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Labor and Love in Guatemala: The Eve of Independence
ISBN: 9780804757041 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations from three continents mingled; native people and Africans became increasingly hispanized; slavery and other forms of labor coercion receded. Komisaruk's analysis shows how these developments were rooted in gendered structures of work, migration, family, and reproduction. The engrossing narrative...
Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and th...
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304,78 |
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Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands
ISBN: 9780813054155 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Brings together for the first time all the major sites of this part of the Maya world and helps us understand how the ancient Maya planned and built their beautiful cities. It will become both a handbook and a source of ideas for other archaeologists for years to come."--George J. Bey III, coeditor of Pottery Economics in Mesoamerica "Skillfully integrates the social histories of urban development."--Vernon L. Scarborough, author of The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes "Any scholar interested in urban planning and the built environment will find...
"Brings together for the first time all the major sites of this part of the Maya world and helps us understand how the ancient Maya planned and built ...
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120,90 |
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Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780199967759 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. Similarly, lightning veneration played an important role to the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica and Andean South America. Lightning veneration and the religious cults and their associated rituals represent to varying degrees a worship of nature and the...
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and...
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476,08 |
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Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670-1810
ISBN: 9780806144009 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch s even-handed study of the "repartimiento" "de mercancias"the commercial dealings between regional magistrates and the people under their jurisdiction""reveals the inner workings of colonialism in Central America.
Indians were at the heart of the colonial economy. They made up the majority of the population, produced most of the goods, and performed most of the labor.... The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, f...
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149,97 |
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The Cold War's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America
ISBN: 9781438439488 / Angielski / Miękka / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Central America was the final place where U.S. and Soviet proxy forces faced off against one another in armed conflict. In The Cold War's Last Battlefield, Edward A. Lynch blends his own first-hand experiences as a member of the Reagan Central America policy team with interviews of policy makers and exhaustive study of primary source materials, including once-secret government documents, in order to recount these largely forgotten events and how they fit within Reagan's broader foreign policy goals. Lynch's compelling narrative reveals a president who was willing to risk both influence and...
Central America was the final place where U.S. and Soviet proxy forces faced off against one another in armed conflict. In The Cold War's Last Battlef...
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127,31 |
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Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community
ISBN: 9780813049632 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "What stands out in the Chan research is the variability and complexity of the strategies for living in this small community--clearly not the faceless homogeneous masses at the bottom of the socio-economic scale, but a diverse group of people in households who were successful for some 2,000 years in maintaining a balance in the face of a changing political landscape around them"--Heather McKillop, author of In Search of Maya Sea Traders "This book is more than theory-building, it is paradigm-changing. Cynthia Robin and her colleagues have discovered how the farming village of... "What stands out in the Chan research is the variability and complexity of the strategies for living in this small community--clearly not the facel... |
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135,41 |
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A People's History of Latin America
ISBN: 9781558765788 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that focuses on the leaders and the privileged. Hernan Horna brings us a history that centers on the experience of Native Americans, blacks, and the poor, and examines the ongoing projects of identity and unity in Latin America through the lens of ethnicity, culture, politics, and economics, from the ancient cultures of the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs to the 21st century.
The history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that focuses on the leaders and the privileged. Hernan Horna brings...
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106,22 |
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Secrecy and Insurgency: Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala
ISBN: 9780817313593 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.
Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory, Silvia Posocco s Secrecy and Insurgency presents a vivid ethnographic account of secrecy as both sociality and a set of knowledge practices. Informed by multi-sited anthropological fieldwork among displaced communities with experiences of militancy in the guerrilla organization... Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath...
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203,20 |
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The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
ISBN: 9780801478994 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the... The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the Unit... |
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101,80 |
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In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society
ISBN: 9780195396072 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating in vivid detail how people in the Andes have grappled with the effects of climate change and ensuing natural disasters for more than half a century. In Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range, global climate change has generated the world's most deadly glacial lake outburst floods and...
Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis becau...
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166,67 |
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Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report
ISBN: 9780230340244 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited, one-volume version presents the first ever English translation of the report of The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), a truth commission that exposed the details of 'la violenca, ' during which hundreds of massacres were committed in a scorched-earth campaign that displaced approximately one million people
This edited, one-volume version presents the first ever English translation of the report of The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (C...
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200,77 |
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Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order
ISBN: 9780333573051 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.
This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reason...
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224,02 |
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Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
ISBN: 9780521112277 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the Spanish Conquest and well into the eighteenth century, Mesoamerican peoples believed that time and space were contained in earthly and heavenly receptacles that were visualized metaphorically. This circumscribed space contained the abodes of the dead. There, deities and ancestral spirits could be revived and the living could communicate with them. In Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica, Amos Megged uncovers the missing links in Mesoamerican peoples quest for their collective past. Analyzing ancient repositories of knowledge, as well as social and religious practices,...
Before the Spanish Conquest and well into the eighteenth century, Mesoamerican peoples believed that time and space were contained in earthly and heav...
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487,55 |
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The Politics of Modern Central America
ISBN: 9780521515061 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.
This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.
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363,79 |
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The Politics of Modern Central America
ISBN: 9780521730792 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.
This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.
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158,31 |
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The Illusion of Ignorance: Constructing the American Encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
ISBN: 9780761853541 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the American cultural encounter with Porfirian Mexico in order to understand the U.S.encounter with the world. American ignorance of other nations is not merely a barrier to understanding, but a strategy Americans have chosen to maintain their illusion of U.S. international leadership.
This book examines the American cultural encounter with Porfirian Mexico in order to understand the U.S.encounter with the world. American ignorance o...
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203,20 |
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Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
ISBN: 9780803279407 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Few decisions in life should be more personal than the choice of a spouse or lover. Yet, throughout history, this intimate experience has been subjected to painstaking social and religious regulation in the form of legislation and restraining social mores." With that statement, Asuncion Lavrin begins her introduction to this collection of original essays, the first in English to explore sexuality and marriage in colonial Latin America. The nine contributors, including historians and anthropologists, examine various aspects of the male-female relationship and the mechanisms for controlling it...
"Few decisions in life should be more personal than the choice of a spouse or lover. Yet, throughout history, this intimate experience has been subjec...
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116,06 |
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Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
ISBN: 9780822349587 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala s neoliberal moment is now strikingly evident in the practices and politics of security. Postwar violence has not prompted public debates about the conditions that permit transnational gangs, drug cartels, and organized crime to thrive. Instead, the dominant reaction to crime has been the cultural promulgation of fear...
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America...
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120,90 |
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The Guatemala Reader : History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822351078 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that cannot be reduced to the contretemps of resistance and repression. It includes not only the opinions of politicians, activists, and scholars, but also poems,...
This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the sele...
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116,06 |
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Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death
ISBN: 9780822353157 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adios Nino describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional...
In Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs call...
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116,06 |
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