Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Porter C. Bliss ... Including His Very Rare Collection of Spanish Americana and Mexicana Gathered by Him While Holding United States Diplomatic Positions in Mexico, Paraguay, and Elsewhere in Central and South America
Author: Catalogue of an Unusual Collection of Books and Manuscripts of Historical and Philological Value, from the Convents of San Francisco, Mexico
Author: George A. Leavitt & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Blood Contingent
Author: Stephen B. NeufeldPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impose scientific hygiene and patriotic zeal, and to build an army to rival that of the European powers. The barracks community enacted these objectives in times of war or peace, but never perfectly, and never as expected. The fault lines within the process of creating the ideal army echoed the challenges of constructing an ideal society. This insightful history of life, love, and war in turn-of-the-century Mexico sheds useful light on the troubled state of the Mexican military more than a century later.
Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients
Author: Ikhlas A. KhanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118213068
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1079
Book Description
The third edition of the unparalleled reference on natural ingredients and their commercial use This new Third Edition of Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients: Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics arrives in the wake of the huge wave of interest in dietary supplements and herbal medicine resulting from both trends in health and the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). This fully updated and revised text includes the most recent research findings on a wide variety of ingredients, giving readers a single source for understanding and working with natural ingredients. The Encyclopedia continues the successful format for entries listed in earlier editions (consisting of source, description, chemical composition, pharmacology, uses, commercial preparations, regulatory status, and references). The text also features an easily accessible alphabetical presentation of the entries according to common names, with the index cross-referencing entries according to scientific names. This Third Edition also features: More than 50 percent more information than the Second Edition, reflecting the greatly increased research activity in recent years A new section on traditional Indian medicine, with information on nine commonly used herbs More than 6,500 references Two new appendices explaining and illustrating the botanical terminology frequently encountered in the text A revised and expanded index Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients: Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, Third Edition will continue to provide a comprehensive compilation of the existing literature and prominent findings on natural ingredients to readers with an interest in medicine, nutrition, and cosmetics.
Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art
Author: Antonio Castro LealPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494041571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
MYTHS OF MEXICO & PERU
Author: Lewis 1874-1955 SpencePublisher:
ISBN: 9781372730238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World
Author: Emory Dean KeokePublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Describes the lives and achievements of American Indians and discusses their contributions to the world.
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
Author: William M. DenevanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807133949
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889--1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer's essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians, and social scientists alike who continue to explore Sauer's work. In Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape, editors William M. Denevan and Kent Mathewson have compiled thirty-seven of Sauer's original works, including rare early writings, articles in now largely inaccessible publications, and transcriptions of key oral presentations that remain little known. A student of the relationships between land and life, people and places, Sauer helped establish landscape studies in cultural geography and paved the way for paradigmatic shifts in the scholarly assessment of Native American history. By strongly advocating a land ethic, "a responsible stewardship of the sustaining earth," for his own and for future generations, Carl Sauer supplied an esthetic rationale and a historical perspective to the environmental movement. The volume opens with two extended essays on Sauer's critics and his works. Essays by prominent geographers and other authorities on Sauer introduce each section of the book, adding a contemporary element to the presentation and interpretation of Sauer's life and scholarship in areas such as soil conservation, man in nature, and cultivated plants. A complete bibliography of his publications and an extensive compilation of commentaries on his life and work make this an indispensable reference. Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape sheds new light on Sauer's contributions to the history of geographic thought, sustainable land use, and the importance of biological and cultural diversity -- all of which remain key issues today.
War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830
Author: R. BesselPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230282695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and southern Africa, this volume explores the impact of revolutionary wars and how people's identities were shaped by their experiences.
The Tiger in the House
Author: Carl Van VechtenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description