories of peoples' wide-ranging engagement with this deceptively simple jewel. Pearls facilitated imperial fantasy and personal ambition, adorned the wardrobes of monarchs and financed their wars, and played a crucial part in the survival strategies of diverse people of humble means. These stories, taken together, uncover early modern conceptions of wealth, from the hardscrabble shores of Caribbean islands to the lavish rooms of Mediterranean palaces.

Transactions of the Second International Sanitary Convention of the American Republics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Second International Sanitary Convention of the American Republics written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Hygiène and Public Health

Author : Alexander Wynter Blyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Hygiène and Public Health written by Alexander Wynter Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin American Modern Architectures

Author : Patricio del Real
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136234411
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Modern Architectures written by Patricio del Real and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known figures, such as Uruguayan architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Covering urban and territorial histories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with detailed building analyses, this book is your best source for historical and critical essays on a sampling of Latin America's diverse architecture, providing much-needed information on key case studies. Contributors include Noemí Adagio, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Luis Castañeda, Viviana d’Auria, George F. Flaherty, María González Pendás, Cristina López Uribe, Hugo Mondragón López, Jorge Nudelman Blejwas, Hugo Palmarola Sagredo, Gaia Piccarolo, Claudia Shmidt, Daniel Talesnik, and Paulo Tavares.

Author-title Catalog

Author : University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Author-title Catalog written by University of California, Berkeley. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treaty Series

Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Treaty Series written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Service List

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Service List written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes field staffs of Foreign Service, U.S. missions to international organizations, Agency for International Development, ACTION, U.S. Information Agency, Peace Corps, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Department of Army, Navy and Air Force

Mi historia comienza así...!

Author : Arly Leotaud
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300322357
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Mi historia comienza así...! written by Arly Leotaud and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Melquiades nos relata sus historias fuente de valores, sabiduría, alegrías y sobre todo, la clave de un ser humano excepcional: La humildad.

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 25 (2009)

Author : Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004530363
Total Pages : 1121 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 25 (2009) written by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Yearbook aims to contribute to a greater awareness of the functions and activities of the organs of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights.

Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II

Author : Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845655
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II by : Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka

Download or read book Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II written by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume, Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this book, representative of advanced independent research and that of an informed exercise in the application of a pragmatic framework, result from the Fourth Symposium on “New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics,” organized at the University of Łódź, Poland, in May 2008. Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut division between the research area of semantics and that of pragmatics, the volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of data which are best described as “semantically” limited. While Volume One concentrated on speech as a type of action, the present volume, without denying the inherently actional nature of language use, concentrates on limited contexts. Pragmatic phenomena in semantically-restricted domains are addressed from a variety of both theoretical and applied perspectives. The book is divided in three parts. Part One, “Pragmatics, Politics and Ideology,” gathers seven papers centered on issues pertaining to political linguistics. In Part Two, “The Pragmatics of Humour, Power and the Media,” there are eight papers which explore issues of politeness and modesty, pragmatic aspects of mediated and gendered discourse, or dynamicity of power relation in interaction. Part Three, “Focus on Textual Properties,” concentrates on text, excluding political discourse. It integrates discussions of equivalence and specialized translation, intertextual properties and pragmatically-motivated lexical choices in business communication, in law, and in science.