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Book Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico

Download or read book Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico written by Juan Luis Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the city was established as a Spanish settlement surrounded by important Indigenous towns. This situation prompted a colonial city that developed along Spanish colonial guidelines but became influenced by the native communities that settled in it, creating one of the most architecturally rich cities in colonial Spanish America, from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. This book covers the city's historical background, investigating its civic and religious institutions as represented in selected architectural landmarks. Throughout the narrative, Burke weaves together sociological, anthropological, and historical analysis to discuss the city’s architectural and urban development. Written for academics, students, and researchers interested in architectural history, Latin American studies, and the Spanish American viceregal period, it will make an important contribution to the field.

Book Under Mt  Zempoalt  petl

Download or read book Under Mt Zempoalt petl written by Etsuko Kuroda and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Gaviota

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  • Author : Fernán Caballero
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1861
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book La Gaviota written by Fernán Caballero and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea gull

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  • Author : Cecilia Francisca Josefa (Böhl de Faber) Arrom de Ayala
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Sea gull written by Cecilia Francisca Josefa (Böhl de Faber) Arrom de Ayala and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Festive Drama

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  • Author : Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval. Colloque
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780859914963
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Festive Drama written by Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval. Colloque and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material.

Book Senri Ethnological Studies

Download or read book Senri Ethnological Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A  D  1861 1872

Download or read book A D 1861 1872 written by Charles Francis Horne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Paraguay Reader

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  • Author : Peter Lambert
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2012-12-21
  • ISBN : 0822395398
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book The Paraguay Reader written by Peter Lambert and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a dearth of serious scholarship or journalism about the country. Going a long way toward redressing this lack of information and analysis, The Paraguay Reader is a lively compilation of testimonies, journalism, scholarship, political tracts, literature, and illustrations, including maps, photographs, paintings, drawings, and advertisements. Taken together, the anthology's many selections convey the country's extraordinarily rich history and cultural heritage, as well as the realities of its struggles against underdevelopment, foreign intervention, poverty, inequality, and authoritarianism. Most of the Reader is arranged chronologically. Weighted toward the twentieth century and early twenty-first, it nevertheless gives due attention to major events in Paraguay's history, such as the Triple Alliance War (1864–70) and the Chaco War (1932–35). The Reader's final section, focused on national identity and culture, addresses matters including ethnicity, language, and gender. Most of the selections are by Paraguayans, and many of the pieces appear in English for the first time. Helpful introductions by the editors precede each of the book's sections and all of the selected texts.

Book The Mexican Mission

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  • Author : Ryan Dominic Crewe
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-27
  • ISBN : 1108492541
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Mexican Mission written by Ryan Dominic Crewe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a social history of the Mexican mission enterprise, emphasizing the centrality of indigenous politics, economics, and demographic catastrophe.

Book A Reference Grammar of Spanish

Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Spanish written by R. E. Batchelor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reference Grammar of Spanish is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of the Spanish language. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet clear point of reference on all the intricacies of Spanish grammar, covering word order, parts of speech, verb use, syntax, gender, number, alphabet, and pronunciation. Accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen examples, it looks at Spanish in Iberia, the USA, Mexico, and Argentina, and demonstrates the differences between these varieties. It is designed specifically with English-speaking learners in mind, and contains useful tools such as a glossary of terms, an index, and a detailed examination of different registers of the language. Clearly structured and systematically organised, this volume is set to become the standard guide to the grammar of contemporary Spanish, and will be an invaluable resource for teachers and students, as well as a practical supplement to textbooks and classroom study.

Book The Camino Portugues

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  • Author : Kat Davis
  • Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
  • Release : 2023-09-21
  • ISBN : 1787650464
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Camino Portugues written by Kat Davis and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to walking the Camino Portugues (Portuguese Way), 620km from Lisbon in Portugal to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The book gives stage-by-stage directions for the Central Camino, starting from Lisbon, Porto or Tui, the Coastal Camino between Porto and Redondela, and the Spiritual Variant route from Pontevedra to Padrón. It also describes link routes that can be used to swap from one route to another. Detailed route guidance and maps are accompanied by fascinating information about historic and religious sites passed along the way. It is packed with essential information for pilgrims, with advice on getting there, when to go, where to stay and equipment. An indispensable facilities table showing the availability of accommodation, refreshments, supermarkets, ATMs and pharmacies along the route, and a handy glossary, make this the complete guide to the Camino. Since 1211 Santiago de Compostela has been a place of holy pilgrimage and the Camino Portugués is the second most travelled pilgrim route. The largely rural journey takes in four UNESCO World Heritage Areas - the Knights Templar Castle at Tomar, Portugal's oldest University at Coimbra, and the old towns of Porto and Santiago - culminating at the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela.

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Overcome Oneself

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  • Author : J. Michelle Molina
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 0520955048
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book To Overcome Oneself written by J. Michelle Molina and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through the 1760s, the book treats Jesuit techniques of self-formation, namely spiritual exercises and confessional practices, and the relationships between spiritual directors and their subjects. Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic were folded into a dynamic that shaped new concepts of self and, in the process, fueled the global Catholic missionary movement. Molina historicizes Jesuit meditation and narrative self-reflection as modes of self-formation that would ultimately contribute to a new understanding of religion as something private and personal, thereby overturning long-held concepts of personhood, time, space, and social reality. To Overcome Oneself demonstrates that it was through embodied processes that humans have come to experience themselves as split into mind and body. Notwithstanding the self-congratulatory role assigned to "consciousness" in the Western intellectual tradition, early moderns did not think themselves into thinking selves. Rather, "the self" was forged from embodied efforts to transcend self. Yet despite a discourse that situates self as interior, the actual fuel for continued self-transformation required an object-cum-subject—someone else to transform. Two constant questions throughout the book are: Why does the effort to know and transcend self require so many others? And what can we learn about the inherent intersubjectivity of missionary colonialism?

Book History of California

Download or read book History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Christians and Moriscos

Download or read book Between Christians and Moriscos written by Benjamin Ehlers and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “excellent study” shows how a Spanish archbishop laid the groundwork for the seventeenth-century expulsion of the Moriscos (James B. Tueller, Renaissance Quarterly). In early modern Spain, the monarchy’s policy of converting all subjects to Christianity only created new forms of tension among ethnic religious groups. Those whose families had always been Christian defined themselves in opposition to forcibly baptized Muslims (moriscos) and Jews (conversos). Here historian Benjamin Ehlers studies the relations between Christians and moriscos in Valencia by analyzing the ideas and policies of archbishop Juan de Ribera. Appointed to the diocese of Valencia in 1568, Juan de Ribera encountered a congregation deeply divided between Christians and moriscos. He came to identify with his Christian flock, leading hagiographers to celebrate him as a Valencian saint. But Ribera had a very different relationship with the moriscos, eventually devising a covert campaign to have them banished. His portrayal of the moriscos as traitors and heretics ultimately justified the Expulsion of 1609–1614, which Ribera considered the triumphant culmination of the Reconquest. Ehler’s sophisticated yet accessible study of the pluralist diocese of Valencia is a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic reform, moriscos, Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain, and early modern Europe.

Book History of California  Early state administrations   Later state administrations

Download or read book History of California Early state administrations Later state administrations written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General history of California.

Book The New Englander

Download or read book The New Englander written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: