During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico they were grouped together and categor... Lees meer.

An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution 1910 1920 introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity progress national grandeur and stability state surveyors assessed la... Lees meer.

Volume two of the Codex Chimalpahin represents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extensive... Lees meer.

Boston born and bred John Wieners was a queer self-styled poete maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. The letters collected in this volume are greatly enhanced by a preface and thorough introduction notes and brief bios o... Lees meer.

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Examines John Ashbery s poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty s conception of phenomenology. Elisabeth Joyce argues that this reflects Ashbery s classic statement of poetry being the experience of experience . In A Serpentine Gesture . John Ashbery s P... Lees meer.

Making History. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture arts education and American Indian studies. Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources this book guides readers students educators... Lees meer.

A collaboration between Native activists professionals and scholars Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination.... Lees meer.

This is the second volume covering native and introduced American orchids north of Mexico and Florida with detailed data on genetic compatibility breeding systems pollinators pollination mechanisms fruiting success and limiting factors for each species. Recent st... Lees meer.

This is the first Yoeme dictionary ever published. It includes a detailed introduction and informative facts about Yaqui culture.... Lees meer.

The West remains unsettled both by cultural habits intellectual debate and ecological conditions. In these four essays comprising the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Donald Worster incisively discusses just how the natural environment has pla... Lees meer.

Restricted at the behest of her family until the year 2000 Rudnick s edition of these remarkable documents represents the culmination of more than thirty-five years of study of Luhan s life writings lovers friends and Luhan s social and cultural milieus in Italy N... Lees meer.

Historians of labour in the United States have given scant attention to Mexican American workers and their trade union activity. This panoramic history summarises the origins of this work force and the social and economic changes the workers experienced as industrialisa... Lees meer.

This two-volume edition was written by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith specialist on the Mexican-American War. For his exceptional work Smith was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for History.Aseveryone understands the conflict with Mexico has been almost entirel... Lees meer.

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