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U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
ISBN: 9780816534067 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility--yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States. While much has been written about U.S. and Central American military, economic, and political relations, this is the first book to articulate the rich and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical memories of Central... In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility--yet migration from ... |
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122,40 |
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Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán
ISBN: 9780806155784 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andres Canche became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatan, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community s interests as early national Yucatan underwent major political and social shifts. In Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatan, Rajeshwari Dutt uses Canche s story as a compelling microhistory to open a new perspective on the role of the cacique in post-independence Yucatan. In most of the literature on Yucatan, caciques are seen as remnants of Spanish colonial... Andres Canche became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatan, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become a... |
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122,40 |
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Lieux de culte et parcours cérémoniels dans les fêtes des vingtaines à Mexico - Tenochtitlan
ISBN: 9781407313030 / Francuski / Miękka / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the places of worship used during the eighteen feasts of the Nahua solar calendar, called -veintenas-, and the ceremonial paths of the participants in the ceremonies in the Aztec capital of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The work is based on the study of written sources of the sixteenth century, the pictographic manuscripts of pre-Hispanic times and their copies of the first colonial era, as well as archaeological data. In this way a comprehensive overview of the buildings and open spaces used during the monthly rites is presented. Each chapter is devoted to the study of a month and...
This book analyzes the places of worship used during the eighteen feasts of the Nahua solar calendar, called -veintenas-, and the ceremonial paths of ...
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534,88 |
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Sociabilidad Y Alimentación: Estudio de Casos En La Transición Al Siglo XIX En El Virreinato del Río de la Plata
ISBN: 9781407313061 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book attempts to historize the construction of the dichotomy between -public- and -private- in Spanish colonial territories during the late 18th - early 19th centuries, when this opposition assumed some of the characteristics that today seem completely natural. It is usually acknowledged that these changes began at the level of everyday experiences that took place in a material world and while interacting with other people. Here we study these everyday experiences, particularly those structured around food habits within the domestic sphere in colonial non-elite domestic contexts. The...
This book attempts to historize the construction of the dichotomy between -public- and -private- in Spanish colonial territories during the late 18th ...
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309,33 |
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La Constitución de la Provincia de Caracas de 31 de Enero de 1812
ISBN: 9789801253594 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. enero de 1812, que fue la mAs importante de las Constituciones provinciales sancionadas en el marco del primer Estado independiente que se constituyO en la AmErica Hispana a comienzos del siglo XIX. La misma se sancionO en el marco de la ConstituciOn Federal de los Estados de Venezuela sancionada el 21 de diciembre de 1811por el Congreso General integrado por los representantes de la mayorIa de las provincias (Caracas, Barcelona, CumanA, Margarita, Barinas, Trujillo, MErida) que habIan formado la antigua CapitanIa General de Venezuela creada por la Corona espaNola en 1777. ...enero de 1812, que fue la mAs importante de las Constituciones provinciales sancionadas en el marco del primer Estado independiente que se... |
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115,61 |
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Cuba's Romantic Poet: The Story of Plácido
ISBN: 9780807890479 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates the mystery surrounding his life and execution, and reveals misattributions of his works in previous English translations.
This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates the mystery surrounding his...
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117,50 |
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Latin America: Development Programming and United States Investments
ISBN: 9781512804577 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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386,93 |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
ISBN: 9781455540013 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hern?n Cort?s, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred... The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning me...
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77,03 |
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The Manuscript Hunter, Volume 84: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859
ISBN: 9780806155029 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,52 |
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The Oxford Handbook of the Incas
ISBN: 9780190219352 / Angielski / Twarda / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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760,29 |
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Historical Dictionary of Guatemala
ISBN: 9781538111307 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Historical Dictionary of Guatemala contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
The Historical Dictionary of Guatemala contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cros...
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514,26 |
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Socio-Political Strategies among the Maya from the Classic Period to the Present
ISBN: 9781407312545 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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264,22 |
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Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá
ISBN: 9780813056746 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings the often-overlooked southern Maya region of Guatemala into the spotlight by closely examining the "lost city" of Chocola. Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umana prove that Chocola was a major Maya polity and reveal exactly why it was so influential.
Brings the often-overlooked southern Maya region of Guatemala into the spotlight by closely examining the "lost city" of Chocola. Jonathan Kaplan and ...
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509,37 |
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Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
ISBN: 9780826359421 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century - the white ""banana cowboy"" pushing the edges of a tropical frontier - was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company shows how the business depended on these complicated employees, especially on acclimatizing them to life as tropical Americans.
The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century - the white ""banana cowboy"" pushing the edges of a tropical frontier - was the product...
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264,47 |
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Cut the Crap & Move To Costa Rica: A How-to Guide Based On These Gringos' Experience
ISBN: 9780999350607 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,05 |
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Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain: Comparing Material Worlds, Metaphor and the Agency of Art in the Preclassic Maya and Mycenaean Early Civilisations
ISBN: 9781784916916 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a comparative study of the civilisations of the Late Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The approach used here seeks to combine traditional iconographic approaches with more recent models on metaphor and the social agency of things.
This book offers a comparative study of the civilisations of the Late Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The approach used here seeks to co...
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221,69 |
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The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic
ISBN: 9781496205490 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937, he and five of his teammates were lured to the Dominican Republic to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country's dictator, Rafael Trujillo. This book offers an extraordinary story of race, politics, and great baseball players, playing high-stakes baseball in support of one of the Caribbean's cruelest dictators.
Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937, he and five of his teammates were lured to the Dominican Republic to play a short basebal...
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107,70 |
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Faces of Resistance: Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity
ISBN: 9780817319878 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power. Faces of Resistance explores the importance of heroes through the analyses of heroic figures, some controversial and alternative, from the Maya area.
Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power. Faces of...
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225,30 |
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize
ISBN: 9780813596983 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples' relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages.
Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean C...
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164,98 |
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize
ISBN: 9780813596990 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples' relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages.
Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean C...
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612,21 |
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