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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...
Brides of Christ
Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico.
Related Lives
In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff explores the ways in which clerics related to those female penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern age. Bil...
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Casa, vecindario y cultura en el siglo XVIII
La vida diaria de las personas que habitaban las ciudades iberoamericanas del siglo XVIlI tenía lugar básicamente en dos espacios: la casa y el vecindario, en los cuales se entablaban relaciones sociales de distintos tipos donde se manifestaba toda la complejidad cultural que puede tener una sociedad.
Sincronías Barrocas (siglos XVI-XVIII). Agentes textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa
Sincronías barrocas offre prospettive decentrate sugli incontri tra Asia, Iberoamerica ed Europa, dal XVI al XVIII secolo. Si pone l'accento sulla prospettiva transpacifica e sugli agenti che ne sono stati i protagonisti. Questo volume collettivo in spagnolo e inglese comprende analisi sugli eventi che hanno rafforzato le connessioni e le loro propaggini (oggetti di uso quotidiano, cibo, testi letterari e testi) essenziali per comprendere la formazione delle storie globali durante questo periodo. Le opere contenute in questo libro gettano così nuova luce su molteplici aspetti della prima globalizzazione e delle sue conseguenze nel Pacifico verso i diversi nodi della monarchia spagnola. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-313-5
The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos
The Pan American Games, second only to the Olympics as the biggest international sports competition in the world, are held every four years (during the year prior to the Summer Olympics) under the sponsorship of the International Olympic Committee. This book lists the results of the Pan American Games from their commencement in 1951 through 1999. Los Juegos Panamericanos, los segundos mas importantes del mundo tras los Olimpicos, se han venido celebrando cada cuatro anos desde 1951. Se incluye en el presente trabajo bilingue un recuento de los resultados reflejados en dichos juegos a lo largo de su historia, desde los comienzos hasta los mas recientes, celebrados en 1999.
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.
Religion and Society in Latin America
Fourteen essays examine the impact of religion on the cultures and peoples of Latin America, from the beginning of the Spanish conquest to the twenty-first century, covering Catholicism, Protestantism, indigenous religious traditions, African-based religions, and Pentecostalism.
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