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Rise Of The Modern Hospital - An Architectural History Of Health And Healing, 1970-1940

by Jeanne Kisacky

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 Examines hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. Jeanne Kisacky reveals the changing role of the hospital within the city, the competing claims of doctors and architects for expertise in hospital design, and the influence of new medical theories and practices on established traditions.
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Polish Americans And Their History - Community, Culture, And Politics

by John J. Bukowczyk

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 This rich collection brings together the work of eight leading scholars to examine the history of Polish-American workers, women, families, and politics.
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Bandit Narratives In Latin America - From Villa To Chavez

by Juan Pablo Dabove

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 Dabove shows how the bandit trope was used in fictional and non-fictional narratives by writers and political leaders, from the Mexican Revolution to the present. By examining cases from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, from Pancho Villa's autobiography to Hugo Chavez's appropriation of his "outlaw" grandfather, Dabove reveals how bandits function as a symbol to expose the dilemmas or aspirations of cultural and political practices, including literature as a social practice and as an ethical experience.
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The Matter Of Empire - Metaphysics And Mining In Colonial Peru

by Orlando Bentancor

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 This book examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1640. Bentancor ties the colonizers' attempts to justify the abuses wrought on the environment and the indigenous population to their larger ideology concerning mining, science, and the empire's rightful place in the global sphere. Bentancor grounds this metaphysical framework in a close reading of sixteenth-century debates on Spanish sovereignty in the Americas. To Bentancor, their presuppositions were a major turning point for colonial expansion and paved the way to global mercantilism.
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Comics And Memory In Latin America

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 This edited volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence.
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After Human Rights - Literature, Visual Arts, And Film In Latin America, 1990-2010

by Fernando Rosenberg

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 Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century.
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Black Lives And Sacred Humanity - Toward An African American Religious Naturalism

by Carol Wayne White

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 Features a concept of sacred humanity embedded in African-American religious thought historically and available for a more scientifically and morally grounded African-American religiosity in the present and future. Also traces indications of this concept in select writings of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin.
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Literature And Subjection - The Economy Of Writing And Marginality In Latin America

by Horacio Legras

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 Presenting theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, this title views the myriad factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature.
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Rethinking Community From Peru - The Political Philosophy Of Jose Maria Arguedas

by Irina Alexandra Feldman

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 "Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist Jose Maria Arguedas (1911-1969) was a highly conflicted figure. As a mestizo, both European and Quechua blood ran through his veins and into his cosmology and writing. Arguedas's Marxist influences and ethnographic work placed him in direct contact with the subalterns he would champion in his stories. His exposes of the conflicts between Indians and creoles, and workers and elites were severely criticized by his contemporaries, who sought homogeneity in the nation-building project of Peru. In Rethinking Community from Peru, Irina Alexandra Feldman examines the deep political connotations and current relevance of Arguedas's fiction to the Andean region. Looking principally to his most ambitious and controversial work, All the Bloods, Feldman analyzes Arguedas's conceptions of community, political subjectivity, sovereignty, juridical norm, popular actions, and revolutionary change. She deconstructs his particular use of language, a mix of Quechua and Spanish, as a vehicle to express the political dualities in the Andes. As Feldman shows, Arguedas's characters become ideological speakers and the narrator's voice is often absent, allowing for multiple viewpoints and a powerful realism. Feldman examines Arguedas's other novels to augment her theorizations, and grounds her analysis in a dialogue with political philosophers Walter Benjamin, Jean-Luc Nancy, Carl Schmitt, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Alvaro Garcia-Linera, among others. In the current political climate, Feldman views the promise of Arguedas's vision in light of Evo Morales's election and the Bolivian plurality project recognizing indigenous autonomy. She juxtaposes the Bolivian situation with that of Peru, where comparatively limited progress has been made towards constitutional recognition of the indigenous groups. As Feldman demonstrates, the prophetic relevance of Arguedas's constructs lie in their recognition of the sovereignty of all ethnic groups and their coexistence in the modern democratic nation-state, in a system of heterogeneity through autonomy--not homogeneity through suppression. Tragically for Arguedas, it was a philosophy he could not reconcile with the politics of his day, or from his position within Peruvian society"--
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Liberalism At Its Limits - Crime And Terror In The Latin American Cultural Text

by Ileana Rodriguez

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 Considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. This book examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism.
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Without History - Subaltern Studies, The Zapatista Insurgency, And The Specter Of History

by Jose Rabasa

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 On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred in a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. This work contrasts the accounts of the Acteal massacre and other events with state attempts to frame the past, control subaltern populations, and legitimatize its own authority.
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Sentencing Canudos - Subalternity In The Backlands Of Brazil

by Adriana Michele Campos Johnson

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 In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony's residents followed Antonio Conselheiro, who promoted a communal existence free from taxes and oppression. Estimates of the death toll range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand. Sentencing Canudos offers an original perspective on the hegemonic intellectual discourse surrounding this event. In her study, Johnson views the process of nation building and the silencing of "other" voices through the reinvisioning of history. Looking primarily to Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertoes, she maintains that the events and people of Canudos have been "sentenced" to history by this work.
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The Optic Of The State - Visuality And Power In Argentina And Brazil

by Jens Andermann

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 Traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. This work offers a critique of the visual aspects of national mythology. It also exposes how scientific and cultural institutions inscribed the state-form in time and space.
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The Andes Imagined - Indigenismo, Society, And Modernity

by Jorge Coronado

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 Examines and recasts the indigenismo movement of the early 1900s. This title analyzes a range of work in poetry, essays, letters, newspaper writing, and photography. It uses this evidence to show how the movement's artists and intellectuals mobilize the figure of the Indian to address larger questions about becoming modern.
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Intersecting Tango - Cultural Geographies Of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930

by Adriana J. Bergero

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 In the early part of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires erupted from its colonial past as a city in its own right, expressing a unique and vibrant cultural identity. This title explores the changes of 1900-1930, with an aim to capture this culture in motion through which Buenos Aires transformed itself into a modern, cosmopolitan city.
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Allan Saunders - The Man And His Legacy

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 Allan Saunders was the driving force behind the establishment of Hawaii's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women Voters. This biography looks at him through the eyes of those he most influenced, who were invited to contribute essays on selected topics.
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Nightmares Of The Lettered City - Banditry And Literature In Latin America, 1816-1929

by Juan Pablo Dabove

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 Presents a study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. This title examines writings over a broad time period, from the early 19th century to the 1920s.
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Helen C. Frick - Bittersweet Heiress

by Martha Frick Symington Sanger

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 Chronicles Helen Clay Frick's lifelong commitment to social welfare, the environment, and her purchase of many significant works of art for her private collection, the Frick Collection in New York, the University of Pittsburgh teaching collection, and the Frick Art Museum.
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Luke Swank - Modernist Photographer

by Howard Bossen

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 Reintroduces the work of Luke Swank - a modernist photographer, who had been relegated to virtual anonymity after his untimely death in 1944. Both a biography and an analysis of his work, this book focuses on his contribution to the modernist movement and the art of photography. His images share stylistic similarities with many of the modernists.
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Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology

by Nicholas Rescher

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 Nicholas Rescher's three books present an integrated and unified approach to the key issues of epistemology, Epistemic Logic; Cognitive Harmony ; and Realism and Pragmatic.
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Front-Page Pittsburgh - Two Hundred Years Of The Post-Gazette

by Clarke Thomas

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 The first issue of the Pittsburgh Gazette was published on Saturday, August 12, 1786. Nearly 220 years later, it lives on as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. By focusing on what stories were reported -and how - this book adds a to the history of Pittsburgh and its people.
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Mestizaje Upside-Down - Aesthetic Politics In Modern Bolivia

by Javier Sanjines C.

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 Mestizaje - process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixing of Spanish and indigenous peoples - has been central to the creation of modern national identity in Bolivia and much of Latin America. This study reveals how modernity in Bolivia has depended on a perception, forged during the colonial era, that local cultures need to be uplifted.
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Toward A Composition Made Whole

by Jody Shipka

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 This examines composition as an act of communication that can be expressed through any number of media and as a path to meaning-making. It offers an in-depth examination of multimodality via the processes, values, structures, and semiotic practices people employ every day to compose and communicate their thoughts.
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Pittsburgh - A New Portrait

by Franklin Toker

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 From its founding in 1758, Pittsburgh has experienced several epic transformations. Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities. This title shows us why.
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