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Nahua Singers - Celebrating An Indigenous Empire In Sixteenth-Century Mexico

by Peter Bjorndahl (Hong Kong Baptist University) Sorensen

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 This book offers a new history of the Aztec Empire by foregrounding Indigenous voices as they recount their past through the lyrics of traditional songs. It is for students and scholars interested in Latin American history, pre-colonial Latin America, Indigenous studies, Aztec history, anthropology, literature, and musicology.
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Nahua Singers - Celebrating An Indigenous Empire In Sixteenth-Century Mexico

by Peter Bjorndahl (Hong Kong Baptist University) Sorensen

~~54,08€~~ 48,67€ 10% OFF

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 This book offers a new history of the Aztec Empire by foregrounding Indigenous voices as they recount their past through the lyrics of traditional songs. It is for students and scholars interested in Latin American history, pre-colonial Latin America, Indigenous studies, Aztec history, anthropology, literature, and musicology.
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Beyond The War - Argentines And Islanders In An Unknown Falklands

by Sebastian (University Of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Carassai

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 This book explores the decades before the 1982 Falklands War, revealing collaboration and exchange shadowed by tensions and suspicions. Drawing on Argentine travellers' impressions, islanders' challenges, unprecedented 1970s connections, and popular songs, it will interest students and scholars of Latin America, diplomacy, empire, and war.
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Beyond The War - Argentines And Islanders In An Unknown Falklands

by Sebastian (University Of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Carassai

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 This book explores the decades before the 1982 Falklands War, revealing collaboration and exchange shadowed by tensions and suspicions. Drawing on Argentine travellers' impressions, islanders' challenges, unprecedented 1970s connections, and popular songs, it will interest students and scholars of Latin America, diplomacy, empire, and war.
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The Rebirth Of The Spanish Empire - War And Sacred Kingship In Early Bourbon Mexico

by Frances L. (University Of South Florida) Ramos

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 Focusing on colonial Mexico, this book examines how ceremony, printed propaganda, and the visual arts helped to exalt Felipe V, the Bourbon successor to Spain's last Habsburg monarch, as a sacred king. It will appeal to students of the early modern Spanish Empire interested in power, ceremony, and oratory.
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The Rebirth Of The Spanish Empire - War And Sacred Kingship In Early Bourbon Mexico

by Frances L. (University Of South Florida) Ramos

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 Focusing on colonial Mexico, this book examines how ceremony, printed propaganda, and the visual arts helped to exalt Felipe V, the Bourbon successor to Spain's last Habsburg monarch, as a sacred king. It will appeal to students of the early modern Spanish Empire interested in power, ceremony, and oratory.
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Plebeian Consumers - Global Connections, Local Trade, And Foreign Goods In Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by Ana Maria (University Of York) Otero-Cleves

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 Plebeian Consumers details the key role played by Colombia's popular consumers in altering and challenging global patterns of exchange in the nineteenth century. The book will interest historians of Latin America, as well as scholars of capitalism and the history of consumption.
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The Coming Of The Kingdom - The Muisca, Catholic Reform, And Spanish Colonialism In The New Kingdom Of Granada

by Juan F. (University Of California, Santa Barbara) Cobo Betancourt

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 Explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada during Spanish colonization. It will be useful for those interested in Latin American studies, ethnohistory, legal history, early modern history, and the history of Christianity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Islands In The Lake - Environment And Ethnohistory In Xochimilco, New Spain

by Richard M. (Montclair State University, New Jersey) Conway

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 An essential text for those interested in the history of Native Americans and Mexico. It offers a novel approach to understanding cross-cultural encounters and colonialism in the early modern period, combining environmental history with Spanish and native-language sources to explain socioeconomic and cultural continuities.
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An Unholy Pedagogy - Visions Of Learning From Mesoamerica, 1300-1650

by Joshua Jacob (University Of Cambridge) Fitzgerald

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 This ethnohistory of Colonial Mexico explores local education systems and school art and architecture before and after the Spanish invasion in the sixteenth century. It investigates Nahua (Aztec) visual, material and textual sources to uncover new theory for students and scholars of history, art history, and archaeology.
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The Making Of Brazilian Amazonian Societies - A Study In Ethnographic And Spatial History

by Mark (Monash University, Victoria) Harris

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 This book seeks to understand the re-emergence of Indigenous identities in the contemporary Brazilian Amazon. It is reconstructed through the formation of Amazonian territories and spaces and the subterranean networks connecting them. It is for students and scholars of Latin American studies, anthropology, archaeology, and Indigenous studies.
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A Colonial Book Market - Peruvian Print Culture In The Age Of Enlightenment

by Agnes (Universitat Bern, Switzerland) Gehbald

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 Tracing the variety of printed commodities that were circulating in the urban sphere, Agnes Gehbald provides a comprehensive study of print culture in Peru in the decades before Independence. An important volume for those interested in the history of books beyond the European market.
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A Tale Of Two Granadas - Custom, Community, And Citizenship In The Spanish Empire, 1568â€“1668

by Max (University Of Florida) Deardorff

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 This book examines the struggle for citizenship in the New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), offering the first deep analysis of how a wave of Catholic reform resulted in opportunities for the Spanish empire's diverse subjects. An important contribution to Latin Americanists and scholars of empire.
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Being The Heart Of The World - The Pacific And The Fashioning Of The Self In New Spain, 1513â€“1641

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 Being the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity-making in the Spanish colonial world. It will be of value to historians of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire.
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We, The King - Creating Royal Legislation In The Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World

by Adrian (Universitat Trier, Germany) Masters

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 We, the King reveals how ordinary subjects aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire, demonstrating how its policies, racial categories, and society were created from the â€œbottom upâ€. An important study for scholars of Colonial Latin America, this work reassesses our understandings of kingship, empire, race, and colonialism.
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Veracruz And The Caribbean In The Seventeenth Century

by Joseph M. H. (University Of Kentucky) Clark

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 An innovative book that draws on environmental, economic, social, and cultural history to define a regional space between Mexico and the Caribbean through which African diasporans defined identities and built communities. Essential reading for scholars of Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic world history.
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A Silver River In A Silver World - Dutch Trade In The Rio De La Plata, 1648â€“1678

by David (University Of Missouri, Kansas City) Freeman

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 A study for scholars of colonial Latin American, Dutch, and economic history that explores the nature and extent of Dutch trade during an understudied period of Spanish America's history. It raises questions about foreign 'contraband' traders and 'corrupt' officials, underscoring that their activities frequently proceeded within the law.
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Debts Unpaid - Two Centuries Of Trouble And Conflict In Mexico'S Economy

by Louise E. (Northeastern University, Boston) Walker

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 Blending rich storytelling and deep analysis, this study explores how everyday people fought for economic justice in Mexico from the eve of independence to the early 2000s. Small-scale conflicts between Mexico's debtors and creditors were the stress test for economic order over two centuries of transformation.
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Armed Citizens And Citizens In Arms - The Military And The Creation Of The State Of Peru, 1800-1860

by Natalia (University Of Kent, Canterbury) Sobrevilla Perea

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 This book reconstructs the history of the armed forces in nineteenth century Peru. It is the first book to explore the armed forces as an institution of social provision and will interest students and scholars of Latin America, political science, and military history.
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Peopling For Profit In Imperial Brazil - Directed Migrations And The Business Of Nineteenth-Century Colonization

by Jose Juan (University Of California, Davis) Perez Melendez

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 This book introduces general and specialized readers to the migrants, entrepreneurs, and statesmen who turned colonization into a business in Brazil. Readers will learn that the deep entanglement between profit and politics stoked the migratory movements that made Brazil the populous country it is today.
Hispanic Technocracy - From Fascism To Catholic Authoritarianism In Spain, Argentina, And Chile, 1945â€“1991

by Daniel Gunnar (The Koch History Centre, University Of Oxford) Kressel

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 This book explores how the Cold War Latin American right sought to rescue the essence of Europe's fascist ideology after 1945 by reformulating it into novel authoritarian state models. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history, political science, economics, sociology, and anthropology.
The Power Of Dissent - Urban Political Culture And The Fall Of Spanish Rule In Charcas

by Sergio (Universidad De San Andres) Serulnikov

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 This book explores the crisis of Spanish rule through the advent of a culture of popular contestation and dissent in Chuquisaca, the most important city in the southern Andes, in the decades preceding the wars of independence. It will interest students and scholars of Latin American history and the age of Atlantic revolutions.
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Fallen From Heaven - The Enduring Tradition Of Europeans As Gods In The Americas

by Nicholas Griffiths

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 This book debunks the so-called apotheosis myth that Indigenous peoples across the Americas worshipped Europeans as gods during the early modern period. This accessible synthesis will interest students and scholars of European expansion and colonialism, Native American history, the history of myths, and shamanism.
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The Coming Of The Kingdom - The Muisca, Catholic Reform, And Spanish Colonialism In The New Kingdom Of Granada

by Juan F. (University Of California, Santa Barbara) Cobo Betancourt

~~141,95€~~ 127,76€ 10% OFF

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 Explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada during Spanish colonization. It will be useful for those interested in Latin American studies, ethnohistory, legal history, early modern history, and the history of Christianity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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