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Explores how Veracruz's Afro-Mexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community.
The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.
This book examines how race, ethnicity, and religious difference affected the concession of citizenship in the Spanish Empire's territories.
This revised and updated third edition contains a wealth of new material that draws on new research in this area.
The first English translation of the field-defining work in Brazilian studies ethnohistory by the late John M. Monteiro.
This book explores the legal culture of nineteenth-century Mexico and explains why liberal institutions flourished in some social settings but not others.
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating the study of American history in a transnational context, they examine the history of nation-making and the relation of the United States to other nations and to transnational developments. What is now called globalization is here placed in a historical context. A cast of distinguished historians from the United States and abroad examines the historiographical implications of such a reframing and...
Research report, case study of economic conditions and economic and social implications of regional development in the central highlands of Peru - examines the role of the mining industry and its impact on social stratification, social class relations and internal migration; discusses rural economy, the growing informal sector and the transition from household production to income generating activities in urban areas. Bibliography, graphs, maps, statistical tables.
Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.
Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.