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Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Contemporary Archaeology and the City
This book argues archaeology is uniquely placed to contribute a variety of perspectives on the current life-cycles of cities including processes of decay, revitalization, and transformation. It foregrounds the materialities of post-industrial, post-modern and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 60
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Quem Não é Visto Não é Lembrado: Biografia, Retrato, Prestígio e Poder no Brasil do Século XIX (1800-1860)
O alvorecer do século XIX foi, tanto para os portugueses de Portugal quanto para os portugueses do Brasil, um período politicamente conturbado, e pontuado por acontecimentos cujos efeitos estimularam sentimento de perda e de nostalgia na relação entre um passado entendido como lócus da glória e da grandeza e um futuro incerto. Podemos perceber esse fenômeno a partir da análise de obras destinadas a celebrar e enaltecer experiências passadas de indivíduos e coletividades. Destaque deve ser concedido às inúmeras "galerias impressas" que passaram a ser editadas nas sociedades europeias e americanas, em publicações esteticamente cuidadosas, por vezes monumentais, desejosas de fazer...
