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Book Synopsis The Career of Doña Inés de Suárez by : Ann Keith Nauman
Download or read book The Career of Doña Inés de Suárez written by Ann Keith Nauman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the career of Dona Ines de Suarez, the first European woman in Chile whose contributions to the discovery and early development of Chile and its capital, Santiago, have been pushed aside. In this book, author pieces together the puzzle of Suarez's life and work.
Book Synopsis Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America by : James D. Henderson
Download or read book Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America written by James D. Henderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway. The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America. This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history. The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds. Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.
Book Synopsis Gender. Nation. Text. by : Lorraine Kelly
Download or read book Gender. Nation. Text. written by Lorraine Kelly and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the multifarious manifestations of gender intrinsic to national ideologies, the use of gender in the construction and development of nation states, and the role of political, literary, and cinematographic discourses in cultural debates that define national and international borders in post-colonial societies. The selected essays focus primarily on Europe and Latin America and consider the implications of colonialism, dictatorship, and the transition to democracy on national identities as well as the deliberate use of gendered language and images in the development of discourses of hegemony, frequently used to underpin support for individual political regimes, or as a call to arms to defend national patrimony. (Series: Cultural Studies / Kulturwissenschaft / Estudios Culturales / Etudes Culturelles, Vol. 55) [Subject: Gender Studies, Politics, Sociology, Cultural Studies]
Book Synopsis The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience by : Jacob J. Sauer
Download or read book The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience written by Jacob J. Sauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile. This examination is done through the lens of Resilience Theory, which has the potential to offer an interpretive framework for analyzing Araucanian culture through time and space. Resilience Theory describes “the capacity of a system to absorb disturbances and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain the same function.” The Araucanians incorporated certain Spanish material culture into their own, rejected others, and strategically restructured aspects of their political, economic, social, and ideological institutions in order to remain independent for over 350 years.
Book Synopsis Defending the Conquest by : Kris Lane
Download or read book Defending the Conquest written by Kris Lane and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of great benefit for scholars and teachers, this is the first English translation and critical edition of a rare refutation of Bartolomé de las Casas’s famous 1552 Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, one of the most influential texts of the sixteenth century. The Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests, written by the Spanish soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca about 1603, provides valuable insights into the other side of the debate over the morality of the Spanish conquest.
Book Synopsis Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean by : Kathryn A. Sloan
Download or read book Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Kathryn A. Sloan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history. Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights their varied and important roles over five centuries of time, providing geographical breadth and ethnic diversity to the Women's Roles through History series. Women's roles are the focus of all six chapters, covering themes that include religion, family, law, politics, culture, and labor. Each section provides specific examples of real-life women throughout history, providing readers with an overview of Latin American women's history that pays special attention to continuity across regions and variances over time and geography.
Download or read book Humanities written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review 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, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2000, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 1999. The subject categories for Volume 60 are as follows: Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Music Philosophy: Latin American Thought
Book Synopsis The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set by : Bonnie G. Smith
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history.The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes.The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 60 by : Lawrence Boudon
Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 60 written by Lawrence Boudon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review 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, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2000, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 1999. The subject categories for Volume 60 are as follows: Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Music Philosophy: Latin American Thought
Book Synopsis Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by : Jennifer Uglow
Download or read book Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography written by Jennifer Uglow and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-27 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential details of the lives of over 2000 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. The new entries include women who have hit the headlines in the past five years - from Cory Aquino to Madonna - but the historical coverage has also been broadened in response to new research and a special new feature is the extended treatment of women from Third World countries. With subsections for further reading, comprehensive subject index and bibliographical survey, the Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography is an invaluable reference source - and a fascinating bed-time read.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez by : Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez written by Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biographical study of two-time President Carlos Andres Perez, one of the architects of contemporary Venezuelan history." From Amazon.
Book Synopsis Popular Art and Social Change in the Retablos of Nicario Jiménez Quispe by : Carol Damian
Download or read book Popular Art and Social Change in the Retablos of Nicario Jiménez Quispe written by Carol Damian and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quispe is a Quechua speaker from the highlands of the Peruvian Andes, and an artist of the retablo, a folk and popular art form that descended from European portable altars featuring images of venerated saints and virgins that Spanish colonizers brought with them in the 16th and 17th centuries. US scholars of history, art history, and Spanish explore the evolution of the art form, Quispe's testimonial retablos, art as autobiography, Quispe's arrival to El Norte, and his art in the 21st century. Interviews with him are also provided, as are several monochrome photographs of his work. A recurring theme is the tension between tradition and change in the genre and the culture generally. The text is double spaced and not indexed. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Book Synopsis A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile: The first period of the Pinochet government, 1973-1980 by : Mario I. Aguilar
Download or read book A Social History of the Catholic Church in Chile: The first period of the Pinochet government, 1973-1980 written by Mario I. Aguilar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of a social history of the Catholic Church in Chile describes and interprets the historiography of bishops, priests, religious, Christian communities and lay people during the years 1973-1980 by the use of ecclesiastical primary sources and oral testimonies. In 1973 Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that had enormous repercussions for the history of Chile and for the pastoral actions of the Catholic Church led by Cardinal Silva Henriquez. This book examines the historiography of the period in the context of the universal church, the Latin American churches and the development of a very strong network of parish communities that sheltered the persecuted and defended the right of the Church to speak against a totalitarian state. Its author has used a significantly large number of unpublished and unknown primary historical sources that make this volume the most significant historical work in English for the history of the Chilean Church from the military coup to the approval of the new Chilean Constitution in 1980. findings of human remains of political prisoners at Lonquen and it analyses the role of the Church within that social process.
Book Synopsis Economic Performance Under Democratic Regimes in Latin America in the Twenty-first Century by : Lowell S. Gustafson
Download or read book Economic Performance Under Democratic Regimes in Latin America in the Twenty-first Century written by Lowell S. Gustafson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays analyzes why Latin America's new democracies had to abandon a state-centred development strategy to confront the new realities. Essays include up-to-date studies of contemporary Mexico, Argentina, and Chile, and regional comparisons with industrial states in Asia.
Book Synopsis Radical Journalists, Generalist Intellectuals, and U.S.-Latin American Relations by : Virginia S. Williams
Download or read book Radical Journalists, Generalist Intellectuals, and U.S.-Latin American Relations written by Virginia S. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work details the thoughts of five non-mainstream intellectuals who attempted to re-shape the way Latin America was perceived by the United States during the first six decades of the 20th century. The works of the alternative intellectuals are an important component of the literature, but much of their work has been relegated to obscurity because they were educated generalists who crossed disciplinary boundaries and disciplines. They anticipated the scholarship of the 1960s-70s in which questions arose about Latin American dependency and nationalism, and wrote about the more subtle forms of imperialism - indirect control through economic means - long before most American scholars of Latin America followed suit. Individuals examined are Herschel Brickell, Samuel Guy Inman, Carleton Beals, Waldo Frank, and Frank Tannenbaum.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: The early years by : Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: The early years written by Hollis Micheal Tarver Denova and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical study of two-time President Carlos Andres Perez, one of the architects of contemporary Venezuelan history.
Book Synopsis Rediscovering the Language of the Tribe in Modern Venezulan Poetry by : Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
Download or read book Rediscovering the Language of the Tribe in Modern Venezulan Poetry written by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the work of two revolutionary modern poet groups, Trafico and Guaire. The poets of these groups, heady with the success of one of Latin America's oldest democracies, and reared in the optimistic climate of the petroleum boom, felt sure of their ability to defy their poetic predessors be revitalising poetry with a populist infusion of everyday images and colloquial language. Using a cultural studies approach, this work examines the historical and cultural context of the poetic revolution they achieved, and discusses specific texts by many of the members, including Armando Rojas Guardia, Yolanda Pantin, Rafael Castill Zapata, Igor Barreto, Miguel Marquez and Rafael Arraiz Lucca. Textual analysis and consideration of cultural influences show how the main temes of the poets' work: everyday life, alienation, love and self-reflective metapoetry reflect the specific modern, urban enviroment of Caracas in the early 1980s.
