Author: Publisher: Marcombo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Marcombo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Heroes of the Borderlands
Author: Christopher ConwayPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826361129
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Few genres were as popular and as enduring in twentieth-century Mexico as the Western. Christopher Conway’s lavishly illustrated Heroes of the Borderlands tells the surprising story of the Mexican Western for the first time, exploring how Mexican authors and artists reimagined US film and comic book Westerns to address Mexican politics and culture. Broad in scope, accessible in style, and multidisciplinary in approach, this study examines a variety of Western films and comics, defines their political messaging, and shows how popular Mexican music reinforced their themes. Conway shows how the Mexican Western responds to historical and cultural topics like the trauma of the Conquest, mestizaje, misogyny, the Cult of Santa Muerte, and anti-Americanism. Full of memorable movie stills, posters, lobby cards, comic book covers, and period advertising, Heroes of the Borderlands redefines our understanding of Mexican popular culture by uncovering a vibrant genre that has been hiding in plain sight.
Agustín Durán
Author: David Thatcher GiesPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300001
Category : Ballads, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Pascual de Gayangos
Author: Cristina Alvarez MillanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748635483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain's 'other' from 'within' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos's multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America.It is also argued that Gayangos's scholarly achievements and his influence have a political dimension. His work must be seen in relation to the quest for a national identity which marked the nineteenth century: what was the significance of Spain's Islamic past, and the Imperial Golden Age to the culture of modern Spain? The chapters, informed by post-colonial theory, reception theory and theories of national identity, uncover some of the complexities of the process that shaped Spain's national identity. In the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain's greatest bibliophiles.
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
The Hispanic American Historical Review
Author: James Alexander RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Includes "Bibliographical section".
The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery 1850 - 1888
Author: Robert ConradPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520312805
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Cartas. (Que te hablan a tí)
Author: Luis FernándezPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471740471
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : es
Pages : 144
Book Description
Luis Fernández, con la publicación de este libro, realiza una nueva aportación al ámbito de la psicología aplicada. Fiel a sus inicios, lo hace desde un estilo radicalmente personal, emergiendo desde lo más profundo de su personalidad. Sobre el autor destaca su sinceridad y su respecto del protagonismo. No se limita a crear una teoría aportando ideas o experiencias; va mucho más allá rompe moldes llegando a dar opiniones propias, responsabilizándose y asumiendo cuantas críticas realiza. Este libro, igual que el primero es absolutamente práctico, basado en su larga experiencia tanto profesional como personal. También es fundamentalmente crítico, aún más, acusatorio, sin complejos; no deja una piedra sin pisar. La inquietud y agresividad que le caracterizan le hacen saltar de un tema a otro de forma que el lector no llega a cansarse; todo ello en torno a la idea que envuelve su pensamiento: la mente humana.
The Reckoning
Author: Robin BlackburnPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804293415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best." —Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship A history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery—largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war and revolution turbo-charged racial oppression and the westwards expansion of the United States. Blackburn identifies the new territories, new victims and new battle cries of the Second Slavery. He emphasises the role of financial credit in the spread of plantation agriculture, traces the connections between slavery and the US Civil War, and asks why Brazil threw off Portuguese rule whereas Cuba became one of imperial Spain’s final outposts. The Second Slavery faced a fearful reckoning in the 1860s and after when the supposedly invincible Slave Power was defied by extraordinary cross-class, international and interracial alliances. Blackburn narrates the abolitionists’ difficult victory over the enslavers, while documenting the racial backlash which brought on Jim Crow and cheated the freedmen and freedwomen of the fruits of their struggle.
