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Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 726

Foreign Consular Offices in the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1937
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Gazette
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1012

Official Gazette

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Cord Keepers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

The Cord Keepers

Breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of ancient, knowledge-encoded cords to the present day.

  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

"Lazy, Improvident People"

Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype. MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before....

Before the Pioneers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

Before the Pioneers

“In this riveting account, Frank moves beyond stories of recent development to uncover the deep history of a place profoundly shaped by mound-builders, slaves, raiders, and traders. This book will change the way you think about Florida history.”—Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America “Reveals that Old Miami seems a lot like New Miami: a place bursting with energy and desperation, fresh faces, and ancient dreams.”—Gary R. Mormino, author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida “A deep, intelligent look at the parade of peoples who dotted the north bank of the Miami River for thousand...

Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2646

Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-05
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literat...

Spain and Portugal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 820

Spain and Portugal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Cumulated Index Medicus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1768

Cumulated Index Medicus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Catalog of Copyright Entries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1484

Catalog of Copyright Entries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Religion in the Andes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Religion in the Andes

Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.