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L'ombre de la victoire

Authors: David Weber

Description: 1921-1922 POST DIASPORA L’Alignement mesan a plus d’un fer au feu. À l’origine du long conflit entre Manticore et Havre, la puissante secte eugéniste dresse désormais la Ligue solarienne contre les ennemis réconciliés. C’est aussi l’objectif de l’opération Janus : noyauter les mouvements de résistance aux gouvernements corrompus et au pillage des transstellaires dans les mondes aux marges de la Ligue ; leur faire miroiter l’assistance d’une puissance bienveillante ; allumer la mèche, quoi. Manticore en sera accusée. La guerre éclatera. Mais les plans machiavéliques les mieux conçus se retournent parfois contre leurs auteurs... Après L’Ombre de la liberté et Les Bas-fonds de Mesa, L’Ombre de la victoire achève de relater l’évolution des forces en présence. Dans le grand concert géopolitique de la Galaxie connue, David Weber y fait donner toutes les voix de l’orchestre. Dernier mouvement avant le final ?

Langue: fr

Publisher: L'Atalante

Categories: Fiction

Les Livres disponibles

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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.

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Categories: French imprints

Twilight of the Mission Frontier

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

Missionary Practices and Spanish Steel

Authors: Andrew L. Toth

Description: The work and ministries of the Roman Catholic friars who gave their lives, both as martyrs for the cause of their church and in years of hard and often thankless labor, are the inspiration and basis for Missionary Practices and Spanish Steel, a theological and practical narrative that seeks to remember and understand their accomplishments in Christian mission. Missionary and theologian Andrew L. Toth investigates the roots of Christian mission as it developed into the field of Christian missiology in the chaotic, terrible, and incredibly diverse three-hundred-year Spanish conquest of North America indigenous nations. Through his research Toth shows that, in the great majority of the cases studied, the friars accomplished their goals to transform these native cultures into their own Spanish culture to account them as Roman Catholic Christians. This study us more than just a history of the friars missionary movement. Toth not only explores how Spanish Catholic missionaries approached their work, but also asks to what extent their approach conformed to a particular theological perspective. Toth rounds out his argument by speculating on what the friars can teach us about the role of missionaries today. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, Missionary Practices and Spanish Steel offers a new perspective on the current missionary movement by looking through the lens of the past.

Langue: en

Publisher: iUniverse

Categories: History

How the Spanish Empire Was Built

Authors: Felipe Fernández-Armesto ,Manuel Lucena Giraldo

Description: “A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others.”—Wall Street Journal The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.

Langue: en

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Categories: History

Beasts of the Field

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

Annual Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana, Administrative Officers, Trustees and Superintendents of the Several Benevolent and Reformatory Institutions ...

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Annual Reports of ..., Submitted to the General Assembly of the State of Indiana

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Langue: en

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Categories: Indiana

Livres hebdo

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Langue: fr

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Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights

Authors: Lorrin R Thomas ,Aldo A Lauria Santiago

Description: Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose to prominence in the late 1960s was built on a foundation of civil rights activism beginning much earlier in the century. The text contextualizes Puerto Rican activism within the broader context of twentieth-century civil rights movements, while emphasizing the characteristics and goals unique to the Puerto Rican experience. Lucid and insightful, Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights provides a much-needed introduction to a lesser-known but critically important social and political movement.

Langue: en

Publisher: Routledge

Categories: History

Bibliographie nationale française

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Langue: fr

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Categories: Bibliography, National

Livres de France

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

Langue: fr

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Categories: French imprints

Bibliographic Guide to North American History

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Langue: en

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Categories: Canada

Cinematic Journeys in Latin America

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