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The Carrera Revolt and 'Hybrid Warfare' in Nineteenth-Century Central America
This book provides a novel analysis of the military campaign of Rafael Carrera during the popular insurrection of 1837-1840 in Guatemala. Over the course of three years Carrera, a semi-literate farmer, and his army of peasants established Conservative control over Guatemala and accelerated the disintegration of the Central American Federation. Although Carrera’s rise has been analyzed from a political and socio-economic perspective, the present work shows that Carrera’s vertiginous success is the product of a peculiar and misunderstood approach to warfare that combines guerrilla recruiting practices and rural insurgency logistics with conventional combat tactics and operations. Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo argues that Carrera’s hybrid warfare was made possible because of the conditions created by the militarization of Latin American society following the administrative reforms of the Bourbon monarchy in the late eighteenth century. The concept of hybrid warfare is offered as an alternative model to understand the success of other insurgencies.
Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies
This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent Iberian colonialism, gendered Westernization, and development for African women as well as actual imperial practices – from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to promoting domestic skills. Focusing on Angola, Mozambique, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author mines newly available and neglected documents, including sources from Portuguese and Spanish women’s organizations overseas. They offer insights into how African women perceived and responded to their assigned roles within an elite that was meant to preserve the empires and stabilize Afro-Iberian ties. The book also retraces parallels and differences between imperial strategies regarding women and the notions of African anticolonial movements about what women should contribute to the struggle for independence and the creation of new nation-states.
Digital Literacy at the Intersection of Equity, Inclusion, and Technology
At the forefront of contemporary higher education lies a need for a profound exploration of the relationships between equity, inclusion, and digital technologies. Across diverse disciplines, students and faculty grapple with the far-reaching impacts of this complex interplay. As our educational landscape transforms at an unprecedented pace, a national and global imperative emerges the necessity for a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by digital technologies. In response to this call, the book titled Digital Literacy at the Intersection of Equity, Inclusion, and Technology serves as a resource to help educators. This book seeks to unravel the issues that permeate the educational...
Unsettling Colonialism
An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world. Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, including literary fictions, travel narratives, political treatises, medical discourse, and the visual arts, across the global Hispanic world. By focusing on texts by and about women and foregrounding Spain’s pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book not only breaks new ground in Iberian literary and cultural studies but also significantly broadens the scope of r...
British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon
This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
A Savage and Romantic War
In the quarter-century after the fall of Napoleon, there were several wars in Europe, and this Spanish civil war was the lengthiest, and most varied. It was the first of a set of conflicts that split the nation and would continue to do so for a century and more. A Savage and Romantic War gives the wargamer all the information needed to play games set in Spain in these tumultuous seven years, and to make and paint the armies that fought. The First Carlist War is one that is becoming more familiar to English-speakers, and can be gamed in any scale, with dedicated ranges available in 28 and 18mm. Although taking place only two decades after the latter stages of the Peninsular campaign, and some...
Pólvora, plata u boleros
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El oro de América
Hollywood miente. Es hora de decirlo a las claras. Las fuerzas de la naturaleza y el inmenso y oscuro mar, más que los piratas o los buques de las naciones con las que se mantenían conflictos, fueron los auténticos enemigos de los barcos cargados de tesoros que cubrían la Carrera de Indias, la extraordinaria ruta marítima que unía los territorios de la monarquía a través del océano Atlántico. En 1493 regresó a la Península la expedición capitaneada por Cristóbal Colón, que anunció el descubrimiento de nuevas islas hacia las Indias. La expansión española en ese nuevo mundo fue rápida. A finales del siglo XVI, transcurridos apenas cien años, las florecientes ciudades de Mé...
Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World
In Nahuatl yolqui is the idea of a warrior brought back from the dead. For author and activist Roberto Cintli Rodríquez, it describes his own experience one night in March 1979 after a brutal beating at the hands of L.A. sheriffs. Framed by Rodríguez’s personal testimony of police violence, this book offers a historia profunda of the culture of extralegal violence against Red-Black-Brown communities in the United States. In addition to Rodríguez’s story, this book includes several short essays from victims and survivors that bring together personal accounts of police brutality and state-sponsored violence. This wide-ranging work touches on historical and current events, including the ...
Breve historia de España II: el camino hacia la modernidad
Arranca el siglo XVIII y una nueva dinastía inicia su andadura con Felipe V para culminar con Carlos III y la Ilustración. Los ilustrados Floridablanca, Campomanes o Esquilache (que dará nombre al famoso motín), no lograrán imponer sus tesis. Tras la Revolución Francesa (1789), Napoleón ambicionó dominar Europa y en España la guerra contra los franceses hará que el pueblo español añore a Fernando VII "el deseado". Después vendrá la guerra de sucesión y posteriormente las carlistas. La debilidad española propiciaría que las colonias americanas se independicen de la metrópoli. Con Isabel II llegará la construcción del estado liberal. Una vez expulsada Isabel II, Prim trae a...
