Bogotá

Bogotá
Author: Alberto Escovar W.
Publisher: Ediciones Gamma S.A.
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9588177219

Detailed guide to the architecture and public parks that are part of the urban revitalization project of the downtown district of the city of Bogotá. Most of the buildings featured were built during the 20th century.

The Colonial Spanish-American City

The Colonial Spanish-American City
Author: Jay Kinsbruner
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0292779860

The colonial Spanish-American city, like its counterpart across the Atlantic, was an outgrowth of commercial enterprise. A center of entrepreneurial activity and wealth, it drew people seeking a better life, with more educational, occupational, commercial, bureaucratic, and marital possibilities than were available in the rural regions of the Spanish colonies. Indeed, the Spanish-American city represented hope and opportunity, although not for everyone. In this authoritative work, Jay Kinsbruner draws on many sources to offer the first history and interpretation in English of the colonial Spanish-American city. After an overview of pre-Columbian cities, he devotes chapters to many important aspects of the colonial city, including its governance and administrative structure, physical form, economy, and social and family life. Kinsbruner's overarching thesis is that the Spanish-American city evolved as a circumstance of trans-Atlantic capitalism. Underpinning this thesis is his view that there were no plebeians in the colonial city. He calls for a class interpretation, with an emphasis on the lower-middle class. His study also explores the active roles of women, many of them heads of households, in the colonial Spanish-American city.

On Art and Painting

On Art and Painting
Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783168617

The only volume on the work of Vicente Carducho in English Analysis of the Dialogues on Painting by international experts Contributors are art historians or hispanists, offering a multi-disciplinary approach

The Colonial Andes

The Colonial Andes
Author: Elena Phipps
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2004
Genre: Art, Spanish colonial
ISBN: 1588391310

"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.

Pedro Moya de Contreras

Pedro Moya de Contreras
Author: Stafford Poole
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0806186194

For a brief few years in the sixteenth century, Pedro Moya de Contreras was the most powerful man in the New World. A church official and loyal royalist, he came to Mexico in 1571 to establish the Inquisition and later became archbishop and viceroy for the region. This new edition of Stafford Poole's definitive portrait of Moya de Contreras, first published in 1971, now offers an expanded understanding of this enigmatic figure's influence on the development of New Spain. In tracing the career of a sixteenth-century church official and administrator who was more notable for what he did than for who he was, Poole offers a rich source of information about Spanish rule in colonial Mexico and the evolving relationship between the Spanish monarchy and the Catholic Church. For this second edition, Poole draws on newly available sources to fill in gaps regarding Moya de Contreras's shadowy early career and final years in Spain. He also explores in greater depth the churchman's influence as Grand Inquisitor in light of the plethora of new research and recent publications on the Spanish Inquisition. Poole shows that Moya de Contreras was as diligent at carrying out the tortures of the Inquisition as he was at exposing government and church corruption. His reforming zeal reached its culmination in his leadership of the Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585, which enacted a legal code for the Mexican Church that lasted more than three hundred years.

A Theatre for Cannibals

A Theatre for Cannibals
Author: Peter R. Beardsell
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780838634363

This work attempts to reach an understanding of Rodolfo Usigli's theater as a whole through the analysis of a dozen of his most representative pieces. The chapters are grouped according to type: political satire, political fantasy, social drama, psychological drama, historical themes, and the universal dimension. Illustrated.

Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes]

Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes]
Author: David F. Marley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1031
Release: 2005-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1576075745

With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.