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Book Smoldering Ashes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles F. Walker
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999-04-05
  • ISBN : 0822382164
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Smoldering Ashes written by Charles F. Walker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, Smoldering Ashes highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on modern Peru. Peru’s Indian majority and non-Indian elite were both opposed to Spanish rule, and both groups participated in uprisings during the late colonial period. But, at the same time, seething tensions between the two groups were evident, and non-Indians feared a mass uprising. As Walker shows, this internal conflict shaped the many struggles to come, including the Tupac Amaru uprising and other Indian-based rebellions, the long War of Independence, the caudillo civil wars, and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. Smoldering Ashes not only reinterprets these conflicts but also examines the debates that took place—in the courts, in the press, in taverns, and even during public festivities—over the place of Indians in the republic. In clear and elegant prose, Walker explores why the fate of the indigenous population, despite its participation in decades of anticolonial battles, was little improved by republican rule, as Indians were denied citizenship in the new nation—an unhappy legacy with which Peru still grapples. Informed by the notion of political culture and grounded in Walker’s archival research and knowledge of Peruvian and Latin American history, Smoldering Ashes will be essential reading for experts in Andean history, as well as scholars and students in the fields of nationalism, peasant and Native American studies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and state formation.

Book Apocalyptic Faith and Political Violence

Download or read book Apocalyptic Faith and Political Violence written by J. Rinehart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the functional relationship between millenarian-inspired terrorism and the process of political change. Through an exhaustive investigation of late Twentieth-century movements, Aum Shinrikyo, Sendero Luminoso and Hezbollah, it concludes that in each case, apocalyptic expectations performed a significant group mobilization, leadership and therapeutic function.

Book The Fabric of Resistance

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  • Author : Di Hu
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2022-02-22
  • ISBN : 0817321152
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Fabric of Resistance written by Di Hu and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Fabric of Resistance" documents the impact of Spanish colonial institutions of labor on identity and social cohesion in Peru. Through archaeological and historical lines of evidence, it examines the long-term social conditions that enabled the large-scale rebellions in the late Spanish colonial period in Peru (1780s-1820s). Hu argues that, despite the Spanish government's emphasis on divide-and-control, workers of diverse backgrounds actively resisted proscriptions against intercaste mixing. This cultural mixing underpinned the coordinated nature of late colonial rebellions. Archaeological perspectives are lacking on what were the largest and most cosmopolitan indigenous-led rebellions of the Americas, so this book fills an important gap and provides fresh perspectives and arguments on a perennially important subject"--

Book Politics and Psychology

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  • Author : Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1468459198
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Politics and Psychology written by Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is a different place today.* Much of this has to do with the increasing volume and clarity of the people's collective voice. The power and pressing desire in man for autonomy, self-determination, and change are emerging as a demand. As a consequence, Communist governments are giving way to democratic re structuring, Europe is being recrafted, and the Cold War is slowly thawing. Simultaneously, back home, our government is becoming increasingly bogged down by media-created political images and psychodramas lacking in substance and value-the degree of exposure somehow determined more by commercial appeal (inherent sensationalism) than merit. The newborn child (Le., the budding democracies) is looking eagerly to Uncle Sam as a role model: throughout the world, people are quoting our political scriptures, our proclamations, our Bill of Rights, and yet as models we seem sorely lacking. Given this climate, this book intends to address a number of contemporary themes: the role of the media-symbolization, idealization, and projection---on political choice; the roles of group fantasy; and the more rational force of II group governance" on political elections; the personalities of our presidents and leaders, their psychic vulnerabilities, their public versus private personas and how this division interacts with the complex unraveling of historical events (for example, Jimmy Carter's response to crises in Afghanistan and Iran, Michael Dukakis and the 1988 campaign, George Bush's emergence as president, John F. Kennedy and his private versus public personas, Anwar Sadat as myth and symbol).

Book Shadows of Empire

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  • Author : David T. Garrett
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-09-12
  • ISBN : 9780521846349
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Shadows of Empire written by David T. Garrett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the late colonial Andean elite and their privilege and authority.

Book A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia

Download or read book A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia written by Juan Alejandro Chindoy Chindoy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamëntšá, an indigenous culture located in the southwest of Colombia, this book is an investigation of how a native culture creates meaning. Time, beauty and spirit are key philosophical experiences within the Kamëntšá culture which should be interpreted both as constituting and as constituted symbols because of their historicity and actuality and their potential power of transformation. The book addresses these living symbols that take hold of the past but whose significance goes beyond their antiquity through the traditions of storytelling and dance, ritual, healing and ceremony as well as the fraught political histories of colonialism and the ownership of the land. The author, raised within Kamëntšá culture, weaves personal experience with philosophical insights and significance of the Kamentsa culture, presented through its own frameworks and narratives. The philosophical dimensions of Kamentsa culture are articulated and contextualized within a legacy of colonial domination by long-term Spanish and Catholic rule that enacts the necessary separation of Kamentsa ideas from their representations through Catholic hermeneutic approaches. However, the book also embraces intercultural philosophical engagement, as the methodological approach is formed partly through some modern and contemporary Western thinkers as well as indigenous writers and figures like Carlos Tamabioy and N. Scott Momaday.

Book The Alchemist of Brushstrokes and Brimstone

Download or read book The Alchemist of Brushstrokes and Brimstone written by Gigi Pandian and published by Gargoyle Girl Productions. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stolen masterpiece. A brilliant woman written out of history. And a recipe for a lost color worth killing for. In the spellbinding eighth installment of the Accidental Alchemist Mysteries, centuries-old alchemist Zoe Faust and living gargoyle Dorian Robert-Houdin face their most colorful case yet! Zoe’s hard-won peaceful life is shattered when a devious thief targets her most prized possession—a vibrant portrait that’s her last connection to her long-dead brother. It’s a painting that also holds the secrets of a forgotten artist who created recipes for the most breathtaking colors ever seen. When the canvas disappears and murder follows, Zoe must unravel a palette of deadly puzzles. With her quick-witted sidekick Dorian and their eclectic group of friends, Zoe races to catch a killer, evade a secret society, and recover her beloved painting. But the quest is bigger than solving a present-day crime. Can Zoe finally set the historical record straight for a gifted painter erased from the history of art? Bursting with vivid characters, fascinating history, and touches of whimsical magic and culinary alchemy, The Alchemist of Brushstrokes and Brimstone is a cozy fantasy mystery that will leave you breathlessly turning pages until the final stroke.

Book Holding Their Own III  Pedestals of Ash

Download or read book Holding Their Own III Pedestals of Ash written by Joe Nobody and published by Kemah Bay Marketing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book three in Joe Nobody's popular series continues the saga of Bishop and Terri, as their post-apocalyptic world attempts to recover. Caught up in a power struggle to lead the recovery, the young couple are drawn away from their West Texas retreat and must use all of their skills to survive. In the near future, the government of the United States has all but ceased to exist. The military controls some of the larger cities, but its loyalties are divided between the President of the United States and a new, growing organization called The Independents. The Holding Their Own series, by bestselling author Joe Nobody, follows the adventures of a young couple as they survive in a world where anarchy prevails and society struggles to establish rule of law.

Book The Swimmer Manuscript

Download or read book The Swimmer Manuscript written by James Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Fire

