Author: Magnus MörnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
European Travelogues as Sources to Latin American History from the Late Eighteenth Century Until 1870
Author: Magnus MörnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
European Travelogues as Sources to Latin American History from the Late Eighteenth Century Until 1870
Author: Magnus MörnerPapers of the Second Palo Alto Conference
Author: Harriett Denise JosephPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics
Author: Lesley WyliePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1835535224
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.
Exquisite Slaves
Author: Tamara J. WalkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084032
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.
Slavery in the Americas
Author: Wolfgang BinderPublisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 9783884797136
Category : Slave rebellions
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Forms of Informal Empire
Author: Jessie ReederPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421438089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization. Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings—Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the sway of British financial power, subjecting them to an informal empire that lasted into the twentieth century. In The Forms of Informal Empire, Jessie Reeder reveals that this economic imperial control was founded on an audacious conceptual paradox: that Latin America should simultaneously be both free and unfree. As a result, two of the most important narrative tropes of empire—progress and family—grew strained under the contradictory logic of an informal empire. By reading a variety of texts in English and Spanish—including Simón Bolívar's letters and essays, poetry by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and novels by Anthony Trollope and Vicente Fidel López—Reeder challenges the conventional wisdom that informal empire was simply an extension of Britain's vast formal empire. In her compelling formalist account of the structures of imperial thought, informal empire emerges as a divergent, intractable concept throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. The Forms of Informal Empire goes where previous studies of informal empire and the British nineteenth century have not, offering nuanced and often surprising close readings of British and Latin American texts in their original languages. Reeder's comparative approach provides a new vision of imperial power and makes a forceful case for expanding the archive of British literary studies.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
Author: Stuart B. SchwartzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521313995
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.