Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Transnational Mayan Identities
ISBN: 9780826514226 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country's intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and a half decades of Francoist dictatorship, these exiles held that the Republic, not Francoism, represented the authentic culture of Spain. In this environment, as Sebastiaan Faber argues in Exile and Cultural Hegemony, the Spaniards' conception of their role as intellectuals changed markedly over time.
The first study of its kind to place the exiles' ideological evolution in a broad historical context, Exile and Cultural Hegemony... After Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country's intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and...
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Going Coed: Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000
ISBN: 9780826514486 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than a quarter-century ago, the last great wave of coeducation in the United States resulted in the admission of women to almost all of the remaining men's colleges and universities. In thirteen original essays, Going Coed investigates the reasons behind this important phenomenon, describes how institutions have dealt with the changes, and captures the experiences of women who attended these schools.
More than a quarter-century ago, the last great wave of coeducation in the United States resulted in the admission of women to almost all of the remai...
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605,76 zł |
Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in 19th Century Travel Accounts
ISBN: 9780842026345 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men.
The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence was accompanied by loosened travel re...
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Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle Over Texas
ISBN: 9780842028011 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Bruce Winders provides a concise, accessible overview of the Mexican War and argues that the Mexican War led directly to the Civil War by creating a political and societal crisis that drove a wedge between the North and the South. While on the surface the enemy was Mexico, in reality Americans were at odds with one another over the future of the nation, as the issue of annexation threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states.
Richard Bruce Winders provides a concise, accessible overview of the Mexican War and argues that the Mexican War led directly to the Civil War by crea...
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252,18 zł |
Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with History
ISBN: 9780853459255 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexico's Hope tells the dramatic story of the making of modern Mexico, treating all the major developments of the past century of Mexican history.
Unusually attentive to the contributions of women, Indians, workers, and peasants, Mexico's Hope is informed by the conviction that the country's most promising prospects today lie in the quest of its poorest people for social justice and democracy-from the recent Zapatista uprisings in Chiapas to ongoing electoral efforts on the left.
Mexico's Hope tells the dramatic story of the making of modern Mexico, treating all the major developments of the past century of Mexican history.
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102,56 zł |
Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with History
ISBN: 9780853459262 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexico's Hope tells the dramatic story of the making of modern Mexico, treating all the major developments of the past century of Mexican history.
Unusually attentive to the contributions of women, Indians, workers, and peasants, Mexico's Hope is informed by the conviction that the country's most promising prospects today lie in the quest of its poorest people for social justice and democracy-from the recent Zapatista uprisings in Chiapas to ongoing electoral efforts on the left.
Mexico's Hope tells the dramatic story of the making of modern Mexico, treating all the major developments of the past century of Mexican history.
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456,12 zł |
Wars Within War: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846-1848
ISBN: 9780875653020 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional characterizations of the 1846-1848 war between the United States and Mexico emphasize the conventional battles waged between two sovereign nations. However, two little-known guerrilla wars taking place at the same time proved critical to the outcome of the conflict. Using information from twenty-four archives, including the normally closed files of Mexico's National Defense Archives, Wars Within War breaks new ground by arguing that these other conflicts proved crucial to the course of events.In the first struggle, a force organized by the Mexican army launched a prolonged...
Traditional characterizations of the 1846-1848 war between the United States and Mexico emphasize the conventional battles waged between two sovereign...
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128,31 zł |
Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas
ISBN: 9780896802391 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist aims of equality, nonviolence, and reproductive rights. In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to pro... |
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Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers
ISBN: 9780896802476 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee. Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers provides a unique and vivid insight into how this coffee is grown, harvested, processed, and marketed to consumers in Mexico and in the north. Maria Elena Martinez-Torres explains how Mayan farmers have built upon their ethnic networks to make a crucial change in their approach to agriculture. Taking us inside Chiapas, Mexico's poorest...
Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are finding environm...
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112,09 zł |
The First Miss America During the Birth of the Golden State
ISBN: 9781412094429 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of an actual, real life little girl, America Kelsey, who accompanied her parents and siblings on a rugged wagon trip from their home in Missouri in the 1840's to settle in California as the first Anglo family before it became a state.
That is the true part. Much of anything from there on has been somewhat fabricated, due to lack of historical substance. Her father was truly the first white man to die and be buried in what is now the Charles M. Weber Event Center in Stockton, California. All this was truly happening while California was a Department of the Mexican... This is the story of an actual, real life little girl, America Kelsey, who accompanied her parents and siblings on a rugged wagon trip from their home...
