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Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 609

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

The Protectors of Indians in the Royal Audience of Lima
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

The Protectors of Indians in the Royal Audience of Lima

  • Categories: Law

In The Protectors of Indians in the Royal Audience of Lima: History, Careers and Legal Culture, 1575-1775 Mauricio Novoa offers an account of the institution that developed in the vice-royalty of Peru for the protection of Indians before the high courts of justice. Making use of historical materials, Novoa provides a comprehensive view on the formation of the legal elite in Lima during the colonial period; reviews the litigation undertaken by indigenous plaintiffs, and explains the legal culture that allowed the development of juristic doctrine around the Indian personal status.

Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 908

Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance

V. 1. History and background, music and dance -- v. 2. Musical transcriptions -- v. 3. The notes in Spanish and other languages from the sources.

No Mere Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

No Mere Shadows

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

"Shirley Flint explores the stories of three widows in Mexico City, giving us a glimpse at the structure of everyday life in colonial Mexico, especially the ways that women conducted business, practiced religion, and manipulated politics. Each of these widows' stories illustrates an often overlooked aspect of Spanish life in the New World"--Provided by publisher.

Remote Beyond Compare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618

Remote Beyond Compare

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

These personal letters illuminate the author and the history of New Mexico as don Diego experienced it.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 32
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 728

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 32

"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?" Jefferson muses in this volume. His answer: "I do not know that it is." Required by custom to be "entirely passive" during the presidential campaign, Jefferson, at Monticello during the summer of 1800, refrains from answering attacks on his character, responds privately to Benjamin Rush's queries about religion, and learns of rumors of his own death. Yet he is in good health, harvests a bountiful wheat crop, and maintains his belief that the American people will shake off the Federalist thrall. He counsels James Monroe, the governor of Virginia, on the mixture of leniency and firmness to be shown in ...

Catalogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

Catalogue

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1962
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Estudos em homenagem ao professor doutor José Marques
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 1866

Estudos em homenagem ao professor doutor José Marques

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Michoacán and Eden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Michoacán and Eden

Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the desire to convert the native Purhépecha-Chichimec peoples to a purified form of Christianity, free of the corruptions of European Catholicism, he sought to establish New World Edens in Michoacán by congregating the people into pueblo-hospital communities, where mendicant friars could more easily teach them the fundamental beliefs of Christianity and the values of Spanish culture. In this broadly synthetic study, Bernardino Verástique explores Vasco de Quiroga's evangelizing project in its full cultural and historical context. He begins by recreating the complex and not wholly incompatible ...