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Author : Juan Cavallero Carranco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pearl Hunters in the Gulf of California, 1668 written by Juan Cavallero Carranco and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses reasons for the failure of the voyage.
Author : Fiona Lindsay Shen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146224
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Pearl written by Fiona Lindsay Shen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their creation in the maw of mollusks to lustrous objects of infatuation and conflict, a revealing look at pearls’ dark history. This book is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewelry. Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar. Uniquely organic in origin, they are as intimate as our bodies, created through the same process as we grow bones and teeth. They have long been described as an animal’s sacrifice, but until recently their retrieval often entailed the sacrifices of enslaved and indentured divers and laborers. While the shimmer of the pearl has enticed Roman noblewomen, Mughal princes, Hollywood royalty, mavericks, and renegades, encoded in its surface is a history of human endeavor, abuse, and aspiration—pain locked in the layers of a gleaming gem.
Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152583
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Californio Portraits written by Harry W. Crosby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.
Author : Harry W. Crosby
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826314956
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Antigua California written by Harry W. Crosby and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.
Author : Lane Simonian
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787561
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Defending the Land of the Jaguar written by Lane Simonian and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican conservationists have sometimes observed that it is difficult to find a country less interested in the conservation of its natural resources than is Mexico. Yet, despite a long history dedicated to the pursuit of development regardless of its environmental consequences, Mexico has an equally long, though much less developed and appreciated, tradition of environmental conservation. Lane Simonian here offers the first panoramic history of conservation in Mexico from pre-contact times to the current Mexican environmental movement. He explores the origins of conservation and environmental concerns in Mexico, the philosophies and endeavors of Mexican conservationists, and the enactment of important conservation laws and programs. This heretofore untold story, drawn from interviews with leading Mexican conservationists as well as archival research, will be important reading throughout the international community of activists, researchers, and concerned citizens interested in the intertwined issues of conservation and development.
Author : Thomas Bowen
Publisher : Arizona State Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Record of Native People on Gulf of California Islands written by Thomas Bowen and published by Arizona State Museum. This book was released on 2009 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last century historians and anthropologists interested in northwestern Mexico knew that Indians had inhabited four large islands in the Gulf of California. Since 1900 ethnohistorical and archaeological research has expanded knowledge of Indians on both sides of the Gulf. Much of that information pertains to the people living on the peninsula and mainland, and touches only incidentally on the islands. In this volume, Thomas Bowen presents historical and archaeological evidence for human use of 32 major Gulf islands. Native people may have played a significant role in shaping island ecosystems. Chronological data from the southern Gulf establishes a time depth for native people of ten millennia. New information from Seri oral history indicates Seri voyages far beyond Isla Tiburón, and Bowen shows the traditional assumption -- that most islands were beyond the range of native people – is wrong. Indians knew and exploited nearly every significant island in the Gulf. Bowen’s work touches on the question of initial human entry into the Americas. The Gulf may occupy a pivotal position in human dispersal in the Americas, and it is possible that evidence of this process has been preserved on some Gulf islands.
Author : Robert R. Alvarez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520073890
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Familia written by Robert R. Alvarez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them.
Author : Wilber A. Chaffee
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822304296
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956-1975 written by Wilber A. Chaffee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly A. Warsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638983
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book American Baroque written by Molly A. Warsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroque charts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the genesis of its maritime empire. In the 1500s, licit and illicit trade in the jewel gave rise to global networks, connecting the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean to the pearl-producing regions of the Chesapeake and northern Europe. Pearls—a unique source of wealth because of their renewable, fungible, and portable nature—defied easy categorization. Their value was highly subjective and determined more by the individuals, free and enslaved, who produced, carried, traded, wore, and painted them than by imperial decrees and tax-related assessments. The irregular baroque pearl, often transformed by the imagination of a skilled artisan into a fantastical jewel, embodied this subjective appeal. Warsh blends environmental, social, and cultural history to construct microhistories of peoples' wide-ranging engagement with this deceptively simple jewel. Pearls facilitated imperial fantasy and personal ambition, adorned the wardrobes of monarchs and financed their wars, and played a crucial part in the survival strategies of diverse people of humble means. These stories, taken together, uncover early modern conceptions of wealth, from the hardscrabble shores of Caribbean islands to the lavish rooms of Mediterranean palaces.
Author : Charles E. Ronan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Francisco Javier Clavigero, S.J. (1731-1787) written by Charles E. Ronan and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Dawson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249895
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Undercurrents of Power written by Kevin Dawson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Author : University of California, San Diego. University Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego written by University of California, San Diego. University Library and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / Lynda Corey Claassen -- Kenneth Evan Hill as a book collector / Jonathan A. Hill -- Preface to the original edition -- Publisher's note and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Catalogue of the collection -- References -- Chronological index -- General index.
Author : University of California, San Diego. University Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages written by University of California, San Diego. University Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limited edition of 1000 copies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book The New Scholar written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of graduate studies in the social sciences.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Journal of the West written by Lorrin L. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen C. Barrett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Baja California Bibliography, 1965-1966 written by Ellen C. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Branding Iron written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
