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 2009-03-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 – Harvey L. Johnson Award – Southwest Council of Latin American Studies 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.
Download or read book The Wise Men written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-06-04 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Download or read book The Star of the Wise Men written by Richard Chenevix Trench and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The star of the wise men a commentary on the 2nd chapter of St Matthew written by Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Wise Men Got to Chelm written by Ruth von Bernuth and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The collected tales of these fools, or “wise men,” of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life—as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected. By placing literary Chelm and its “foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day.
Download or read book Tales of Alexander East wonders Wise Men written by bj berg and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Wild Man to Wise Man written by Richard Rohr and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Richard Rohr’s work has been life-changing in my own experience. Over the last twenty years, no other teacher has had a more formative impact on my mind and heart than this unpretentious Franciscan brother. Being set free from the need to perform—to get it right—has been a particularly important gift for me.”—Belden C. Lane, from the foreword A newly revised edition of Richard Rohr's perennial bestseller, this book reflects and incorporates his years of experience with men's work as well as changes in society. With Richard Rohr as mentor and guide, men—and women who care about men—will want to study and discuss the ideas presented here. A new foreword from Belden C. Lane emphasizes the need for this work to continue.
Download or read book Love and the Wise Men written by Percy White and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebellion Now and Forever written by Terry Rugeley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions of the Mexican southeast. Rebellion Now and Forever looks at Yucatán's famous Caste War from the perspective of the vast majority of Hispanics and Maya peasants who did not join in the great ethnic rebellion of 1847. It shows how the history of nonrebel territory was as dramatic and as violent as the front lines of the Caste War, and of greater significance for the larger evolution of Mexican society. The work explores political violence not merely as a method and process, but also as a molder of subsequent institutions and practices.
Download or read book Three Wise Men of the East and Other Lectures written by Arthur James Todd and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Other Wise Man written by and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1955 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wise Men and a Fool written by Coulson Kernahan and published by London : Ward, Lock. This book was released on 1901 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wise Man of Stainmore with Other Tales Legends of Olden Time Forming the Third Volume of Tales and Legends of Wertmoreland written by John Close (of Kirkby-Stephen.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of Wonders written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Radical written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star of Wonder written by Cynthia A. Hinkle and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biblical story of the Wise Men presented in a simplified story for children.
