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Blood and Boundaries
Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin America. Schwartz examines the three minority of groups of moriscos, conversos, and mestizos. Muslim and Jewish converts and their descendants posed a special problem for colonial society: Their conversion to Christianity seemed to violate stable social categories and identities. This led to the creation of cleanliness of blood regulations that discriminated against converts and other parts of the population. These groups often found legal and practical means to challenge the efforts to exclude them, creating the dynamic societies of Latin America.
Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe
Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe offers a new look at early modern Catholic Europe through the lens of the diverse experiences of elite women, using a historiographical approach to analyze women’s roles through changing political, social, and cultural contexts. Through novel practices and broad social networks, distinguished women assumed prominent roles, from queens and princesses, to aristocrats and great nobles, to women of faith and religion. As the Counter-Reformation and the transition toward Enlightenment ideology swept France, Spain, and Italy, literacy and education became more accessible to upper-class women, who began to create new traditions in place of the old ways that were falling short. The case studies in this volume, ranging from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, uncover the ways in which women were developing leadership skills and preserving status through participation in historical processes that affected real estate, the Church, and the social and family organization across Catholic Europe. This book is an ideal resource for students and researchers studying early modern women and Catholic Europe.
The Conquest of the Desert
Winner of the 2021 Thomas McGann Book Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's "Golden Age" of progress, modernity, and--most contentiously--national whiteness and the "invisibilization" of Indigenous peoples. This traditional narrative has deeply influenced the ways in which many Argentines understand their nation's history, its laws and policies, and its cultural heritage. As such, the Conquest has shaped debates about the role of Indigenous peoples within Argentina in the past and present. The Conquest of the Desert brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of the Conquest and its legacies. This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina's most important historical periods.
Los mundos del trabajo
Este libro reflexiona sobre las especificidades y multiplicidades de las experiencias del trabajo y de los trabajadores y trabajadoras en América Latina y el Caribe en clave histórica. Sus páginas se presentan como parte de un legado historiográfico que en las últimas décadas permitió ampliar los modos de entender los mundos del trabajo a partir de la incorporación de nuevas variables, métodos y fuentes. Durante este tiempo, la historia social del trabajo se ha esforzado por colocar en el centro de la narrativa a los trabajadores, sean estos esclavizados o asalariados, obreros de las fábricas o trabajadores del mar. Los autores convocados emplean metodologías y estrategias narrati...
First Laugh
Concerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the center of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distill experience has drawn readers into new experiences and insights. Tempered by time and reflecting a life fully lived and richly examined, her thoughts on race, gender, poetry, landscape, cellular memory, and personal loss speak with eloquence and urgency.
Cuentos
Seres inanimados como una jaula y un alfiler, una diversidad de animales, varios niños y algunos adultos son los protagonistas de estos nueve relatos originales, plagados de ternura y enseñanzas: «La jaulita dorada», «Nika», «Chinbrú», «Pascua», «Bimbo» —un hermoso perro capaz de sanar—,«Tiflor», «La paloma blanca», «El alfiler de cabeza negra» y «Tío Antonio» componen esta invitación de la autora a cruzar la puerta mágica de la fantasía. El deseo de Eduarda Mansilla de sobrevivir en la memoria de los argentinos más jóvenes la llevó a escribir «Cuentos» (1880), la primera obra literaria infantil publicada en su país, merecedora de los elogios de Domingo F. Sarmiento. Eduarda Mansilla (1834-1892) fue una escritora y periodista argentina. Autora de una vasta obra, por su excelencia literaria es considerada precursora de las letras argentinas y una de las pioneras en el género del cuento infantil. Participó de manera activa en la vida cultural de su tiempo y colaboró con diversos medios periodísticos. Publicó, junto con Juana Manso y otras autoras, el periódico literario ilustrado «La Flor del Aire».
