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Feast of Souls
A study of native responses to the imposition of Spanish spiritual and secular practices in North America.
Grandeur et misères de l'office
Appréhendant l'univers des officiers de l'administration des finances des xviie et xviiie siècles en Nouvelle-Espagne comme un espace social, cette étude reconstitue les pratiques, autant collectives qu'individuelles, d'un groupe de l'élite coloniale. La démarche suivie associe l'étude des parcours socioprofessionnels à celle de l'insertion familiale, sociale et économique de ces officiers. Au-delà, la reconstitution de leurs comportements débouche sur une réflexion relative aux modes de fonctionnement de l'appareil d'État dans une société coloniale de l'époque moderne. L'originalité de l'approche permet de défricher de nouvelles interprétations concernant les enjeux, les o...
Open Veins of Latin America
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are...
The Diplomatic Enlightenment
Eighteenth-century Spain drew on the Enlightenment to reconfigure its role in the European balance of power. As its force and its weight declined, Spanish thinkers discouraged war and zealotry and pursued peace and cooperation to reconfigure the international Spanish Empire.
Spanish Roots of America
"The purpose of this book is to highlight the contribution of Spain and of the Spanish-speaking countries to the forming of the United States of America, and to show year by year a presence that has been unbroken since the dawn of Spanish discovery of America in 1492. This brief historical summary gives events in the present territories of this country that involved Spain or the Hispanic countries. From among the many events that might have occurred in a given year, only a few have been taken. The facts are given in a brief and concise form because the purpose is to point out the deeds, not abundant details, which would lead to a more voluminous work. What is intended here is to state clearly that the Hispanic presence in this land has been continuous over the past five hundred years. The fact that the events are portrayed briefly should not be taken to mean those events were sporadic or fortuitous. Almost always those events or projects were the result of long thought and planning that involved the participation of many people, years of silent tasks, sizable investments, and very often the cost of many lives"--Introd.
Asturias y América
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