Author: LERDO DE TEJADA, SEBASTIANPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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MEMORIAS INEDITAS.
Author: LERDO DE TEJADA, SEBASTIANPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
Author: Michelle MedeirosPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498579760
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields. This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engaged in natural history discussions in their writings. By demonstrating how these women were only able to participate in intellectual enterprises by embarking on transatlantic voyages, this book discloses how the work produced by these travelers challenged and reshaped dominant discourses, bringing a new point of view to nineteenth and twentieth-centuries studies in Latin American history, literature, cultural studies, and history of science. Moreover, this book analyzes to what extent the approaches employed by female travel writers who wanted to engage in the production of knowledge has evolved in that time period, and to what degree such changes could be considered positive and more productive.
A New History of Spanish Literature
Author: James Fitzmaurice-KellyPublisher:
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A History of California Literature
Author: Blake AllmendingerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This History explores the historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements of California.
Our Rightful Share
Author: Aline HelgPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961586X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism is deeply rooted in Cuban creole society. Helg argues that despite Cuba's abolition of slavery in 1886 and its winning of independence in 1902, Afro-Cubans remained marginalized in all aspects of society. After the wars for independence, in which they fought en masse, Afro-Cubans demanded change politically by forming the first national black party in the Western Hemisphere. This challenge met with strong opposition from the white Cuban elite, culminating in the massacre of thousands of Afro-Cubans in 1912. The event effectively ended Afro-Cubans' political organization along racial lines, and Helg stresses that although some cultural elements of African origin were integrated into official Cuban culture, true racial equality has remained elusive.
José Celestino Mutis and Newtonianism in New Granada, 1762–1808
Author: Sebastián Molina-BetancurPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031287681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining José Celestino Mutis’s lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s. Mostly famous for his botanical activities as director of the botanical expedition, Mutis lectured the first course of mathematics ever created in New Granada on his arrival in Bogota in 1762, in which he included several lectures on physics that encompassed multiple aspects of his interpretation of Newton’s experimental physics.
The Foundations of Civil War
Author: Francisco J. Romero SalvadoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134221940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and 1923. Romero enriches the important wider debate about this watershed period of European history when, in the face of unprecedented mass social protest and political mobilization, incumbent governing elites struggled to find a valid formula of social containment in the dawning of mass politics which also saw the spread of the radical new doctrines of Bolshevism and Fascism. Above all, this book examines Spain’s "crisis of modernization," a process marked by complex social and political realignments through which the nature of civil society was profoundly altered. It resulted in an unprecedented spiral of violence and a polarization that firstly led to an authoritarian formula of social control in 1923, and ultimately to the outbreak of civil war in 1936.
Mining in the Pacific States of North America
Author: John Shertzer HittellPublisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Church and State in Mexico, 1822-1857
Author: Wilfrid Hardy CallcottPublisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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