Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749525438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749525438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon
Author: Gary Van ValenPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816599785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life. Nearly two hundred years later they faced two new challenges: liberalism and the rubber boom. White authorities promoted liberalism as a way of modernizing the region and ordered the dismantling of much of the social structure of the missions. The rubber boom created a demand for labor, which took the Mojos away from their savanna towns and into the northern rain forests. Gary Van Valen postulates that as ex-mission Indians who lived on a frontier, the Mojos had an expanded capacity to adapt that helped them meet these challenges. Their frontier life provided them with the space and mind-set to move their agricultural plots and cattle herds, join independent indigenous groups, or move to Brazil. Their mission history gave them the experience they needed to participate in the rubber export economy and the politics of white society. Van Valen argues that the indigenous Mojos also learned how to manipulate liberal discourse to their advantage. He demonstrates that the Mojos were able to survive the rubber boom, claim the right of equality promised by the liberal state, and preserve important elements of the culture they inherited from the missions.
The Work of Recognition
Author: Jason McGrawPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617862
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Work of Recognition: Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
Landscapes of Freedom
Author: Claudia LealPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816536740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Looking at the interaction of race and terrain during a critical period in Latin American history--Provided by publisher.
Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Cross Channel and Short Sea Ferries
Author: Ambrose GreenwayPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1473845068
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This new book, beautifully illustrated with a magnificent collection of over 300 photographs, covers the development of a much-loved type of vessel, the 'classic' cross channel or short sea passenger ferry often described as a liner in miniature. From the mid–19th century paddle ferries slowly evolved into screw-driven steamers but it was the advent of the steam turbine and the construction of the railway steamers The Queen and Brighton in 1903 that caught the attention of the world. Similarly-propelled ships multiplied and their use soon spread to the Antipodes, Japan, the Mediterranean and North America. In 1912 Rudolf Diesel's new oil engine went to sea in a cargo ship but it was not until 1925 that it was first employed to widespread acclaim in the Danish North Sea packet Parkeston. In 1934 it made its debut on the English Channel with the Belgian Government's striking 25-knot motor ferry Prins Baudouin. The inexorable increase in car travel from the 1930s led to the development of a new breed of specialised car ferry accessed through bow and stern doors and the proliferation of these after WW2 led to the eventual demise of the 'classic' passenger ferry in the 1960s.With its informative introductory texts and abundant photographs and detailed captions, this book will appeal to ship enthusiasts around the world and to all those who mourn the passing of the golden age of the passenger ship.
The Case of the United States of America on Behalf of the Orinoco Steamship Company Against the United States of Venezuela ...
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venezuela
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Appendix to the Case of the United States of America on Behalf of the Orinoco Steamship Company Against the United States of Venezuela
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Damages
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Author: