Ambivalent Conquests
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521527316 |
Download Ambivalent Conquests Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Publisher Description
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Ambivalent Conquests PDF full book. Access full book title Ambivalent Conquests.
Author | : Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521527316 |
Publisher Description
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 | : Steve J. Stern |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780299141844 |
This second edition of Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest includes Stern's 1992 reflections on the ten years of historical interpretation that have passed since the book's original publication--setting his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective. "This book is a monument to both scholarship and comprehension, comparable in its treatment of the indigenous peoples after the conquest only to that of Charles Gibson for the Aztecs, and perhaps the best volume read by this reviewer in several years."--Frederick P. Bowser, American Historical Review "Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest is clearly indispensable reading for Andeanists and highly recommended to ethnohistorians generally. In technical respects it is a job done right, and conceptually it stands out as a handsome example of anthropology and history woven into one tight fabric of inquiry."--Frank Salomon, Ethnohistory
Author | : Kathryn Babayan |
Publisher | : Harvard CMES |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932885289 |
Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.
Author | : Ronald Wright |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802137289 |
The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
Author | : Jeffrey M. Pilcher |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780842027717 |
Why was Cantinflas, actor Mario Moreno's film persona, the most popular movie star in Mexican history? Was it because every Mexican - rich or poor, Creole or Indian, man or woman, young or old - could identify with him?
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 | : 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 | : Susan Migden Socolow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521196655 |
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Author | : Mona Ozouf |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674298842 |
Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.