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Book Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California

Download or read book Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California written by Alice Irene Lyser and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library

Download or read book List of Latin American History and Description in the Columbus Memorial Library written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The general and departmental libraries

Download or read book The general and departmental libraries written by University of California, Berkeley. Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Cities of the Americas  2 volumes

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.

Book Books and Magazine Articles on Latin American Description and History Received in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Books and Magazine Articles on Latin American Description and History Received in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frontier Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simón Uribe
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-07-24
  • ISBN : 1119100186
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Frontier Road written by Simón Uribe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia—known locally as “the trampoline of death”—to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Considers the topic from multiple perspectives, including ethnography of the state, the dynamics of frontiers, and the nature of postcolonial power, space, and violence Draws attention to the political, environmental, and racial dynamics involved in the history and development of transport infrastructure in the Amazon region Examines the violence that has sustained the state through time and space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have made sense of and contested that violence in everyday life Incorporates a broad range of engaging sources, such as missionary and government archives, travel writing, and oral histories

Book Handbook of Middle American Indians  Volume 16

Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 16 written by Robert Wauchope and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Volume 16 of this distinguished series brings to a close one of the largest research and documentation projects ever undertaken on the Middle American Indians. Since the publication of Volume 1 in 1964, the Handbook of Middle American Indians has provided the most complete information on every aspect of indigenous culture, including natural environment, archaeology, linguistics, social anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnology, and ethnohistory. Culminating this massive project is Volume 16, divided into two parts. Part I, Sources Cited, by Margaret A. L. Harrison, is a listing in alphabetical order of all the bibliographical entries cited in Volumes 1-11. (Volumes 12-15, comprising the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, have not been included, because they stand apart in subject matter and contain or constitute independent bibliographical material.) Part II, Location of Artifacts Illustrated, by Marjorie S. Zengel, details the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook, as well as the size and the catalog, accession, and/or inventory number that the owner assigns to the object. The two parts of Volume 16 provide a convenient and useful reference to material found in the earlier volumes. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Hispanic Society of America. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1022 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colombia

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  • Author : Phanor James Eder
  • Publisher : London [etc.] T. F. Unwin [1913]
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Colombia written by Phanor James Eder and published by London [etc.] T. F. Unwin [1913]. This book was released on 1913 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native South Americans

Download or read book Native South Americans written by Patricia Lyon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-24 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge History of Latin America

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin America written by Leslie Bethell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.

Book Ninth Catalogue of Second hand Books

Download or read book Ninth Catalogue of Second hand Books written by Willson Wilberforce Blake and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Of Wonders and Wise Men

Download or read book Of Wonders and Wise Men written by Terry Rugeley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucatán. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people.

Book Handbook of Middle American Indians  Volumes 10 and 11

Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians Volumes 10 and 11 written by Robert Wauchope and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica comprises the tenth and eleventh volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). Volume editors of Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica are Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal. Gordon F. Ekholm (1909–1987) was curator of anthropology at The American Museum of Natural History, New York, and a former president of the Society for American Archaeology. Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992), former director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, was director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico and also a past president of the Society for American Archaeology. Volumes 10 and 11 describe the pre-Aztec and Aztec cultures of Mexico, from central Veracruz and the Gulf Coast, through the Valley of Mexico, to western Mexico and the northern frontiers of these ancient American civilizations. The thirty-two articles, lavishly illustrated and accompanied by bibliography and index, were prepared by authorities on prehistoric settlement patterns, architecture, sculpture, mural painting, ceramics and minor arts and crafts, ancient writing and calendars, social and political organization, religion, philosophy, and literature. There are also special articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of selected regions within northern Mesoamerica. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Book Finding Caspicara

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Verdi Webster
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2024-10-01
  • ISBN : 1477329749
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Finding Caspicara written by Susan Verdi Webster and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures. Who is Caspicara? Nothing is known of Caspicara’s life, and not a single sculpture has been documented as his work. Yet traditional histories laud him as a prolific Indigenous sculptor in eighteenth-century Quito who created exquisite polychrome figures and became a national artistic icon. Drawing on extensive archival, historical, and object research, Susan Verdi Webster peels away layers of historiographical fabrication to reveal what we do and do not know about Caspicara and his work. Rather than being a solitary master, Caspicara collaborated with other, largely Indigenous artists in Quito’s protoindustrial workshops, manufacturing sculptures now credited to him alone. The high quality of Quito sculptures produced by anonymous artists turned the city into a hub of wide-ranging commerce in religious icons. The art world and post-independence Ecuadorians have lionized the one named sculptor, Caspicara, according to the Western model of the artist-genius, amplifying the market for works bearing his name and creating a national hero on par with European masters. Lost in this process were the artists themselves. Webster returns to their world, detailing their methods and labor and, for the first time, documenting a sculpture made by Caspicara.