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CURZON PRESS (2002)
pvp.210,00 €
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The history of the Arabs in antiquity from their earliest appearance around 853 BC until the first century of Islam, is described in this book. It traces the mention of people called Arabs in all ...
ABRAMS (2002)
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On May 21, 1927, in Paris, Charles Lindbergh alighted from his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, and entered history as the first person to complete a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. Now, in ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.47,78 €
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Secrecy and Deceit documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. In coping with clandestineness, crypto-Jews rapidly evolved their own idiosyncratic religion. Its ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2002)
pvp.46,82 €
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On June 7, 1640, the viceroy of Catalonia was stabbed to death on a Barcelona beach. By Christmas, several more royal officials of the Spanish principality had been assassinated. In the wake of these and ...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2002)
pvp.29,00 €
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Reasserts the centrality of Jewish culture to contemporary discussions of diaspora.
Diaspora: the scattering of a people, often described as a condition of helplessness and a pathology to be overcome. It can also be, ...
BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS (2002)
pvp.37,50 €
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An account of the adventures of English marine explorer Martin Frobisher into Arctic Canada in 1576-8. With the blessing of Queen Elizabeth I, the privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a ...
ELECTA (2002)
pvp.51,49 €
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Attraverso un'ampia documentazione iconografica, che spazia dai capolavori della pittura alle immagini fotografiche delle singole invenzioni e dei loro ideatori, il volume offre un excursus originale e inedito sulle figure portanti dell'evoluzione tecnologica del nostro ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
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Historian Marc Simmons is already a favorite mong scholars, students, Hispanophiles, and orderland enthusiasts for his careful, readable histories of the American Southwest. In the twelve essays collected in Spanish Pathways, Simmons's topical, in-depth approach ...
LOS ANGELES COUNTRY MUSEUM OF ART (2002)
pvp.36,08 €
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Spain's colonial rule rested on a judicial system that resolved conflicts and meted out justice. But just how was this legal order imposed throughout the New World? Re-created here from six hundred civil and criminal ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
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This innovative study argues that the collapse of Classic Maya civilization was driven by catastrophic drought. Between A.D. 800 and 1000, unrelenting drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.71,18 €
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Flourishing by A.D. 250-300, Maya civilization extended over large sections of modern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as Belize, and into present-day El Salvador and Honduras. The pre-Conquest inhabitants of this vast area left important ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.29,64 €
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If history books obscure the important roles played by women of European origin in the United States, how much more invisible are Hispanic women? In correcting this omission, Hedda Garza documents and discusses the major ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.55,58 €
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As striking as its beautiful landscapes, New Mexico's culture is also endlessly complex. Thefourteen essays collected here examine many sides of Nuevomexicano culture: its treatment of the sacred, its discourses on identity and difference, its ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.35,07 €
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In New Mexican Lives, Richard Etulain and a distinguished group of twelve collaboratorsre-interpret the state's history through biography. Profiles of fourteen notable, complex characters provide a unique view into New Mexico's development from prehistoric times ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.78,98 €
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David Yetman's first foray into Mexico occurred in 1961, where he developed a lifelong fascination of and appreciation for the countryside and the people who lived in it. In southern Sonora, the author explored the ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.47,78 €
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The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, provision of supplies, and money, Spain helped the young British ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.35,10 €
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This judicious history of modern Mexico's revolutionary era will help all readers, and in particular students, understand the first great social uprising of the twentieth century. In 1911, land-hungry peasants united with discontented political elites ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.57,72 €
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is a popular topic in Borderlands history and southwestern anthropology. Historians have generally regarded it as an extraordinary and pivotal event and have sought to understand its causes and consequences, ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.47,76 €
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Chaco Canyon was a central place in the Ancient Southwest. Here, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, architects and masons constructed a dozen "great houses" made of formal masonry construction with as many as 650 ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2002)
pvp.27,28 €
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These essays explore the common roots of myth and history. Going back to the earliest Spanish explorers of the Southwest, Weber looks at some of the myths that informed the thought of Coronado and Fray ...
