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"Written by a direct descendant of the McMullan family, The Elusive Eden is the first study of Frank McMullan's colony. The book sheds new light on a forgotten episode of Texas and Latin American history. Drawing on a vast body of unpublished documentary material, some still in private hands, it opens a new vista on the troubled years following the Civil War."--back cover.
The collapse of the Portuguese empire in the Americas in the early nineteenth century did not immediately or easily translate into the formation of the independent nation-state of Brazil. While ?Brazil? had geographic meaning, it did not constitute a cohesive political identity that could draw on basic loyalties. The tumultuous struggle to nationhood in Brazil was marked by the interplay of differing social groups, political parties, and regions. A series of violent revolts in Pernambuco, a large slaveholding, sugar-producing province in northeastern Brazil, exposed the tensions accompanying state and nation building. Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building delves into the complex a...
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America provides a unique, comprehensive, and critical overview of Latin American studies in the nineteenth century, including the major regions and subfields. The essays in this collection offer a complex, yet accessible transdisciplinary overview of the heterogeneous and asynchronous historical, political, and cultural processes that account for the becoming of Latin America in the nineteenth century—from Mexico and the Caribbean Basin to the Southern Cone. The thematic division of the book into six parts allows for a better understanding of the ways in which different themes are interrelated and affords readers the opp...
Revised edition of Cooksland in north-eastern Australia..., 1847; Chap.12; on the Aborigines; General account of theory of origin; Quotes Leichhardt, Mitchell on physical appearance, basketry, weapons, canoes, types of food, beecatching, fishing; Tribal territories, government; Property ownership, marriage, medicine and treatment of illness, initiation, shelters, cooking, beliefs, cannibalism, disposal of the dead; Corroborees; Language; Includes 2 papers by W. Ridley and one by G.D. Lang; Summary of missionary work; Appendix H gives approximately 100 words of Moreton Bay dialect, 40 words of Frazer Is. dialect; Appendix I is Journal of Missionary tour by W. Ridley.