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  • The Civilising Process of Portuguese Bullfighting

    Warriors, Courtiers, Professionals...and Barbarians?

    by Fernando Ampudia de Haro ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting. Its aim is to understand how bullfighting is historically configured according to the transformations undergone by the society in which it takes place. This means that bullfighting is approached in terms of its relationship with factors such as social structure ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    Updated Edition

    by Matthew Restall ...
    An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Capoeira

    The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

    by Matthias Röhrig Assunção ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, taught in Brazilian schools and practised by a range of social classes around the world. Some advocates now seek Olympic recognition for Capoeira. This apparent change in the meaning and purpose of Capeoira has led to conflicts between traditionalists, ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • The Companion to Hispanic Studies

    by Catherine Davies ...
    What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • 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

    $35.99 USD

  • Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

    Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, William E. French ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE“The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.”Reference Review“In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • The Conquest of Mexico

    Westernization of Indian Societies from the 16th to the 18th Century

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the Indian's memory, changes in their perception of reality, the spread of the European idea of the supernatural and the Spanish colonists' ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Catalonia: A New History

    by Andrew Dowling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Other Rebellion

    Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821

    by Eric Van Young ...
    Mexico’s movement toward independence from Spain was a key episode in the dissolution of the great Spanish Empire, and its accompanying armed conflict arguably the first great war of decolonization in the nineteenth century. This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, the struggle was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Domination without Dominance

    Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru

    by Gonzalo Lamana, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 and the moment, around 1550, when a functioning colonial regime ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • El Salvador

    Hidden Truths

    by Salvador Nunez ...
    Why El Salvador - Hidden Truths? In writing this book, I propose to explore these Salvadoran histories, pages hidden in dust which we have been denied by the economic power and its Governments since the time of the Spanish Invasion. We have systematically been denied the truth of this history, which is part of our being as the original peoples, which belongs to us, to our identity. We have been ... Read more

    $3.99 USD