Ambivalent Conquests
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521527316 |
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Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521527316 |
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Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107511755 |
This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders.
Author | : Albert Boime |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0826266258 |
"Examines the work of postimpressionist painters - Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne, and Gauguin - and how they responded to cultural and spiritual crisis in the avant-garde world. Boime reconsiders familiar masterpieces and draws analogies with literary sources and social, personal, and political strategies to produce revelations that have eluded most art historians"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2002-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521012690 |
And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.
Author | : Brent E. Metz |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 082633881X |
Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as "Ladino" or non-Indian. The Ch'orti' do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch'orti', most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. During the colonial period, the Ch'orti' region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations. In the twentieth century Ch'orti's directly experienced U.S.-backed dictatorships, a 36-year civil war from start to finish, and Christian evangelization campaigns, all while their population has increased exponentially. These have had tremendous impacts on Ch'orti' identities and cultures. From 1991 to 1993, Brent Metz lived in three Ch'orti' Maya-speaking communities, learning the language, conducting household surveys, and interviewing informants. He found Ch'orti's to be ashamed of their indigeneity, and he was fortunate to be present and involved when many Ch'orti's joined the Maya Movement. He has continued to expand his ethnographic research of the Ch'orti' annually ever since and has witnessed how Ch'orti's are reformulating their history and identity.
Author | : K. Candlin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113703081X |
The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery.
Author | : Valerie L. Garver |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801460174 |
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.
Author | : M. Butler |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2015-12-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230608809 |
While Mexico's spiritual history after the 1910 Revolution is often essentialized as a church-state power struggle, this book reveals the complexity of interactions between revolution and religion. Looking at anticlericalism, indigenous cults and Catholic pilgrimage, these authors reveal that the Revolution was a period of genuine religious change, as well as social upheaval.
Author | : Maria Bucur |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Austria |
ISBN | : 9781557531612 |
This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.
Author | : John Beifuss |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1998-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811821353 |
Curious about the true nature of the moon, Armadillo Ray asks different animals for their opinion.