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Borderlands Saints

Author : Desirée A. Martín
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570581
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Borderlands Saints written by Desirée A. Martín and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), Pancho Villa, César Chávez, Subcomandante Marcos, and Santa Muerte, she traces the intersections of these figures, their devotees, artistic representations, and dominant institutions with an eye for the ways in which such unofficial saints mirror traditional spiritual practices and serve specific cultural needs. Popular spirituality of this kind engages the use and exchange of relics, faith healing, pilgrimages, and spirit possession, exemplifying the contradictions between high and popular culture, human and divine, and secular and sacred. Martín focuses upon a wide range of Mexican and Chicano/a cultural works drawn from the nineteenth century to the present, covering such diverse genres as the novel, the communiqué, drama, the essay or crónica, film, and contemporary digital media. She argues that spiritual practice is often represented as narrative, while narrative—whether literary, historical, visual, or oral—may modify or even function as devotional practice.

Spirits of the Border

Author : Ken Hudnall
Publisher : Omega Press
ISBN 13 : 9780962608780
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Spirits of the Border written by Ken Hudnall and published by Omega Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unsolved Mysteries of the Old West

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589797418
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Unsolved Mysteries of the Old West written by W. C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two subjects continue to fascinate people--the Old West and a good mystery. This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old West's most baffling mysteries, which lure the curious and beg for investigation even though their solutions have eluded experts for decades. Many relate to the death or disappearance of some of the best-known lawmen and outlaws in history, such as Billy the Kid, Buckskin Frank Leslie, John Wilkes Booth, The Catalina Kid, and Butch Cassidy. Others involve mysterious tales and legends of lost mines and buried treasures that have not been recovered--yet.

The Life and Times of Pancho Villa

Author : Friedrich Katz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804765170
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Pancho Villa written by Friedrich Katz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United States since the War of 1812 and gotten away with it. Whether exaggerated or true to life, these legends have resulted in Pancho Villa the leader obscuring his revolutionary movement, and the myth in turn obscuring the leader. Based on decades of research in the archives of seven countries, this definitive study of Villa aims to separate myth from history. So much attention has focused on Villa himself that the characteristics of his movement, which is unique in Latin American history and in some ways unique among twentieth-century revolutions, have been forgotten or neglected. Villa’s División del Norte was probably the largest revolutionary army that Latin America ever produced. Moreover, this was one of the few revolutionary movements with which a U.S. administration attempted, not only to come to terms, but even to forge an alliance. In contrast to Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, Villa came from the lower classes of society, had little education, and organized no political party. The first part of the book deals with Villa’s early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a secondary leader of the Mexican Revolution, and also discusses the special conditions that transformed the state of Chihuahua into a leading center of revolution. In the second part, beginning in 1913, Villa emerges as a national leader. The author analyzes the nature of his revolutionary movement and the impact of Villismo as an ideology and as a social movement. The third part of the book deals with the years 1915 to 1920: Villa’s guerrilla warfare, his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and his subsequent decline. The last part describes Villa’s surrender, his brief life as a hacendado, his assassination and its aftermath, and the evolution of the Villa legend. The book concludes with an assessment of Villa’s personality and the character and impact of his movement.

The Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum

Author : Carol C. Mattusch
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892367221
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book The Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum-buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750-contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts. Before they were published or exhibited, the sculptures were restored so as to appear whole: it is thus that they helped to shape early modern tastes in classical sculpture. The book describes the nature of the ancient sculptures and their impact on the modern public. Their chance discovery affected the interpretation of the statues-their styles and subjects-over the course of the next 250 years. The ancient sculptures were copied extensively in reproductions of various sizes and patinas. The author traces the popularity of these copies in Europe and America. Also presented in the book is a technical study of the production techniques and materials of the sculptures, as well as of their modern restoration history. Scientific analyses and detailed photographs reveal both how the pieces were cast and pieced together in antiquity and how they were restored in the eighteenth century. Even though this collection has been known for two and a half centuries, this book covers for the first time the eclectic nature of the sculptures, their acutual condition, and their quality, pointing in some cases to mass production.

The Gentleman's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.

El Paso: A Novel

Author : Winston Groom
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163149225X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book El Paso: A Novel written by Winston Groom and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestseller • Southern Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller • Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Three decades after the first publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with this sweeping American epic. Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known only as the Colonel—whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. But when Villa kidnaps the Colonel’s grandchildren and absconds into the Sierra Madre, the aging New England patriarch and his son head to El Paso, hoping to find a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the Generalissimo. Replete with gunfights, daring escapes, and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso becomes an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the waning days of the frontier, one that is “sure to entertain” (Jackson Clarion-Ledger).

An Historical Description of Ancient and Modern Rome; Also of the Works of Art, Particularly in Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. To which are Added, a Tour Through the Cities and Towns in the Environs of that Metropolis, and an Account of the Antiquities Found at Gabia. Carefully Collated with the Best Authorities, by J. Salmon ... In Two Volumes ...

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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Author : J. Salmon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book An Historical Description of Ancient and Modern Rome; written by J. Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Head Games

Author : Craig McDonald
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781932557435
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Head Games written by Craig McDonald and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery that is a wistful ballad of lost America

The Journal of Hellenic Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Hellenic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-8, 1880-87, plates published separately and numbered I-LXXXIII.

Alicia in Wonder Tierra, Or, I Can't Eat Goat Head

Author : Silvia Gonzalez S.
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871295989
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Alicia in Wonder Tierra, Or, I Can't Eat Goat Head written by Silvia Gonzalez S. and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soldier of Fortune

Author : Douglas V. Meed
Publisher : Halcyon Press Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1931823057
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Soldier of Fortune written by Douglas V. Meed and published by Halcyon Press Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier of Fortune traces the bold and adventurous career of Emil Holmdahl, one of that swashbuckling breed of mercenaries growing out of the United States' imperialistic years during the early twentieth century. Following Holmdahl from the Philippine Insurrection, through the "banana wars" in Central America, onto the bloody stage of the Mexican Revolution and World War I, Douglas Meed captures the drama and adventure not only of Holmdahl, but of the United States' quest to become a major world power. Holmdahl's adventures in Mexico shed new light on revolutionary activities and the struggle for power, including the death of revolutionary leader Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Meed suggests that Holmdahl may have been the man who opened Villa's grave, cut off his head, and sold it to a Mexican general. The author captures the excitement and spirit of adventure in those bloody years, while Holmdahl's life mirrors the end of one era and the beginning of another -- from the twilight of the era of horse-driven armies to the age of industrial warfare. Soldier of Fortune is a fascinating account of a bygone age, and forms a distinctive addition to the annals of the American Southwest. Book jacket.

Mexican-American Folklore

Author : John O. West
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874830590
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mexican-American Folklore written by John O. West and published by august house. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers riddles, rhymes, folk poetry, stories, ballads, superstitions, customs, games, foods, and folk arts of the Mexican-Americans

The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pancho Villa's Golden Hawks

Author : Carlos H. Cantu
Publisher : LibrosEnRed
ISBN 13 : 9875611026
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Pancho Villa's Golden Hawks written by Carlos H. Cantu and published by LibrosEnRed. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courage, daring, heroism and romance, turn it into a vivid fast-paced narrative that will satiate lovers of action adventure literature, giving them a true to life picture of famous Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.