Author: Ralph Leon BealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Acta Americana
Author: Ralph Leon BealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Acta Americana
Author: Acta Americana
Author: Current List of Medical Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.
Handbook of South American Indians
Author: Julian Haynes StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Spanish Central America
Author: Murdo J. MacLeodPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first silver booms, and the period of modern raw material supply? How did Latin America move from one stage to the other? What were these intermediate economic stages, and what effect did they have on the peoples living in Latin America? These questions continue to resonate in Latin American studies today, making this updated edition of Murdo J. MacLeod's original work more relevant than ever. Colonial Central America was a large, populous, and always strategically significant stretch of land. With the Yucatán, it was home of the Maya, one of the great pre-Columbian cultures. MacLeod examines the long-term process it underwent of relative prosperity, depression, and then recovery, citing comparative sources on Europe to describe Central America's great economic, demographic, and social cycles. With an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction, this fascinating study should appeal to historians, anthropologists, and all who are interested in the colonial experience of Latin America.
A Prehistory of South America
Author: Jerry D. MoorePublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607323338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.
Handbook of South American Indians: The circum-Caribbean tribes
Author: Julian Haynes StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Art and Architecture of Ancient America
Author: George KublerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Offers a survey of the paintings and architecture of the Mexican, Mayan, and Andean peoples
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