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  • Author : Pat Martin
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2022-03-15
  • ISBN : 1984826123
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Life of Fire written by Pat Martin and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most important book on cooking over live fire in decades. Life of Fire illuminates it all, from coal beds, to home-built pits (in minutes!) to simple, delicious, recipes and enough whole hog know-how to impress the weekend warriors without intimidating newcomers.”—Andrew Zimmern One of the few pitmasters still carrying the torch of West Tennessee whole-hog barbecue, Nashville’s Pat Martin has studied and taught this craft for years. Now he reveals all he knows about the art of barbecue and live fire cooking. Through beautiful photography and detailed instruction, the lessons start with how to prepare and feed a fire—what wood to use, how to build a pit or a grill, how to position it to account for the weather—then move into cooking through all the stages of that fire’s life. You’ll sear tomatoes for sandwiches and infuse creamed corn with the flavor of char from the temperamental, adolescent fire. Next, you’ll grill chicken with Alabama white sauce over the grown-up fire, and, of course, you’ll master pit-cooked whole hog, barbecue ribs, turkey, pork belly, and pork shoulder over the smoldering heat of mature coals. Finally, you’ll roast vegetables buried in white ash, and you’ll smoke bacon and country hams in the dying embers of the winter fire. For Pat Martin, grilling, barbecuing, and smoking is a whole lifetime’s worth of practice and pleasure—a life of fire that will transform the way you cook.

Book Radburn Bay

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  • Author : Ruth Donnelly
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2019-06-20
  • ISBN : 1645154262
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Radburn Bay written by Ruth Donnelly and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their great Aunt Rebecca Sarah passes away, Jonathan Radburn and his family inherit the great Radburn Hall on the shores of Radburn Bay. But upon inheriting the great Hall, it comes with an ancestor: Thomas Radburn. Thomas Radburn is very much undead and has been sleeping in the wine cellar since the early part of the twentieth century. As everyone else has received an inheritance; Jimmy Wolf has received an old key. With this old key, Jimmy unlocks Thomas's coffin unsuspectingly. Jimmy unleashes Thomas Radburn into an unsuspecting world. The history of Radburn Bay comes alive, regaling how Radburn Bay was settled.

Book The Art of War on Dental Health

Download or read book The Art of War on Dental Health written by Margaret McMillan and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mouth seems to be a simple organ when, in fact, it is the most vital organ in contact with the outside world. Quick to adapt to change and rapidly healed when injured, the mouth shows emotion, allows communication, aids in lovemaking, fights off bacterial and viral invasions, and feeds usgiving us the energy needed to survive. It provides the passageway for food to nourish us and air to sustain us. Keeping the mouth healthy is a daily battle that can be won for a lifetime of good overall health, once you learn proper techniques to do so. In easy-to-understand detail, this book explains how these battles of the mouth can overcome the worst odds.

Book Peck v  Adomatitis  256 MICH 207  1931

Download or read book Peck v Adomatitis 256 MICH 207 1931 written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 102

Book Webster s Elementary school Dictionary

Download or read book Webster s Elementary school Dictionary written by Noah Webster and published by New York : American Book Company. This book was released on 1914 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great Questions God Asks

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  • Author : Kathy Call
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1532631081
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Great Questions God Asks written by Kathy Call and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is full of questions asked by God of his people. Each of these questions challenge us to struggle with some nagging issue or problem inside us that simply refuses to go away. God’s great questions probe the deepest issues of our lives—questions of identity, of adequacy, of balance, of assurance, of mercy, of renewal, of perspective, of ultimate hope, of perception. As the characters in the Bible of whom these questions were first asked wrestle with their answers, we as readers of this book find ourselves wrestling with the same questions in our lives—bringing us face-to-face with ourselves and with God himself.

Book Treasures in the House of the Righteous

Download or read book Treasures in the House of the Righteous written by Nel Penney and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all given a measure of faith. But are you using yours? What are you placing your faith or trust in? I want you to know how placing your trust in Jesus will absolutely change your world and give you a joyful, fulfilling life, more than you can ever imagine. In this inspiring work, Nel Penney reveals the miracles and promises that God has both preformed in her life and has in store for you. Whether you long to see God's mighty acts or simply to start over with a clean slate and a secure future, this is the book for you. You are not alone in this world. God is not distant or confined. He is alive, faithful, powerful, and loves you. He longs to give you an abundant life, filled with spiritual riches. These things are your inheritance as a child of God. Are you ready to undertake the journey to receive them? In Treasures in the House of the Righteous, Nel Penney will fill you with hope and give you a new direction as you set off to receive all the treasures that God is waiting to give you.

Book Court of Appeals

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  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1158 pages

Download or read book Court of Appeals written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: