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Author : María Emma Mannarelli
Release : 2007
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Private Passions and Public Sins by : María Emma Mannarelli
Download or read book Private Passions and Public Sins written by María Emma Mannarelli. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.
Author : Danielle Terrazas Williams
Release : 2022-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 062/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Capital of Free Women by : Danielle Terrazas Williams
Download or read book The Capital of Free Women written by Danielle Terrazas Williams. This book was released on 2022-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives "A breathtaking study that places free African-descended women at the nexus of questions about religion, commerce, and the law in colonial Mexico. Danielle Terrazas Williams has produced a dazzling and important contribution to the history of women, family, race, and slavery in the Americas."--Sophie White, author of Voices of the Enslaved The Capital of Free Women examines how African-descended women strove for dignity in seventeenth-century Mexico. Free women in central Veracruz, sometimes just one generation removed from slavery, purchased land, ran businesses, managed intergenerational wealth, and owned slaves of African descent. Drawing from archives in Mexico, Spain, and Italy, Danielle Terrazas Williams explores the lives of African-descended women across the economic spectrum, evaluates their elite sensibilities, and challenges notions of race and class in the colonial period.
Author : Martín Bowen
Release : 2023-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Age of Dissent by : Martín Bowen
Download or read book The Age of Dissent written by Martín Bowen. This book was released on 2023-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life. While contestation and seditious ideas had always been present in the region, never before had local regimes been forced to consider radical dissension as an unavoidable dimension of politics. Focusing on urban Chile between the first anticolonial conspiracy of 1780 and the consolidation of an authoritarian regime in 1833, the book argues that this revolution was caused by how people practiced communication and framed its power.
Author : Carlos Aguirre
Release : 2017-03-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 181/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lima Reader by : Carlos Aguirre
Download or read book The Lima Reader written by Carlos Aguirre. This book was released on 2017-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the “City of Kings.”
Author : Matthew D. O'Hara
Release : 2009-04-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Imperial Subjects by : Matthew D. O'Hara
Download or read book Imperial Subjects written by Matthew D. O'Hara. This book was released on 2009-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations of identity as they investigate how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multi-ethnic progeny understood who they were as individuals, as members of various communities, and as imperial subjects. The contributors’ explorations of the relationship between colonial ideologies of difference and the identities historical actors presented span the entire colonial period and beyond: from early contact to the legacy of colonial identities in the new republics of the nineteenth century. The volume includes essays on the major colonial centers of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil, as well as the Caribbean basin and the imperial borderlands. Whether analyzing cases in which the Inquisition found that the individuals before it were “legally” Indians and thus exempt from prosecution, or considering late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century petitions for declarations of whiteness that entitled the mixed-race recipients to the legal and social benefits enjoyed by whites, the book’s contributors approach the question of identity by examining interactions between imperial subjects and colonial institutions. Colonial mandates, rulings, and legislation worked in conjunction with the exercise and negotiation of power between individual officials and an array of social actors engaged in countless brief interactions. Identities emerged out of the interplay between internalized understandings of self and group association and externalized social norms and categories. Contributors. Karen D. Caplan, R. Douglas Cope, Mariana L. R. Dantas, María Elena Díaz, Andrew B. Fisher, Jane Mangan, Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Matthew D. O’Hara, Cynthia Radding, Sergio Serulnikov, Irene Silverblatt, David Tavárez, Ann Twinam
