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Gendered Crossings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Gendered Crossings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-15
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them across the Atlantic to Montevideo. However, before the last ships reached the Americas, harsh weather, disease, and the prospect of mutiny on the Patagonian coast forced the Crown to abandon the project. Eventually, the peasant colonists were resettled in towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bought slaves, and gradually integrated into colonial society. Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants’ gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

After Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

After Stories

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories—geographic, temporal, storied—of several extended Salvadoran families. Traveling back and forth in time and across borders, Silber narrates the everyday unfolding of diasporic lives rich with acts of labor, love, and renewed calls for memory, truth, and accountability in El Salvador's long postwar. Through a retrospective and intimate ethnographic method that examines archives of memories and troubles the categories that have come to stand for "El Salvador" such as alarming violent numbers, Silber considers the lives of young Salv...

La Galicia austral
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 326

La Galicia austral

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Latin America Since the Left Turn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Latin America Since the Left Turn

Latin America Since the Left Turn frames the tensions and contradictions that currently characterize Latin American societies and politics in the early decades of the twenty-first century, when many countries elected left-wing governments in an attempt to reverse the neoliberal agenda while others continued and even extended it.

Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-24
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as present as the increase of private security, the re-militarization of law enforcement, political populism, and mano dura policies. The contributors to this volume discuss historical forms, paths, continuities, and changes of violence and its public and political discussion in the region. This book thus offers in-depth analysis of different patterns of violence, their reproduction over time, their articulation in the present, and finally their discursive mobilization.

The Complexity of Hispanic Religious Life in the 16th–18th Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The Complexity of Hispanic Religious Life in the 16th–18th Centuries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In The Complexity of Hispanic Religious Life in the 16th–18th Centuries, Doris Moreno has assembled a team of leading scholars to discuss and analyze the diversity of Hispanic religious and cultural life in the Early Modern Age. Using primary sources to look beyond the Spanish Black Legend and present new perspectives, this book explores the realities of a changing and plural Catholicism through the lens of crucial topics such as the Society of Jesus, the Inquisition, the Martyrdom, the feminine visions and conversion medicine. This volume will be an essential resource to all those with an interest in the knowledge of multiple expressions of tolerance and cultural dialectic between Spain and the Americas.

Archer M. Huntington
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Archer M. Huntington

At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became the foremost collector and face of Spanish art in the United States with the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. This organization, which served as a bridge between artists in Spain and wealthy patrons in the States, was the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and passion for Spanish culture for Huntington, one he would grapple with throughout his public and intellectual life. In Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America, Patricia Fernández Lorenzo offers, for the first time in English, a complete biography of Huntington, tracing his enthusiasm for Spain and the arts from his childhood, to his marriage to sculptor Anna Hyatt and his crisis of conscience in the wake of the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Drawing heavily from Archer’s correspondence and from Anna Hyatt Huntington’s papers, housed at Syracuse University, Fernández Lorenzo offers a full, deeply human portrait of one of the great patrons of Spanish art, giving a comprehensive look at Huntington’s role in defining Hispanicism in the United States.

The Struggle for Memory in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

The Struggle for Memory in Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-12
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 644

Bulletin

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

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Portuguese Migrations in Comparison: Historical Patterns and Transnational Continuities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Portuguese Migrations in Comparison: Historical Patterns and Transnational Continuities

This special issue of the Portuguese Studies Review presents studies by Emir Reitano, Oswaldo Truzzi and Ana Silvia Volpi Scott, Jo-Anne S. Ferreira, Marcelo J. Borges, Heloisa Paulo, Caroline B. Brettell, Zeila de Brito Fabri Demartini, Andrea Klimt, Roselyne de Villanova, Helena Carreiras, Diego Bussola, Maria Xavier, Beatriz Padilla, and Andrés Malamud. The studies cover Portuguese migration to Argentina, anti-Salazarist exiles in Brazil, early post-colonial Goa, post-1974 migration trends in São Paulo, identity and community formation among Portuguese immigrants in Germany and the United States, inter-generational processes characterizing Portuguese immigration to France, and collective identity processes spanning the borders of southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.