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A Scrapbook of Recollections – Missives to My Family was written in appreciation for the author’s family, his wife, Yvonne, three sons and their wives, David and Ceci, Daniel and Sandra, Joel and Liz, one daughter, Elena, eleven grandchildren, Jonathan, his wife, Missy and their daughter, Sofía, Evan, Isaac, Aaron, Andre, Benjamin, Alecsy, Jasmine, Joel Jr., Ellie and Carlitos. The book is to be given to each member of the family on the occasion of their family reunion December 28, 2024, on the cruise ship, Mariner of the Seas.
Chapter 1. Messages Sent, Messages Received?: The Papacy and the Latin American Church at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Lisa M. Edwards -- Chapter 2. Catholic Vanguards in Brazil - Dain Borges -- Chapter 3. Eucharistic Angels: Mexico's Nocturnal Adoration and the Masculinization of Postrevolutionary Catholicism, 1910-1930 - Matthew Butler -- Chapter 4. Transnational Subaltern Voices: Sexual Violence, Anticlericalism, and the Mexican Revolution - Robert Curley
Tells the story of New Spain's integration into the Pacific world and the impact it had on mobility and identity-making.
Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday. During their heyday the leading spa resorts became hotbeds of political and diplomatic intrigue, and gathering-points for high society. As such, they also became important businesses, and distinctive, carefully-managed urban environments. ‘Taking the waters’ at a mineral springs resort fell into eclipse over much of the Western world in the mid-twentieth century, only to revive in mor...
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This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.