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Book Litteratura Coleopterologica  1758 1900

Download or read book Litteratura Coleopterologica 1758 1900 written by Yves Bousquet and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographic references to works pertaining to the taxonomy of Coleoptera published between 1758 and 1900 in the non-periodical literature are listed. Each reference includes the full name of the author, the year or range of years of the publication, the title in full, the publisher and place of publication, the pagination with the number of plates, and the size of the work. This information is followed by the date of publication found in the work itself, the dates found from external sources, and the libraries consulted for the work. Overall, more than 990 works published by 622 primary authors are listed. For each of these authors, a biographic notice (if information was available) is given along with the references consulted"--[p. 1].

Book Divination on stage

Download or read book Divination on stage written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Book Women  Culture  and Politics in Latin America

Download or read book Women Culture and Politics in Latin America written by Emilie L. Bergmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies on Latin American women’s history and literature . . . [and] represents a new, more theoretically rigorous stage in the feminist debate on Latin American women.”—Elizabeth Garrels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Book The Spanish Empire in America

Download or read book The Spanish Empire in America written by Clarence Henry Haring and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Middle American Indians  Volume 16

Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians Volume 16 written by Margaret A.L. Harrison and published by Austin : University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part one of this reference book contains a bibliography for over 7,000 titles of articles and books by more than 4,000 authors covering volumes 1-11 of The Handbook of Middle American Indians, an encyclopedia set that presents information about the environment, archeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. Part two of this book presents the abbreviations used for the names of the owners of the various artifacts cited in volumes 1-11. It also provides an index of the artifacts, and their owners that are found in the encyclopedia. Lastly, the second part of this reference also lists the locations of the artifacts illustrated, in the order of their appearance within the encyclopedia.

Book Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature

Download or read book Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature written by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories, concluding that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power.

Book Children  Spaces and Identity

Download or read book Children Spaces and Identity written by Margarita Sánchez Romero and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this disposition affects the creation and maintenance of social identities. Children are considered as the main actors in historic dynamics of social change, from prehistory to the present day. Notions on space, childhood and the construction of both the individual and the group identity of children are considered as a prelude to papers that focus on analyzing and identifying the spaces which contribute to the construction of children’s identity during their lives: the places they live, learn, socialize and play. A final section deals with these same aspects, but focuses on funerary contexts, in which children may lose their capacity to influence events, as it is adults who establish burial strategies and practices. In each case authors ask questions such as: how do adults construct spaces for children? How do children manage their own spaces? How do people (adults and children) build (invisible and/or physical) boundaries and spaces?

Book The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic

Download or read book The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic written by Andrea Canepari and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth Century Spain

Download or read book Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth Century Spain written by Marta V. Vicente and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.

Book The Madrid Codex

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Vail
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-03-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The Madrid Codex written by Gabrielle Vail and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Petén region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatán and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico. Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John F. Chuchiak IV, Christine L. Hernández, Bryan R. Just, Merideth Paxton, and John Pohl. Additional support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.

Book Red Against Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Delpar
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2010-03-03
  • ISBN : 0817356150
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Red Against Blue written by Helen Delpar and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the early political history of Colombia through an examination of the Liberal party from 1863 to 1899, its role in the Colombian poltical system, and its evolution during that time.

Book Jews of Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane S. Gerber
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1994-01-31
  • ISBN : 0029115744
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Jews of Spain written by Jane S. Gerber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-01-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their history and the beginning of another. Indeed, in defiance of all logic and expectation, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain became an occasion for renewed creativity. Nor have five hundred years of wandering extinguished the identity of the Sephardic Jews, or diminished the proud memory of the dazzling civilization, which they created on Spanish soil. This book is intended to serve as an introduction and scholarly guide to that history.

Book A History of the Jews in Christian Spain

Download or read book A History of the Jews in Christian Spain written by Yitzhak Baer and published by Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1961 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II: In the second volume of his classic exploration of the Spanish-Jewish community, Baer covers such major historical events as the Spanish Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. This work examines the effect of church policy on the Jewish population in the 15th century, and the points at which Jewish culture as a whole was altered by Spain's actions.

Book Native Languages of the Americas

Download or read book Native Languages of the Americas written by Thomas Sebeok and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publishing history of the eleven chapters that comprise the contents of this second volume of Native Languages of the Americas is rather different from that of the thirteen that appeared in Volume I of this twin set late last year. Original ver sions of five articles, respectively, by Barthel, Grimes, Longacre, Mayers, and Suarez, were first published in Part II of Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 4, subtitled lbero-A merican and Caribbean Linguistics (1968), having been com missioned by the undersigned in his capacity as editor of the fourteen volume series which was distributed in twenty-one tomes between 1963 and 1976. McClaran's article is reprinted from Part III of Vol. 10. Linguistics in North America (1973) and the two by Kaufman and Rensch were in Part I I of Vol. 11, Diachronic, A real. and Typological Linguistics (1973 ). There are three contributions by Landar: earlier versions of two appeared in Vol. 10 ("North American Indian Languages. " accompanied by William Sorsby's maps of tribal groups of North and Central America), and in Vol. 13, Historiography of Linguistics (1975); however, his checklist of South and Central American Indian languages was freshly compiled for this book. Generous financial support for preparing the materials included in this project came from several agencies of the United States government, to wit: the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, for Vols. 10 and 13, and the Office of Education, for Vols. 4 and 11; in addition.

Book The Moncada Attack

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonio Rafael De la Cova
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781570036729
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The Moncada Attack written by Antonio Rafael De la Cova and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of Fidel Castro's rise to power is not complete without mention of the failed atacks of July 26, 1953, on the Cuban army garrisons at Moncada and Bayamo. This text views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power.

Book Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period

Download or read book Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period written by Donald Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the Yale U. Press original (Yale Historical Publications. History of Art, v.12) of 1959 with a new (8 p.) foreword by Elizabeth H. Boone. The Yale edition is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Flora of the Cayman Islands

Download or read book Flora of the Cayman Islands written by George R. Proctor and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three islands comprising the Cayman Islands support 415 native taxa in a land area over 100 square miles, 29 of which are uniquely Caymanian. This field guide satisfies the needs of the professional botanist, while providing the non-expert and eco-tourist with an introduction to the unique endemic flora of the Cayman Islands.