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Macehualli Oracle: Indigenous Poetry Between the Physical and the Miracle
ISBN: 9781425979218 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is due in appreciation for All those that sought beyond the established facade. As, all those Elders that who by their example, provided the impetus for the present Motivational Meditation. Thanks, accorded to Harmony Books/Author House For being the medium were by these words will be retold. And that with certainty will resonate with those that are bold. This for the Children of Iraq lost in the sands, keep on. In Hope that the present work be a link as yet Indigenous Poetry is as always a personification of the Ancestors work continuing on. On Xocotl Huetzi Ome Cuauhtli Chicome...
This work is due in appreciation for All those that sought beyond the established facade. As, all those Elders that who by their example, provided the...
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80,29 zł |
Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North America Discovery 1500-1685
ISBN: 9781585440665 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost five hundred years ago an obscure Spanish sailor aboard the "Pinta"""spotted the outlines of an unknown land rising above the western horizon. From that moment Spain embarked upon an age of discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World virtually unchallenged until the coming of the French in 1685. Not until sixteen years after the discovery of the fringe islands of North America did an explorer find the crucial passage into the Gulf of Mexico, or Spanish Sea, which then served as a vital conduit to the discovery of North America and was the theater for the earliest and most...
Almost five hundred years ago an obscure Spanish sailor aboard the "Pinta"""spotted the outlines of an unknown land rising above the western horizon. ...
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Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers
ISBN: 9781591148432 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Silver Medal winner for -Military Non-Fiction- category
Military Writers Society of America 2008 Awards The Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio La Bahia Award, 2nd Place Texas lost many volunteers during its hard-won fight for independence from Mexico, but one harrowing episode stands out. Following a one-sided battle on the prairie near Coleto Creek, 250 mostly American prisoners were marched back to the presidio at Goliad where they were joined by more than 200 others. Subsequently, on orders from President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna,... Silver Medal winner for -Military Non-Fiction- category
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Taken from the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions
ISBN: 9789004148901 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This epistemological study, which is based on ancient chronicles and stories, hymns and ritual discourses, epics and poetics, as well as contemporary ethnographic studies of Mesoamerica, has as its salient issues: gender fluidity, eroticism linked to religion, permeable corporeality, embodied thought and the amblings of oral thought.
This epistemological study, which is based on ancient chronicles and stories, hymns and ritual discourses, epics and poetics, as well as contemporary ...
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466,42 zł |
Panama-Echoes from a Revolution
ISBN: 9781434331748 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Panama - Echoes From A Revolution is based on the real life experience of Thomas James Bleming. In 1979 he was part of a privately funded group of American citizens who invaded the Republic of Panama with the intention on overthrowing the military dictatorship of Brig. General Omar Torrijos. He joins a Panamanian guerrilla movement along with other American citizens and they commence to lay out a plan to overthrow Torrijos and while in the process they plan to assassinate his military intelligence chief Manuel Noriega.
Panama - Echoes From A Revolution is based on the real life experience of Thomas James Bleming. In 1979 he was part of a privately funded group of Ame...
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137,59 zł |
Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
ISBN: 9780814716489 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A historical and analytical exploration of the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward.
A historical and analytical exploration of the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States f...
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387,39 zł |
Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
ISBN: 9780814716496 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining... Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstandi... |
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La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
ISBN: 9780292771116 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gained land that became California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Because the new United States-Mexico border ran through territory that was still incompletely mapped, the treaty also called for government commissions from both nations to locate and mark the boundary on the ground. This book documents the accomplishments of both the U.S. and the Mexican Boundary Commissions that mapped the boundary between 1849... The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gain... |
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The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing
ISBN: 9780292747050 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp has written a new preface for this edition, in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions. The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the... |
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Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt
ISBN: 9780872864931 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mexico Unconquered "is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. "Mexico Unconquered "probes the overwhelming divisions in contemporary Mexico, home to the world s richest man, Carlos Slim, and to destitute millions. John Gibler weaves narrative journalism with lyrical descriptions, combining the journalist s trade of walking the streets and the philosopher s task of drawing out the tremendous implications of the seemingly mundane. John Gibler has reported for "In... "Mexico Unconquered "is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the l... |
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128,52 zł |