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Book De gloria coronado   A San Francisco de As  s  en su octavo centenario

Download or read book De gloria coronado A San Francisco de As s en su octavo centenario written by César Herrero Herrero and published by Dykinson. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La presente obra es fruto de la confluencia de una dualidad de factores: uno objetivo y subjetivo el otro. El factor objetivo consiste en la “cercanía” de un gran acontecimiento: el cumplimiento del octavo centenario de la muerte de un personaje claramente excepcional, el encarnado por San Francisco de Asís. Quizá el hombre (santo) más universal. El factor subjetivo nace desde el profundo sentimiento-estima que, según el autor de este libro, se ha desarrollado siempre en él. Y, ¿cómo pretende expresarlo ahora? No se trata desde luego, añade él, en el amplio prólogo de este trabajo, de conformar otra biografía sobre Francisco de Asís. Tampoco, de urdir un conjunto de relatos o narraciones tangentes con la leyenda (en concepto moderno) o con el mito. Es su intención, confirma, ofrecerle: “... una agradecida exaltación, homenaje ferviente, bajo criterios propios de creación poética. Todos ellos proyectados sobre un conjunto de acciones, reacciones y acontecimientos, referidos al centro de la existencia del Santo”. Por tanto, su personal aportación destaca por tratarse de una visión de hechos y reacciones fundamentales de su vida acudiendo a recursos presuntamente poéticos. Sin olvidar, confirma él, que una estampa pretendidamente poética, exige sinceridad y verdad respecto a la realidad que se canta y se trata de sublimar. Todo esto lo trata el autor en dicho prólogo de manera copiosa y honda. Y parece que lo consigue con sus relatos y sus poemas.

Book Kumeyaay Ethnobotany

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Wilken-Robertson
  • Publisher : Sunbelt Publications
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781941384305
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Kumeyaay Ethnobotany written by Michael Wilken-Robertson and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, the Kumeyaay people of northern Baja California and southern California made their homes in the diverse landscapes of the region, interacting with native plants and continuously refining their botanical knowledge. Today, many Kumeyaay Indians in the far-flung ranches of Baja California carry on the traditional knowledge and skills for transforming native plants into food, medicine, arts, tools, regalia, construction materials, and ceremonial items. Kumeyaay Ethnobotany explores the remarkable interdependence between native peoples and native plants of the Californias through in-depth descriptions of 47 native plants and their uses, lively narratives, and hundreds of vivid photographs. It connects the archaeological and historical record with living cultures and native plant specialists who share their ever-relevant wisdom for future generations. Book jacket.

Book Documents of the Coronado Expedition  1539 1542

Download or read book Documents of the Coronado Expedition 1539 1542 written by Richard Flint and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.

Book Paper Cadavers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirsten Weld
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-21
  • ISBN : 082237658X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Paper Cadavers written by Kirsten Weld and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America. The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.

Book Converso Non Conformism in Early Modern Spain

Download or read book Converso Non Conformism in Early Modern Spain written by Kevin Ingram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.

Book They Forged the Signature of God

Download or read book They Forged the Signature of God written by Viriato Sención and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.

Book Shifting ethnic identities in spain and gaul  500 700

Download or read book Shifting ethnic identities in spain and gaul 500 700 written by Erica Buchberger and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous scholarship has examined the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and other 'barbarian' groups in the post-Roman West, but Romans have been relatively neglected. Part of the reason for this lacuna is the assumption that 'Roman' continued to denote solely cultural and legal affiliation. In fact, as this book demonstrates, contemporaries also associated Romanness with descent and described Romans just like they described Franks and Goths - whom scholars are perfectly happy to call 'ethnic groups'. By distinguishing between political, religious, and descent nuances with which authors used the terms 'Roman', 'Goth', and 'Frank', this comparative study tracks changes in the use and perception of these identifications, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt the Gothic or Frankish identities of their new rulers, one nuance at a time. AUP Catalogue S17 text Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.

Book Wines of South America

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  • Author : Evan Goldstein
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2014-08-29
  • ISBN : 0520273931
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Wines of South America written by Evan Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the variety and quality of wine available in ten South American countries, exploring the regions, styles, and prominent grapes of the continent's two leading producers, Argentina and Chile, as well other nations' evolving industries.

Book The U S  Mexico Transborder Region

Download or read book The U S Mexico Transborder Region written by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies"--Provided by publisher.

Book Complete Atlas of the World  3rd Edition

Download or read book Complete Atlas of the World 3rd Edition written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition is now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in world geography, including the annexation of Crimea and the new nation of South Sudan. Bringing each featured landscape to life with detailed terrain models and color schemes and offering maps of unsurpassed quality, this atlas features four sections: a world overview, the main atlas, fact files on all the countries of the world, and an easy-to-reference index of all 100,000 place names. All maps enjoy a full double-page spread, with continents broken down into 330 carefully selected maps, including 100 city plans. You will also find a stimulating series of global thematic maps that explore Earth's place in the universe, its physical forms and processes, the living world, and the human condition. From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent-by-continent with Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition.

Book Catalog of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Age and Political Behavior

Download or read book Old Age and Political Behavior written by Frank A. Pinner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Book Dictionary of Spoken Spanish

Download or read book Dictionary of Spoken Spanish written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America

Download or read book Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America written by Elisabeth Cunin and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the ideal of a homogenised citizenship produced by the mixing of races - mestizaje - there are complex social dynamics based on difference and indifference, stigmatization and fascination, homogenization and othering. The contributors to this volume believe that mestizaje is more than a 'myth' and multiculturalism a 'challenge' to it. The essays in this book investigate the different processes of racialisation, ethnicisation and negotiation of the belongings that characterize mestizaje as multiculturalism.

Book Vel  zquez s Fables

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diego Velázquez
  • Publisher : T.F. Editores, S.L.C.
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Vel zquez s Fables written by Diego Velázquez and published by T.F. Editores, S.L.C.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulous edition is a descriptive catalogue including illustrations of all the works appearing in the exhibition.

Book Borderland on the Isthmus

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  • Author : Michael E. Donoghue
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-23
  • ISBN : 0822376679
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Borderland on the Isthmus written by Michael E. Donoghue and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.

Book Road Atlas  United States  Canada  and Mexico

Download or read book Road Atlas United States Canada and Mexico written by Rand McNally and Company and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: