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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2019)
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The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2019)
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In post-1968 Mexico a group of artists and feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media. Participation of women was increasing in the public sphere, and the exclusive ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2016)
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Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food.
At the First Table demonstrates ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2016)
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In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2016)
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In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2016)
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On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2015)
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Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2015)
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Though one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dalí is typically seen as peripheral to the dominant practices of modernist painting. Roger Rothman's Tiny Surrealism argues that this marginal position is ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2011)
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After the U.S.-Mexican War, gold was discovered in northern California, a Mexican territory that had been ceded to the United States. Thousands of Mexican and American citizens traveled to the gold region and soon clashed. ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2010)
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After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would endure throughout the crucial nineteenth century. A weakened Mexico faced ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2008)
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The collapse of the Portuguese empire in the Americas in the early-nineteenth century did not immediately or easily translate into the formation of the independent nation state of Brazil. While "Brazil" had geographic meaning, it ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2008)
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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, originally published in 1908 by
the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures
as Old Man, Scar- Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers.
Included are tales with ritualistic origins ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2007)
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Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) is one of the most famous, and infamous, figures in Mexican history. Six times the country's president, he is consistently depicted as a traitor, a turncoat, and a tyrant-the ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2007)
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After Nicaragua achieved independence from Spain in 1821, it suffered a series of conflicts culminating in the two-year National War. When that war ended in 1857, Nicaragua was in ruins. The Everyday Nation-State explores what ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2007)
pvp.35,00 €
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House of Good Hope is just a beautiful book, filled with the poignant bittersweet of hope and loss. Michael Downs writes about friendship. He writes about the promises we try to keep. He writes about ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS (2006)
pvp.32,82 €
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Stories about postcolonial bandits in Mexico have circulated since the moment Mexico won its independence. Narratives have appeared or been discussed in a wide variety of forms: novels, memoirs, travel accounts, newspaper articles, the graphic ...
