Ambivalent Conquests
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521527316
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Ambivalent Conquests
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1107511755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.
Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
Author: Steve J. Stern
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780299141844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern's 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book's original publication--setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. "This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension, comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the conquest only to that of Charles Gibson for the Aztecs, and perhaps the best volume read by this reviewer in several years."--Frederick P. Bowser, American Historical Review "Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest is clearly indispensable reading for Andeanists and highly recommended to ethnohistorians generally. In technical respects it is a job done right, and conceptually it stands out as a handsome example of anthropology and history woven into one tight fabric of inquiry."--Frank Salomon, Ethnohistory
Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs
Author: Kathryn Babayan
Publisher: Harvard CMES
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780932885289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.
Time Among the Maya
Author: Ronald Wright
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780802137289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity
Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780842027717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why was Cantinflas, actor Mario Moreno's film persona, the most popular movie star in Mexican history? Was it because every Mexican - rich or poor, Creole or Indian, man or woman, young or old - could identify with him?
Reading the Holocaust
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-02
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521012690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.
Staging the Past
Author: Maria Bucur
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781557531612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Author: Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0521196655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815
Author: K. Candlin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 113703081X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery.
