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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Winner of the 2021 Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural agency of Guaraní--one of the primary indigenous peoples of Paraguay--not only in Jesuit missions but also in colonial settlements and Indian pueblos scattered in and around the Spanish city of Asunción, Austin argues that interethnic relations and cultural change in Paraguay can only be properly understood through the Guaraní logic of kinship. I...
"This book provides very important evidence that changes in institutional attitudes toward manual language can be traced to broader changes in the accepted conceptions of the nature of language. . . . [It] will prove to be a milestone in the developing discipline of deaf history."--Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Biographical material on maternal ancestors of the author and their contemporaries with hisorical background of the times back to the conquest of Mexico by Cortez. The authors ancestor's were among the founders of Monterrey, Saltillo, and other areas. Duaine's mother was the daughter of Juan Rios and Macadonia Ramirez of Mier, Mexico.
UNA GRAN EPOPEYA, UNA CIVILIZACIÓN DESAPARECIDA. EL EPISODIO MÁS DESCONOCIDO DE LA HISTORIA DE ESPAÑA. Por el premiado autor de EL BUEN PADRE, con más de 150.000 lectores. «Es mejor morir con dignidad que vivir esclavizados». Siglo I a.C. Tras amotinarse en el barco en el que los trasladaban los romanos, un grupo de prisioneros de guerra africanos y sus mujeres son arrastrados por las corrientes a la isla de Tenerife. Durante mil quinientos años, sus descendientes crean allí una civilización aislada del resto del mundo, hasta que los nueve reinos que componen el territorio guanche se convierten en objetivo de los Reyes Católicos. La sangre se derramará de norte a sur de la isla en...