Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas

Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas
Author: Mina Roces
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782846948

Explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is part of politics, this book shows how dress has been crucial to the constructions of nationhood and national identities in Asia and the Americas.

A Maya Grammar

A Maya Grammar
Author: Alfred Marston Tozzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1921
Genre: History
ISBN:

Early and indispensible study of Maya language, published for the Peabody Institute. A must-have for any student of the Maya.

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico
Author: Magali M. Carrera
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0822349914

How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.

The Pedigree of the Devil

The Pedigree of the Devil
Author: Frederic Thomas Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1883
Genre: Demonology
ISBN:

Traces the history and traditions of ideas related to demonology.

Tibetan Grammar

Tibetan Grammar
Author: Heinrich August Jäschke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1883
Genre: Tibetan language
ISBN: