Authors: Jose De la Torre Curiel

Description: Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora. During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and modern society. At the same time, new forms of what this book identifies as pluriethnic mobility also emerged. Franciscan missionaries and mission residents deployed diverse strategies to cope with these changes and results varied from region to region, depending on such factors as the missionaries' backgrounds, Indian responses to mission life, local economic arrangements, and cultural exchanges between Indians and Spaniards.

Langue: en

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Categories: History

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Description: La liste exhaustive des ouvrages disponibles publiés en langue française dans le monde. La liste des éditeurs et la liste des collections de langue française.

Langue: fr

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Categories: French imprints

Authors: John Lennard

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Langue: en

Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks

Categories: History

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Description: Includes articles on international business opportunities.

Langue: en

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Categories: Business

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Book industries and trade

Authors: Richard Steven Street

Description: Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.

Langue: en

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Categories: History

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Description: Includes, 1982-1995: Les Livres du mois, also published separately.

Langue: fr

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Categories: French imprints

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Description: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Langue: en

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Categories: Catalogs, Union

Authors: Barbara Reyes

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Langue: en

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Categories: Missions, Spanish

Authors: Samuel Cox ,Sir William Robertson Nicoll ,James Moffatt

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Langue: en

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Categories: Bible

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Christian antiquities

Authors: Richard Francaviglia

Description: This book critically examines how movies that feature real or imagined explorers and expeditions creatively feature the geography of Latin America. It focuses on how locales are scripted into film plots and artistically depicted, and demonstrates that place is as important as any character in a film, especially in this genre. Nineteen key films are analyzed. Some, like Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, The Other Conquest, Embrace of the Serpent, and The Lost City of Z are based on the exploits of real explorers. Others are fictional, including Apocalypto, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Dora and the Lost City of Gold. The author also discusses the evolution of exploration-discovery films, including trends that will likely be found in forthcoming movies.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Performing Arts

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Langue: en

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Authors: Bancroft Library

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Langue: en

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Categories: America

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Langue: en

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Authors: F. Arturo Rosales

Description: Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is the most comprehensive account of the arduous struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights. It is also a companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Both this published volume and the video series are a testament to the Mexican American communityÍs hard-fought battle for social and legal equality as well as political and cultural identity. Since the United States-Mexico War, 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have striven to achieve full rights as citizens. From peaceful resistance and violent demonstrations, when their rights were ignored or abused, to the establishment of support organizations to carry on the struggle and the formation of labor unions to provide a united voice, the movement grew in strength and in numbers. However, it was during the 1960s and 1970s that the campaign exploded into a nationwide groundswell of Mexican Americans laying claim, once and for all, to their civil rights and asserting their cultural heritage. They took a name that had been used disparagingly against them for years„Chicano„and fashioned it into a battle cry, a term of pride, affirmation and struggle. Aimed at a broad general audience as well as college and high school students, Chicano! focuses on four themes: land, labor, educational reform and government. With solid research, accessible language and historical photographs, this volume highlights individuals, issues and pivotal developments that culminated in and comprised a landmark period for the second largest ethnic minority in the United States. Chicano! is a compelling monument to the individuals and events that transformed society.

Langue: en

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Categories: History

Authors: Charlotte May Gradie

Description: Analyzes the Tepehuan revolt of 1616 and the events leading up to it from the perspectives of the Tepehuanes, the Spanish, and the Jesuit Order. Examines how the revolt influenced each of these groups, describing how the Spanish revised their frontier Indian policy, the Jesuits continued their missionary work, and the Tepehuanes lost their remaining vestiges of independence. Advances an alternative explanation for the revolt, claiming that Tepehuan leaders sought to regain control over their people and to revive intertribal warfare through which positions of leadership were traditionally acquired. Author information is not given. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Langue: en

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Categories: History

Authors: Rose Arny

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature