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The Mexican Revolution
Analytical study of national budget provisions to alleviate poverty and achieve social change in Mexico (social expenditure) - covers historical aspects, political aspects of budgetary policy, military expenditures, investments, rural area credit, financial aspects of social services and welfare, education, economic growth, changes in the social structure, illiteracy, the standard of living, cultural change, etc. Statistical tables, and bibliography pp. 307 to 322.
Knights of the Golden Rule
This is a book about American intellectuals as would-be social reformers and what happens to them in the arena of practical politics. Specifically, it examines the lives of ten highly idealistic Christian socialist and anarchist intellectuals of the 1890s who were profoundly influenced—indeed inspired—by the prophetic social messages and exemplary lives of Tolstoy, Mazzini, and Ruskin. The ten Americans—including ministers, journalists, professors, and poets—were constantly thwarted in their efforts to apply the Golden Rule and the ethics of Jesus not only to the socioeconomic institutions of their society, but to their own lives as well. These ten Christian knights rode high on clou...
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History
An illuminating intellectual biography of a pioneering and singular figure in American art history. Art historian George A. Kubler (1912–1996) was a foundational scholar of ancient American art and archaeology as well as Spanish and Portuguese architecture. During over five decades at Yale University, he published seventeen books that included innovative monographs, major works of synthesis, and an influential theoretical treatise. In this biography, Thomas F. Reese analyzes the early formation, broad career, and writings of Kubler, casting nuanced light on the origins and development of his thinking. Notable in Reese’s discussion and contextualization of Kubler’s writings is a reveali...
Honor and Personhood in Early Modern Mexico
An examination of the concept of honor as essential to both colonial Spaniards and indigenous Mexicans
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13
This book is part of an encyclopedia set concerning the environment, archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. The Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources is comprised of volumes 12-15 of this set. Volume 13 presents a look at pre-Columbian Mesoamerican from a combined historical and anthropological viewpoint, using official ecclesiastical and government records from the time.
