Author: Michael R. WeisserPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226891583
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Peasants of the Montes
Author: Michael R. WeisserPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226891583
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Peasants of the Montes
Author: Michael R. WeisserThe Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village
Author: Ruth BeharPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400862396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarÁa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the villagers, in turn, to weather demographic, political, and economic crises over the centuries. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
After the Black Death, Second Edition
Author: George HuppertPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253211804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --History "Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." --Renaissance Quarterly A work of genuine social history, After the Black Death leads the reader into the real villages and cities of European society. For this second edition, George Huppert has added a new chapter on the incessant warfare of the age and thoroughly updated the bibliographical essay.
Politics and Ethnicity on the R’o Yaqui
Author: Thomas R. McGuirePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816508938
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A study of Mexican Yaqui Indians competing for farming and fishing rights.
The Enlightenment on Trial
Author: Bianca PremoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190638753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This book grapples with the contradiction between this legacy and eighteenth-century Spanish Americans' active production of concepts fundamental to modern law. The Enlightenment on Trial offers readers new insight into how Spanish imperial subjects created legal documents, fresh interpretations of the intellectual transformations and legal reform policies of the period, and comparative analysis of the volume of civil suits from six regions in Mexico, Peru and Spain. Ordinary litigants in the colonies--far more often than peninsular Spaniards--sued superiors at an accelerating pace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Three types of cases increased even faster than a stunning general rise of civil suits in the colonies: those that slaves, native peasants and women initiated against masters, native leaders and husbands. As they entered court, these litigants advanced a new law-centered culture distinct from the casuistic, justice-oriented legal culture of the early modern period. And they did so at precisely the same time that a few bright minds of Europe enshrined new ideas in print. The conclusion considers why, if this is so, the Spanish empire has remained marginal to the story of the advent of the modern West.
Colombia
Author: Virginia Marie BouvierPublisher: US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN: 1601270380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia. This title explores how local and regional initiatives relate to national efforts and identifies possible synergies. It examines the multiple roles of civil society and the international community in the country's complex search for peace.
Elusive Justice
Author: Donny MeertensPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299325601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Fifty years of violence perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and official armed forces in Colombia displaced more than six million people. In 2011, as part of a larger transitional justice process, the Colombian government approved a law that would restore land rights for those who lost their homes during the conflicts. However, this restitution process lacked appropriate provisions for rural women beyond granting them a formal property title. Drawing on decades of research, Elusive Justice demonstrates how these women continue to face numerous adverse circumstances, including geographical isolation, encroaching capitalist enterprises, and a dearth of social and institutional support. Donny Meertens contends that women's advocacy organizations must have a prominent role in overseeing these transitional policies in order to create a more just society. By bringing together the underresearched topic of property repayment and the pursuit of gender justice in peacebuilding, these findings have broad significance elsewhere in the world.
Politics, Identity, and Mexico’s Indigenous Rights Movements
Author: Todd A. EisenstadtPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139498940
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identity. It concludes that - contrary to many analyses of Chiapas's 1994 indigenous rebellion - external influences can trump ideology in framing social movements. Rural Chiapas's prevalent communitarian attitudes resulted partly from external land tenure institutions, rather than from indigenous identities alone. The book further points to recent indigenous rights movements in neighboring Oaxaca, Mexico, as examples of bottom-up multicultural institutions that might be emulated in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.
The Cambridge History of Latin America
Author: Leslie BethellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521245173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
This volume examines Latin American history from c. 1870 to 1930.