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Conquistadora

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030738859X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Conquistadora written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.

La Conquistadora

Author : Amy G. Remensnyder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199893004
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Amy G. Remensnyder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Conquistadora explores Mary's prominence on and off the battlefield in the culturally and ethnically diverse world of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived side by side, and in colonial Mexico, where Spaniards and indigenous peoples mingled.

La Conquistadora

Author : Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913270431
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Angelico Chavez and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as an autobiography, the author lets this famous willow wood statue speak for herself, tell her own story from the time she was brought to New Mexico in 1625 by Fray Benavides until the present. Many photographs bring this remarkable history to life. Fray Ang lico researched, translated and annotated facts about the statue's history, its religious society, its fiestas and chapels, correcting the mistakes and folklore held as truth for more than two centuries. Fray Ang lico Ch vez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his career, Fray Ang lico Ch vez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest. In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Ch vez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed him. In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Ang lico managed to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the imprint of his religious perspective. During nearly seventy years of writing, he published almost two dozen books. Among them were novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories. Sunstone Press has brought back into print some of these rare titles.

When I Was Puerto Rican

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Palabra
ISBN 13 : 9780306814525
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book When I Was Puerto Rican written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Palabra. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.

La Conquistadora

Author : Sue Houser
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865348308
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Sue Houser and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest image of the Virgin Mary in the United States―a petite wooden statue―accompanied Spanish Conquistadors and missionaries to the Kingdom of Nuevo México in 1625. Her existence has been tumultuous. She was rescued from a burning church, kidnapped and held for ransom, and had her wooden form mutilated and remade. This book conveys the essence of devotion given to the statue who is yearly celebrated at "La Fiesta de Santa Fe" and yearly carried in procession based on a promise made over 300 years ago. She is the Queen of New Mexico, enthroned in her own chapel at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in the heart of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has the wardrobe of a Spanish Queen with over 200 exquisite gowns and priceless crowns and jewelry. Her name is La Conquistadora, "Our Lady of the Conquest." Was she a conqueror of territories or a conqueror of hearts and healer of human weaknesses? This is her story. Sue Houser is a native of New Mexico and is interested in preserving the history and culture of the state. A retired social worker, she writes about the inspiration and passion behind the stories. This is her second historical, non-fiction book.

La Conquistadora

Author : Jaima Chevalier
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865347891
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book La Conquistadora written by Jaima Chevalier and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few religious icons dominate and inspire their subjects as powerfully as La Conquistadora, America's Oldest Madonna, has over the centuries. La Conquistadora's origins are shrouded in mystery, but Chevalier unveils surprising new information about this icon's amazing provenance and past.

Conquistador

Author : S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101043938
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Conquistador written by S. M. Stirling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?”—Publishers Weekly Oakland, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, has made a fabulous discovery: A portal to an alternate America where Europeans have never set foot—and the only other humans in sight are a band of very curious Indians. Able to return at will to the modern world, Rolfe summons the only people with whom he is willing to share his discovery: his war buddies. And tells them to bring their families... Los Angeles, twenty-first century. Fish and Game warden Tom Christiansen is involved in the bust of a smuggling operation. What he turns up is something he never anticipated: a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead T-shirts, and a live condor from a gene pool that doesn’t correspond to any known in captivity or the wild. It is a find that will lead him to a woman named Adrienne Rolfe—and a secret that’s been hidden for sixty years…

Conquistadora

Author : Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030759677X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Conquistadora written by Esmeralda Santiago and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the award-winning, bestselling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. • “Santiago’s storytelling is thrilling.... A triumph.” —The Washington Post As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home. This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.

María de Estrada

Author : Gloria Durán
Publisher : Discoveries (Latin American Li
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book María de Estrada written by Gloria Durán and published by Discoveries (Latin American Li. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized biography of a Spanish swordswoman who flees the Inquisition and takes part with Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. After which she enters politics and becomes a champion of Indian rights.

Don Diego de Vargas

Author : Rosemary Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Don Diego de Vargas written by Rosemary Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Lady of Controversy

Author : Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029274501X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of Controversy written by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition. Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist's intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of the fifty most important living women historians in America). Accompanied by a bonus DVD of Alma López's I Love Lupe video that looks at the Chicana artistic tradition of reimagining la Virgen de Guadalupe, featuring a historic conversation between Yolanda López, Ester Hernández, and Alma López, Our Lady of Controversy promises to ignite important new dialogues.

Santa Fe Hispanic Culture

Author : Andrew Leo Lovato
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826332264
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Hispanic Culture written by Andrew Leo Lovato and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.

The Myth of Santa Fe

Author : Chris Wilson
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317469
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Santa Fe written by Chris Wilson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.

Our Lady of the Conquest

Author : Fray Angelico Chavez
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865347476
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of the Conquest written by Fray Angelico Chavez and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chvez details the origins and development of America's oldest devotion to the Virgin Mary--Our Lady of the Conquest in Santa Fe--in a scholarly yet devout manner.

Fray Angélico Chávez

Author : Ellen McCracken
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826328490
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Fray Angélico Chávez written by Ellen McCracken and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico's first Franciscan priest, Fray Angélico Cheavez (1910-1996) is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual who played a vital role in Santa Fe's community of writers. The original essays collected here explore his wide-ranging cultural production: fiction, poetry, architectural restoration, journalism, genealogy, translation, and painting and drawing. Several essays discuss his approach to history, his archival research, and the way in which he re-centers ethnic identity in the prevalent Anglo-American master historical narrative. Others examine how he used fiction to bring history alive and combined visual and verbal elements to enhance his narratives. Two essays explore Chávez's profession as a friar. The collection ends with recollections by Thomas E. Chávez, historian and Fray Angélico's nephew. Readers familiar with Chávez's work as well as those learning about it for the first time will find much that surprises and informs in these essays. Part of the Pasó por Aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage

Chicano Folklore

Author : Rafaela Castro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195146394
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Chicano Folklore written by Rafaela Castro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.

Spiritual Writings on Mary

Author : Mary Ford-Grabowsky
Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1594730016
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Writings on Mary written by Mary Ford-Grabowsky and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores a collection of writings on Mary, the mother of Jesus, dating from the time of the Hebrew Bible prophecies to the present. Sacred poems, prayers, hymns and songs, scriptural passages, and prose pieces illustrative of the unbroken river of reflection, devotion, and love that Mary inspires.