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Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontier - and how race, religion, age, and ethnicity shaped female experiences. It explores the suppression of women's experiences and cultural resistance to domination, and reveals the many codes of silence regarding the use of force at the missions, the treatment of women, indigenous ceremonies, sexuality, and dreams."--BOOK JACKET.

Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 516

Colombia

Documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia. This title explores how local and regional initiatives relate to national efforts and identifies possible synergies. It examines the multiple roles of civil society and the international community in the country's complex search for peace.

Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book provides a study of the American anti-imperialist movement during its most active years of opposition to US foreign policy, from 1898 to 1909. It re-evaluates the movement's motives and operations throughout these years by evaluating the way in which Americans conceived the idea of 'liberty.'

Guide to Specialists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Guide to Specialists

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

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In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality

The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. has too often cast him in the image of the Southern black preacher and the American Gandhi, while ignoring or trivializing his global connections and significance. This groundbreaking work, written by scholars, religious leaders, and activists of different backgrounds, addresses this glaring pattern of neglect in King studies. King is treated here as both a global figure and a forerunner of much of what is currently associated with contemporary globalization theory and praxis. The contributors to this volume agree that King must be understood not only as a thinker, visionary, and social change agent in his own historical context, but also in terms of his meaning for the different generations who still appeal to him as an authority, inspiration, and model of exemplary service to humanity. The task of engaging King both in context and beyond context is fulfilled in remarkable ways in this volume, without doing essential violence to this phenomenal figure.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 887

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics, and it shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of polities and societies.

On the Borders of Love and Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

On the Borders of Love and Power

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.

The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery

In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts. Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations, rebels were prompted to act by ...

Colonial Rosary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Colonial Rosary

California would be a different place today without the imprint of Spanish culture and the legacy of Indian civilization. The colonial Spanish missions that dot the coast and foothills between Sonoma and San Diego are relics of a past that transformed California's landscape and its people. In a spare and accessible style, Colonial Rosary looks at the complexity of California's Indian civilization and the social effects of missionary control. While oppressive institutions lasted in California for almost eighty years under the tight reins of royal Spain, the Catholic Church, and the government of Mexico, letters and government documents reveal the missionaries' genuine concern for the Indian c...

Framing a Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Framing a Revolution

Using over 100 in-depth interviews, this book examines how gendered framing contests between warring groups affect peace prospects in Colombia.