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  • The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias

    by David T. Orique ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas’s controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition.Bartolomé de las Casas proclaimed: "I have labored to inquire about, study, and discern the law; I have ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820)

    Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness

    Edited by David T. Orique, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Cynthia Folquer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500–c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International Conference on the History of the Order of Preachers in the Americas, a gathering that stands in continuity with the conferences of Mexico (2013) and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    By 2025, Latin America's population of observant Christians will be the largest in the world. Nonetheless, studies examining the exponential growth of global Christianity tend to overlook this region, focusing instead on Africa and Asia. Research on Christianity in Latin America provides a core point of departure for understanding the growth and development of Christianity in the "Global South." ... Read more

    $206.99 CAD

  • Montesinos' Legacy

    Defining and Defending Human Rights for Five Hundred Years

    by Gregory Baum, Eve Bratman, Chelsea Clark, Kevin Edmonds, Charlotte Hulme, Betcy Jose, Daniel Mandell, Deirdre Martinez, Arielle Pardes, Rishi Rattan, Pablo Adrián Arrocha Olabuenaga, Erin B. Corcoran, Lisette Acosta Corniel, Kevin W. Gray, Kenneth F. Maffitt, David T. Orique, Karen A. O'Rourke, Vincent J. Pastro, Father Ezra Sullivan, Fr. Ambrose Mary Little ...
    Montesinos’ Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos’ famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos today. Montesinos’ Legacy examines the origins of human rights concepts in the West, the rights of ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • To Heaven or to Hell

    Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario

    by David Thomas Orique, O.P. ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    This volume is the first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s important and provocative 1552 treatise commonly known as the Confesionario or Avisos y reglas. A text that generated controversy, like Las Casas’s more famous Brevísima relación, the Confesionario outlined a strikingly novel and arguably harsh use of confession for those administering the ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

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    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    by Angélica Jimena Afanador-Pujol ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Moors Dressed as Moors

    Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

    by Javier Irigoyen-Garcia ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque

    Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation

    Edited by Evonne Levy, Kenneth Mills ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish ... Read more

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  • The Black Christ of Esquipulas

    Religion and Identity in Guatemala

    by Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez ...
    On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New Mexico to Panama. Beyond being a site of popular devotion, however, the Black Christ of Esquipulas was ... Read more

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  • Mary, Mother and Warrior

    The Virgin in Spain and the Americas

    by Linda B. Hall ...
    A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain from the Moors and set about the conquest of the New World. Devotion to the Virgin still inspires ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD