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Reveals how ordinary subjects in the New World aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire.
Crossing the boundaries of classically delineated medical and surgical specialties including neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and neurology, Interventional Neuroradiology uses advanced neuroimaging combined with endovascular techniques to guide catheters and devices through blood vessels to treat disease involving structures of the head, neck, and cen
This book examines how race, ethnicity, and religious difference affected the concession of citizenship in the Spanish Empire's territories.
Explores how Veracruz's Afro-Mexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community.
Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context. In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race-based slavery and its aftermath, with 1619--the year that the first recorded enslaved persons of African descent arrived in British North America--taking center stage as its starting point. Yet this dialogue has inadvertently narrowed our understanding of sl...
Las obras hidráulicas tuvieron un lugar de capital importancia en la Santafé virreinal. Si bien la construcción de acueductos, canales de desagüe y puentes no fue exclusiva del siglo xviii, vale la pena advertir que para finales de este siglo aumentaron las discusiones y controversias en torno al mejoramiento de la infraestructura hidráulica. Formalmente, lo anterior se ampara en la considerable cantidad de expedientes capitulares, audienciales, notariales y financieros que nos hablan de las construcciones e intervenciones hidráulicas adelantadas en la ciudad. Tal tipo de evidencia es útil no sólo para imaginar el rostro material de la Santafé dieciochesca, sino además para reflexionar en torno a los argumentos y justificaciones bajo los que la administración capitalina decidió ejecutar —o no— ciertos proyectos.
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A survey of the fundamental issues and techniques surrounding risk management.