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Book From the Grounds Up

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  • Author : Casey Marina Lurtz
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 1503608476
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book From the Grounds Up written by Casey Marina Lurtz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from foreign markets. In southern Mexico's Soconusco district, the coffee trade would transform rural life. A regional history of the Soconusco as well as a study in commodity capitalism, From the Grounds Up places indigenous and mestizo villagers, migrant workers, and local politicians at the center of our understanding of the export boom. An isolated, impoverished backwater for most of the nineteenth century, by 1920, the Soconusco had transformed into a small but vibrant node in the web of global commerce. Alongside plantation owners and foreign investors, a dense but little-explored web of small-time producers, shopowners, and laborers played key roles in the rapid expansion of export production. Their deep engagement with rural development challenges the standard top-down narrative of market integration led by economic elites allied with a strong state. Here, Casey Marina Lurtz argues that the export boom owed its success to a diverse body of players whose choices had profound impacts on Latin America's export-driven economy during the first era of globalization.

Book Catalog of Printed Books  Supplement

Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books Supplement written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 1969 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967  Subjects

Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967 Subjects written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Author title Catalog

Download or read book Author title Catalog written by University of California, Berkeley. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El Paso

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  • Author : Wilbert H. Timmons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book El Paso written by Wilbert H. Timmons and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northern New Spain

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  • Author : Thomas Charles Barnes
  • Publisher : Century Collection
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780816535170
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Northern New Spain written by Thomas Charles Barnes and published by Century Collection. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research guide was first conceived to fulfill multiple needs of the research team of the Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) project at the Arizona State Museum. In performing research tasks, it became evident that reference material was scattered throughout scores of books and monographs. A single complete source book was simply not available. Hence, the editors of the DRSW project compiled this guide. The territory under study comprises all of northern Mexico in colonial times.

Book Modernity and the Classical Tradition

Download or read book Modernity and the Classical Tradition written by Alan Colquhoun and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architecture. Alan Colquhoun is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. His previous collection of essays received the 1985 Architectural Critics Award.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space Reader

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  • Author : Michael Hensel
  • Publisher : Wiley
  • Release : 2009-05-18
  • ISBN : 9780470519431
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Space Reader written by Michael Hensel and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a definition of space that is heterogeneous (an object or system consisting of a diverse range of different items). An example of heterogeneous space, for instance, is Manhattan where complex and multiple social and technological conditions are overlaid. (This is to be contrasted with highly centralised and ordered Modernist cities.) With the onset of globalisation and the Web, heterogeneneous space, with its emphasis on differentiation, is more relevant to the contemporary condition, which encourages the mixing of space, than a much more static conception of Modernist space. This book foregrounds spatial issues and the potential of heterogeneous space through a threefold strategy: 1) Its compilation of seminal essays on the discourse of heterogeneous space. These are to include previously published key texts by Reyner Banham, Andrew Benjamin, Robin Evans, Jeff Kipnis and Henri Lefebvre, as well as new texts by important contemporary commentators, such as Mark Cousins, Werner Durth and Anthony Vidler. 2) By commenting on these seminal texts and drawing links between them. 3) By distilling from the first two efforts a contemporary outlook on a discourse of heterogeneous space that is of future significance.

Book Joan Mir    1893 1993

Download or read book Joan Mir 1893 1993 written by Joan Miró and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive look at Miro's art available in book form. In honor of Miro's 100th birthday, 1993 has been designated Miro Year, which is being celebrated with great ...

Book Catalog of the Latin American Library of the Tulane University Library  New Orleans

Download or read book Catalog of the Latin American Library of the Tulane University Library New Orleans written by Tulane University. Latin American Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joan Mir

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  • Author : Joan Miró
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Joan Mir written by Joan Miró and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Joan Miró's notorious declaration of 1927--"I want to assassinate painting"--as its point of departure, this richly illustrated volume is the first to focus on Miró the "anti-painter," identifying the core practices and strategies the artist used to challenge painting between 1927 and 1937. Joan Miró Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937 surveys the various material, iconographical and rhetorical forms of Miró's attacks on painting by presenting, in chronological sequence, 12 distinct series of works, beginning with a remarkable group of paintings on unprimed canvas and concluding with Miró's return to Realism in "Still Life with Old Shoe" (1937). Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, stylistic heterogeneity and the use of resistant, ready-made materials are among the key tactics of aggression that are explored in this extraordinary presentation of the interrelated and oppositional series of paintings, collages, objects and drawings Miró produced during this crucial decade of his long career. This volume integrates close scrutiny of Miró's materials and processes with historical and iconographic analysis, leading to an expanded understanding of the underappreciated aggressiveness of an artist long regarded as Surrealism's most lyrical painter-poet. Joan Miró was born in 1893 in Barcelona. After his first trip to Paris in 1920, and through 1931, Miró generally spent half of each year in the French capitol and half in his native Catalonia, returning to live in France after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. One of the twentieth century's greatest Modern artists, Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. He died in 1983 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Book Picasso

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  • Author : Josep Palau i Fabre
  • Publisher : Konemann
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Picasso written by Josep Palau i Fabre and published by Konemann. This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from 1917 to 1926 was one of Picasso's most productive periods. During this time his output was very diverse, with a range of simultaneous and concomitant phases. This text features many of his works from this era.

Book Jules Et Jim

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  • Author : Henri Pierre Roché
  • Publisher : Penguin Classics
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780141194639
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Jules Et Jim written by Henri Pierre Roché and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate - with a smile the two friends have determined to follow always, but capricious enough to jump in the Seine from spite - who steals their hearts most thoroughly. Henri-Pierre Roché was in his mid-seventies when he wrote this, his autobiographical debut novel. The inspiration for the legendary film, it captures perfectly with excitement and great humour the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life. With an Afterword by François Truffaut With a new Introduction by Agnes Catherine Poirier 'A perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life.' François Truffaut