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Book Understories  Plants and Culture in the American Tropics

Download or read book Understories Plants and Culture in the American Tropics written by Lesley Wylie and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.

Book Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference

Download or read book Papers of the Second Palo Alto Conference written by Harriett Denise Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exquisite Slaves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tamara J. Walker
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-07-03
  • ISBN : 1107084032
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Exquisite Slaves written by Tamara J. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.

Book Slavery in the Americas

Download or read book Slavery in the Americas written by Wolfgang Binder and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 1993 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forms of Informal Empire

Download or read book The Forms of Informal Empire written by Jessie Reeder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization. Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings—Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the sway of British financial power, subjecting them to an informal empire that lasted into the twentieth century. In The Forms of Informal Empire, Jessie Reeder reveals that this economic imperial control was founded on an audacious conceptual paradox: that Latin America should simultaneously be both free and unfree. As a result, two of the most important narrative tropes of empire—progress and family—grew strained under the contradictory logic of an informal empire. By reading a variety of texts in English and Spanish—including Simón Bolívar's letters and essays, poetry by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and novels by Anthony Trollope and Vicente Fidel López—Reeder challenges the conventional wisdom that informal empire was simply an extension of Britain's vast formal empire. In her compelling formalist account of the structures of imperial thought, informal empire emerges as a divergent, intractable concept throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. The Forms of Informal Empire goes where previous studies of informal empire and the British nineteenth century have not, offering nuanced and often surprising close readings of British and Latin American texts in their original languages. Reeder's comparative approach provides a new vision of imperial power and makes a forceful case for expanding the archive of British literary studies.

Book Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Latin American Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.

Book Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Download or read book Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.

Book Adventurers and Proletarians

Download or read book Adventurers and Proletarians written by Magnus Mörner and published by Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Paris : Unesco. This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Half a Century in Retrospect

Download or read book Half a Century in Retrospect written by Jaime Behar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research paper series

Download or read book Research paper series written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Magnus M  rner

Download or read book Bibliography of Magnus M rner written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juan Manuel Pérez
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Latin America written by Juan Manuel Pérez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a general bibliography on Latin America, covering a wide variety of subjects, from pre-Columbian civilizations, to Columbus, to Castro, to the foreign debt, to pollution, ect. This work will not only be of use to the general, casual reader on Latin America, but also to the more specialized researcher. The book contains over 800 topics, with over 8,000 titles identified.

Book Newsletter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Conference on Latin American History
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Newsletter written by Conference on Latin American History and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Third World in Nordic Research

Download or read book The History of the Third World in Nordic Research written by Magnus Mo rner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om igangværende nordisk forskning i Afrika, Asien og Latinamerikas historie

Book Paideuma

Download or read book Paideuma written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde.