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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2011)
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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most respected scientists of his time; Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. From 1799 Humboldt spent five years exploring the Americas, reporting his ...
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
pvp.116,00 €
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As a whole, Cuban history, culture, and art are often misconstrued with a heritage specific to Havana. In "Cuba's Wild East," Peter Hulme attempts to right this wrong, focusing on the eastern region of the ...
SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS (2011)
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This volume, the first of its genre in English, brings together the pioneering work of scholars of urban Indians of colonial Latin America. An important, but understudied segment of colonial society, urban Indians composed a ...
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LA MARCA EDITORA (2011)
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El muestreo fenomenológico de Buenos Aires que aquí presentamos se trata de una vasta recopilación de imágenes a través de un procedimiento de tipologización de la información visual que ofrece esta ciudad al paseante. Sobre ...
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (2011)
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This book consists of a previously unidentified corpus of literature that contains an edition of eighty-four testimonies of the sixteenth-century responsa. An overview of the responsa literature in the relevant context and aspects of Ottoman ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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Gertrude Tennant's life was remarkable for its length (1819-1918), but even more so for the influence she achieved as an unsurpassed London hostess. The salon she established when widowed in her early fifties attracted legions ...
BERG PUBLISHER (2011)
pvp.850,00 €
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oss post-industrial societies worldwide, the creative industries are increasingly seen as a key economic driver. These industries - including fields as diverse as advertising, art, computer games, crafts, design, fashion, film, museums, music, performing arts, ...
DU PALIO EDITIONS (2011)
pvp.45,00 €
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Il arrive que l'on bute, au cours d'une lecture ou encore d'une discussion, voire d'un moment d'étude, sur un mot, une référence, dont on souhaiterait connaître aussi vite que possible le sens, la signification, la ...
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS (2011)
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In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2011)
pvp.240,00 €
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Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world ...
TAMESIS (2011)
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During the 1950s and 1960s, several key Catalan authors set about rewriting some of their narrative work despite the obstacles to publication in Catalan under the Franco regime. This study describes the social, political and ...
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (2011)
pvp.140,00 €
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Colonial Spanish bureaucracy produced masses of "autobiographical" texts ('relaciones de méritos and servicios') which forced/invited individuals to present themselves as perfect subjects of the King in order to be rewarded. Bureaucracy produced the officials of ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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"Unspeakable Violence addresses the epistemic and physical violence inflicted on racialized and gendered subjects in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Arguing that this violence was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, ...
BERGHAHN BOOKS (2011)
pvp.62,88 €
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Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora - a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism - are politicised and highly contested. The Miami-based Cuban diaspora has ...
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Since his impressive debut at the 2009 Venice Biennale, Tomás Saraceno (b. San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1973; lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) has been a fixture of the international art scene. In ...
OXFORD U. P. (2011)
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Brings together the latest scholarship from archaeological studies of ancient societies to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence
Provides the necessary context for understanding U.S. policies such as the border wall and ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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"In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from the western coast of Africa, particularly from modern-day Benin. She ...
RIZZOLI (2011)
pvp.69,00 €
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An unprecedented tour of stunning and architecturally significant Cuban palacios, mansions, and private homes that have been meticulously preserved, previously un-photographed, and inaccessible to visitors. At a time when more travelers are rediscovering Cuba, this ...
BREPOLS PUBLISHERS (2011)
pvp.128,54 €
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Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Big-Picture Background to this Study - Historiographical Background -Metaphors and Reality - Utility as the Driving Force - Expertise, Careers, and Wanderlust -Concluding Introductory Remarks
Prologue - ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
pvp.62,00 €
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Contested Visions offers a comparative view of the two principal vice royalties of Spanish America: Mexico and Peru. Spanning developments from the 15th to the 19th century, this ambitious book looks at the many ways ...