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Herding Chickens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Herding Chickens

Get The Straight Scoop On Project Management--Ingenious Strategies That Work! Have you studied the traditional processes of project management, only to discover that in reality they fall short? Are you done with the idealistic theories of how things should function and eager to apply some street-smart tactics that tackle the real problems like egos, cliques, and squabbles? Welcome to the fine art of Herding Chickens--unconventional, innovative techniques for successful project management. Inside, the authors divulge expert approaches to getting a disparate project team moving in one direction. In their engaging style, they'll show you novel ways to boost efficiency, eliminate chaos, and ulti...

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today.

Shadows of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Shadows of Empire

This book traces the history of the late colonial Andean elite and their privilege and authority.

House documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 768

House documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Tome of Horror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Tome of Horror

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Imposing Harmony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Imposing Harmony

Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco’s musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indigenous professional musicians, rivaling Cuzco Cathedral in the scale and frequency of the musical performances they staged. Building on recent scholarship by social historians and urban musicologists and drawing on extensive archival research, Ba...

A Tale of Two Granadas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

A Tale of Two Granadas

In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Spanish nativist factions zealously attacked them as unequal and unqualified, unleashing an intense political battle that lasted almost two decades. At stake was whether membership in the small colonial community and thus access to its most lucrative professions should depend on limpieza de sangre (blood purity) or values-based integration (Christian citizenship). A Tale of Two Granadas examines the vast, trans-Atlantic transformation of political ideas about subjecthood that ultimately allowed some colonial mestizos and indios ladinos (acculturated natives) to establish urban citizenship alongside Spaniards in colonial Santafé de Bogotá and Tunja. In a spirit of comparison, it illustrates how some of the descendants of Spain's last Muslims appealed to the same new conceptions of citizenship to avoid disenfranchisement in the face of growing prejudice.

Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century

In the seventeenth century, Veracruz was the busiest port in the wealthiest colony in the Americas. People and goods from five continents converged in the city, inserting it firmly into the early modern world's largest global networks. Nevertheless, Veracruz never attained the fame or status of other Atlantic ports. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century is the first English-language, book-length study of early modern Veracruz. Weaving elements of environmental, social, and cultural history, it examines both Veracruz's internal dynamics and its external relationships. Chief among Veracruz's relationships were its close ties within the Caribbean. Emphasizing relationships of small-scale trade and migration between Veracruz and Caribbean cities like Havana, Santo Domingo, and Cartagena, Veracruz and the Caribbean shows how the city's residents – especially its large African and Afro-descended communities – were able to form communities and define identities separate from those available in the Mexican mainland.

Nationalizing Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Nationalizing Nature

An insightful look at how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas.

Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755

Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.