Theater of a Thousand Wonders

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108107699
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Theater of a Thousand Wonders by : William B. Taylor

Download or read book Theater of a Thousand Wonders written by William B. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.

Our Lady of Good Success

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Publisher : Tradition in Action
ISBN 13 : 9780967216614
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Lady of Good Success by : Marian Therese Horvat

Download or read book Our Lady of Good Success written by Marian Therese Horvat and published by Tradition in Action. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the most important revelations in the 17th century of Our Lady to a Conceptionist nun in Quito, Ecuador. Our Lady told her that a great crisis in the Church would begin in the middle of the 20th century and continue to our days.

The Spanish American Reader

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Book Synopsis The Spanish American Reader by : Ernesto Nelson

Download or read book The Spanish American Reader written by Ernesto Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La Historia y Novena de Nuestra Señora Del Buen Suceso

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ISBN 13 : 9780988372382
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book La Historia y Novena de Nuestra Señora Del Buen Suceso written by Rev P. Manuel Sousa Pereira and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El 16 de enero 1599, la Santisima Madre de Dios se aparecio a la Madre Mariana de Jesus Torres en el Convento de la Inmaculada Concepcion en Quito, Ecuador, para pedirle que tenga una estatua de si misma como ella aparecio, con el Nino Jesus en su el brazo izquierdo y un baculo y las llaves del claustro en su mano derecha. Nuestra Senora sostiene el baculo como una senal de que ella gobierna el convento y asimismo pidio que su estatua se coloco sobre el trono de la abadesa, donde la estatua aun se conserva hasta nuestros dias. La estatua fue consagrada por el obispo de Quito el 2 de febrero de 1611, con el titulo: "Maria del Buen Suceso de la Purificacion o Candelaria." Durante las diversas apariciones otorgados a la Madre Marianna hasta su muerte el 16 de enero de 1635, Nuestra Senora del Buen Sueso predijo los males de nuestro tiempo con gran detalle. Le dijeron que sus visiones y la vida solo se conocen a partir del siglo XX, y se le pidio ayudar con sus oraciones y penitencias las almas de la epoca en la que habria una enorme decadencia de la fe. Fue la voluntad de Dios para reservar estas revelaciones y el relato de la vida de la Madre Mariana de nuestro tiempo, cuando la corrupcion de comportamiento es universal y la preciosa luz de la fe esta casi extinguida, el cumplimiento de las profecias de Nuestra Senora. La Madre de Dios tambien predijo que esta devocion se alcanzaran misericordia y perdon para todos los pecadores que acuden a ella con un corazon contrito ya que ella es la Madre de la Misericordia. Del mismo modo, dijo, "El titulo consoladora del Buen Suceso... sera el apoyo y salvaguarda de la fe en la presencia de la corrupcion completa del siglo XX."

A Spanish Mystic in Quito

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ISBN 13 : 9781877905186
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Spanish Mystic in Quito by : Luis E. Cadena y Almeida

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Compendium and Description of the West Indies (Classic Reprint)

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390929508
Total Pages : 882 pages
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Book Synopsis Compendium and Description of the West Indies (Classic Reprint) by : Antonio Vazquez de Espinoza

Download or read book Compendium and Description of the West Indies (Classic Reprint) written by Antonio Vazquez de Espinoza and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Compendium and Description of the West Indies This last is our present work, and so little known to the compiler of this sketch that he cites it with a Latin title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Dawn of Astronomy

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486450120
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dawn of Astronomy by : J. Norman Lockyer

Download or read book The Dawn of Astronomy written by J. Norman Lockyer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the fields of astrophysics and astro-archeology, J. Norman Lockyer believed that ancient Egyptian monuments were constructed "in strict relation to the stars." In this celebrated study, he explores the relationship between astronomy and architecture in the age of the pharaohs. Lockyer addresses one of the many points already extensively investigated by Egyptologists: the chronology of the kings of Egypt. All experts are in accord regarding the identity of the first monarch, but they cannot agree upon the dates of his reign within a thousand years. The author contends that by applying a knowledge of astronomy to the actual site orientation of the region's pyramids and temples, accurate dating can be achieved. In order to accomplish this, Lockyer had to determine the level of the ancient Egyptian ideas of astronomy. Some of his inferences have been invalidated by subsequent scholarship, but many of his other conclusions stand firm and continue to provide sensational leads into contemporary understanding of archaic astronomy.

Writing Across Cultures

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352931
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Across Cultures by : Angel Rama

Download or read book Writing Across Cultures written by Angel Rama and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.

On Becoming Cuban

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469601419
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis On Becoming Cuban by : Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Download or read book On Becoming Cuban written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.

Saracen Tales

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Publisher : Crossings
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Saracen Tales by : Giuseppe Bonaviri

Download or read book Saracen Tales written by Giuseppe Bonaviri and published by Crossings. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the Italian by Barbara De Marco. In SARACEN TALES, Italian-born Giuseppe Bonaviri brings a wild newness to the tale of the life of Jesus. In this succession of stories, Bonaviri explores all manners of the known and unknown, the archetypal, the mythological, the symbolic--the life of Jesus is both his material and his point of departure. Part surrealism, part folklore, readers will be amazed at the originality and creativity with which a long-familiar tale is presented. "Bonaviri is a myth-maker, looking simultaneously to the historical past and to the future, to arrive at the a-historical, at cosmic universality"--Franco Zangrilli. Giuseppe Bonaviri was born in 1924 in Sicily. He began writing when he was ten and continued through high school, college, and in his professional life as a doctor, health official, and cardiologist. His work has been widely translated.

The Spanish Army in North America 1700–1793

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849085986
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis The Spanish Army in North America 1700–1793 by : René Chartrand

Download or read book The Spanish Army in North America 1700–1793 written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before England established a serious presence in the New World, Spain had already established an overseas Empire. In North America, this included vast tracts of territory including most of what today comprises the states of Florida, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Illinois and California. In later years, as the British and the French came to expand their claims, they often came into conflict with the Spanish. The Spanish also played a significant part during the American Revolution, fighting against the British and drawing off forces needed to fight the Americans. This book covers all of the North American Spanish forces that fought in the campaigns of the 18th century.

Bilingual

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674056450
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Bilingual by : François Grosjean

Download or read book Bilingual written by François Grosjean and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets of life with two or more languages.

Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278)

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107019782
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278) by : Clive L. N. Ruggles

Download or read book Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278) written by Clive L. N. Ruggles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU Symposium 278, the ninth of the 'Oxford' conferences on cultural astronomy, presents a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives on a set of problems that continue to raise exciting and challenging new research questions and promote vigorous debate. It extends discussions about cultural astronomy beyond the community of 'Western' academics to focus on the ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy of South America, Central and North America, and elsewhere. Highlights include vigourous debates about Chankillo, a recently discovered solar observation site in coastal Peru dating to c. 300 BC. The first IAU Symposium devoted to this topic not only discusses new discoveries and interpretations but also considers broader issues of mutual interest across disciplines in cultural astronomy, such as field methodology and social theory. This volume is valuable not just to researchers working in these fields, but to anyone who takes an interest in the protection of astronomical heritage.

Malevolent Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Malevolent Tales by : Clemente Palma

Download or read book Malevolent Tales written by Clemente Palma and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My 15 Grandmothers

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781478297079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book My 15 Grandmothers written by Genie Milgrom and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Genie Milgrom was born in Havana, Cuba, into a Roman Catholic family of Spanish ancestry. At the age of five, during the Cuban Revolution, her family immigrated to the United States, and she has lived in Miami, Florida, ever since. Genie was always interested in her family genealogy, but when she learned of the possibility of having Converso Jewish roots, her search for the truth about her family's past took on a deeper significance...She was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage, going back as far as 1480, to Pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal" -- Back cover.

The Texas Connection with the American Revolution

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ISBN 13 : 9781571684189
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis The Texas Connection with the American Revolution by : Robert H. Thonhoff

Download or read book The Texas Connection with the American Revolution written by Robert H. Thonhoff and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English colonies. Important as they were, they do not tell the whole story. An oft-neglected part of it concerns the role of Spain in the American Revolution. A generally unknown part of it is the Texas connection. Overlooked by most historians much too long, the contribution of Spain, Texas included, was vital in the winning of American independence two hundred years ago.

Theater of a Thousand Wonders

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107102677
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Theater of a Thousand Wonders by : William B. Taylor

Download or read book Theater of a Thousand Wonders written by William B. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.