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To the End of the Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

To the End of the Earth

"Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846"--Jacket.

The Making of the Mexican Border
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

The Making of the Mexican Border

The issues that dominate U.S.-Mexico border relations today—integration of economies, policing of boundaries, and the flow of workers from south to north and of capital from north to south—are not recent developments. In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico. Mora-Torres argues that the years between the establishment of the U.S.-Mexico boundary in 1848 and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 constitute a critical period in Mexican history. The processes of state-bui...

The July Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

The July Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-21
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  • Publisher: AK Press

The “Tragic Week" in Spain, which took place in July 1909, began as anti-conscription riots, but soon evolved into a widespread uprising attacking the pillars of Spanish society: Church and State. It is known today mostly for its most famous martyr, Francisco Ferrer, the radical educator and founder of the Modern School who was executed by the Spanish army. But Ferrer was only one of hundreds of people who died that week in a brutal crackdown on anarchists and other radicals. Thousands were indicted by military courts, including at least fifty who received life sentences. In The July Revolution, the full story of these events is told for the first time in English, by an astute newspaper editor and eye-witness to the events. In a lively translation by Slava Faybysh and with a detailed historical Introduction by James Michael Yeoman, the notorious week is given its historical due and situated in its proper context of Spain’s imperial ambitions and the revolutionary stirrings that were precursors to the Spanish Civil War.

Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

This volume considers the responses to the social and institutional norms of the Spanish colonial system along Spain's northern frontier provinces.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484
A Mexican Family Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

A Mexican Family Empire

Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate—the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four hundred years. A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros. Located in the northern state of Coahuila, the Sánchez Navarro family's latifundio was composed of seventeen haciendas and covered more than 16.5 million acres—the size of West Virginia. Charles H. Harris pla...

Beyond the Alamo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 550

Beyond the Alamo

This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 uses the first three chapters to examine 1821, taking stock of the multiple changes underway at independence. The chapters set up three social worlds coexisting in the region and affecting the development of the others....Part 2 follows the development of ethnicity and nationalism through Texas secessi...

Swimming the Christian Atlantic (2 vols)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

Swimming the Christian Atlantic (2 vols)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-09-30
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new understandings of the transformations in ethnic and religious identity faced by peoples from all the surrounding continents. Long used by scholars of Jewish studies, records from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions have become an important source for historians of Africans and Amerindians in the Iberian colonial orbit. Using these and other materials, this book explores race, religion and politics among three newly and incompletely Christianized groups in the seventeenth century: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians. This fresh cross-cultural analysis brings these differing trajectories into dialogue.

Beyond the Alamo (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322
After the Massacre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

After the Massacre

Chronicles the Spanish expedition to punish the Taovaya Indians and their allies after the Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba was burned to the ground.