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Conquistadoras

Author : Carlos B. Vega
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482087
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Conquistadoras written by Carlos B. Vega and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period--Spanish, Indian, and black--who held a wide variety of leadership positions. The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Cortes, Pizarro, Alvarado, todos ellos hombres conocidos y famosos. Pero y las mujeres? Si bien fue el hombre el que mayormente cargo sobre sus hombros la empresa conquistadora, muchas fueron las mujeres que tambien formaron parte de tal epopeya. Sin embargo, la historia les paso por encima y las relego al triste olvido. Esta obra se empena en hacerles justicia historica a estas mujeres, destacando sus vidas y hazanas sobre todo a ocho de ellas, quizas las mas conocidas, pero no las unicas. Fueron mujeres excepcionales, resolutas, integras, juiciosas, prontas a echar un pie adelante cuando las circunstancias asi lo exigieron, pero, vale recalcar, sin renunciar en ningun momento a sus dotes de madres y esposas. De las ocho mujeres, seis fueron espanolas y dos indigenas, incluyendose, ademas, a unas cuarenta mas aunque en menos detalle. La obra rebosa humanidad y sentido historico y esta escrita en un lenguaje pulcro y sencillo, al alcance de todo tipo de lector. Sus fuentes son rigurosamente historicas y fidedignas, fruto de las mas excelsas plumas a ambos lados del Atlantico y pertenecientes a todas las epocas, incluyendo, claro esta, a los primitivos cronistas de Indias.

Spain

Author : Richard Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135272581
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Spain written by Richard Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses the evolution of Spain's external relations during the 1990s, within and beyond Europe, and assesses the principal challenges facing the country at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The coincidence of several crucial global and European developments has had a profound effect on Spain. Adjustment of the economy and changes in foreign policy perspectives have become unavoidable. In turn, Spain, as an increasingly self-confident member of the EU, has itself become a significant actor in European-level developments. Spain's relationship with Europe and the wider world is increasingly balanced between new constraints and new opportunities for international influence.

Hispanic-American History

Author : William Whatley Pierson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hispanic-American History written by William Whatley Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anxieties of Experience

Author : Jeffrey Lawrence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190690216
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Anxieties of Experience written by Jeffrey Lawrence and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World literature derives from an author's first-hand contact with American places and peoples or from a creative (mis)reading of existing traditions, the book charts a widening gap in how modern US and Latin American writers defined their literary authority. In the process, it traces the development of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the "US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of the reader." Reinterpreting a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Anxieties of Experience shows how this hemispheric literary divide fueled a series of anxieties, misunderstandings, and "misencounters" between US and Latin American authors. In the wake of recent calls to rethink the "common grounds" approach to literature across the Americas, the book advocates a comparative approach that highlights the distinct logics of production and legitimation in the US and Latin American literary fields. Anxieties of Experience closes by exploring the convergence of the literature of experience and the literature of the reader in the first decades of the twenty-first century, arguing that the post-Bolaño moment has produced the strongest signs of a truly reciprocal literature of the Americas in more than a hundred years.

Catalog of the Latin American Collection

Author : University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 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 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes]

Author : David F. Marley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075745
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes] by : David F. Marley

Download or read book Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes] written by David F. Marley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.

The King's Living Image

Author : Alejandro Caneque
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135945098
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The King's Living Image written by Alejandro Caneque and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of viceregal power and its relation to ideas of kingship. Examining this figure, The King's Living Image challenges long-held perspectives on the political nature of Spanish colonialism, recovering, at the same time, the complexity of the political discourses and practices of Spanish rule. It does so by studying the viceregal political culture that developed in New Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the mechanisms, both formal and informal, of viceregal rule. In so doing, The King's Living Image questions the very existence of a "colonial state" and contends that imperial power was constituted in ritual ceremonies. It also emphasizes the viceroys' significance in carrying out the civilizing mission of the Spanish monarchy with regard to the indigenous population. The King's Living Image will redefine the ways in which scholars have traditionally looked at the viceregal administration in colonial Mexico.

The Transatlantic Las Casas

Author : Rady Roldán-Figueroa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004515917
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Transatlantic Las Casas written by Rady Roldán-Figueroa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding to the momentum of Lascasian Studies, this interdisciplinary effort of seventeen scholars offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies.

Flower World - Mundo Florido

Author : Alexander Herrera Wassilowski
Publisher : Ekho Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3944415469
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Flower World - Mundo Florido written by Alexander Herrera Wassilowski and published by Ekho Verlag. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bilingual series Flower World - Music Archaeology of the Americas raises the study of ancient music and music-related activities of the pre-Columbian Americas to the next level. For the first time in the history of science, a series offering anthologies featuring scientific investigations in this fascinating multidisciplinary field is available. The series encompasses peer-reviewed studies by renowned scholars on both past and living music traditions from South, Central and North America, and thus constitute a platform for the most up-to-date information on the music archaeology of the continent. It features case studies and the results of research projects in the field, in which a great variety of music-archaeological approaches, such as conventional archaeology - for the interpretation of the find contexts, experimental archaeology - for reconstructive instrument making and playing, ethnohistory and ethnolinguistics - for the interpretation of textual sources, music iconology - for the interpretation if visual sources, organology and acoustics, and ethnomusicology - for the research on contemporary legacies - for the study of the instrument finds, are commonly applied. The title of the series, Flower World, refers to a mythological, even sacred place filled with the sweet scent of flowers, bird calls, pleasant sounds, and dance. It is a place full of happiness and joy, even if it belongs to the realm of the Dead, which sustains the enduring renewal of life on earth.

La Casa de Cumpleanos de Wilbur

Author : Andy Nicholaw
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1682131378
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book La Casa de Cumpleanos de Wilbur written by Andy Nicholaw and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

The Philippine Review

Author : Gregorio Nieva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Philippine Review written by Gregorio Nieva and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inter-America

Author : James Cook Bardin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Inter-America written by James Cook Bardin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of English translations of articles in the Spanish American press.

The Timberman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Timberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro

Author : Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469671115
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro written by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out. Evolving technology accelerated the flow of matter and energy moving through the extractive systems of exhausted mines and revived profitability over and over again in Mexico's mining districts. Studnicki-Gizbert demonstrates how this serial reanimation of a non-renewable resource was catalyzed by capital and supported by state policy and ideology and how each new cycle imposed ever more harmful consequences on both laborers and natural ecologies. At the same time, however, miners and their communities pursued a contending vision—a moral ecology—that defended the healthy reproduction of life and land. This book's breathtakingly long view brings important perspective to environmental justice conflicts around extraction in Latin America today.

Unravelled Dreams

Author : Ben Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108304834
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Unravelled Dreams written by Ben Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest hopes and expectations that accompanied American colonialism – from its earliest incarnation – was that Atlantic settlers would be able to locate new sources of raw silk, with which to satiate the boundless desire for luxurious fabrics in European markets. However, in spite of the great upheavals and achievements of Atlantic plantation, this ambition would never be fulfilled. By taking the commercial failure of silk seriously and examining numerous experiments across New Spain, New France, British North America and the early United States, Ben Marsh reveals new insights into aspiration, labour, environment, and economy in these societies. Each devised its own dreams and plans of cultivation, framed by the particularities of cultures and landscapes. Writ large, these dreams would unravel one by one: the attempts to introduce silkworms across the Atlantic world ultimately constituted a step too far, marking out the limits of Europeans' seemingly unbounded power.

Spain's Empire in the New World

Author : Colin M. MacLachlan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520074101
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Spain's Empire in the New World written by Colin M. MacLachlan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Un Paso MáS Allá De Interpol

Author : Edward Chism
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462807054
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Un Paso MáS Allá De Interpol written by Edward Chism and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: