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  • Suggestions For The Cleaning And Management Of Percussion Arms

    de George Lovell ...
    A republication of the 1842 edition. An illustrated manual enabling the soldier to strip, clean and maintain his weapon. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Beauty that Hurts

    Life and Death in Guatemala

    de W. George Lovell ...
    When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of armed conflict, but the country’s troubles are far from over. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Conquest That Never Was

    Pedro de Alvarado and the Delusion of Peru

    de W. George Lovell ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvarado—best known as Cortés’s lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemala—sought to extend his fame and fortune by seizing Quito in the northern Inca Empire. Instead, his massive fleet and army met ruin in the high Andes, leaving Alvarado humiliated and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Conquest That Never Was

    Pedro de Alvarado and the Delusion of Peru

    de W. George Lovell ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    The Conquest That Never Was uncovers one of the most ambitious but disastrous campaigns of the early colonial period. Pedro de Alvarado—best known as Cortés’s lieutenant in Mexico and later as the conqueror of Guatemala—sought to extend his fame and fortune by seizing Quito in the northern Inca Empire. Instead, his massive fleet and army met ruin in the high Andes, leaving Alvarado humiliated and ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Faces of Resistance

    Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity

    de S. Ashley Kistler, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Allen J. Christenson, Stephanie J. Litka, Christopher H. Lutz, Judith M. Maxwell, Betsy Konefal, Abigail E Adams, Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez, Kevin Young0, David Carey Jr.1, W. George Lovell Jr.2 ...
    Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and powerIn the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Demography And Empire

    A Guide To The Population History Of Spanish Central America, 1500-1821

    de W. George Lovell ...
    Research on the Central American colonial experience-long overshadowed by the scholarly focus on Mexico and Peru-has begun to blossom, greatly expanding our knowledge of land and life in the region under Spanish rule. The first bibliography of its kind, Demography and Empire offers a comprehensive survey of recent literature in Spanish and i ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • La Patria del Criollo

    An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

    Traducido por W. George Lovell, Susan M. Neve ...
    de Severo Martínez Peláez ...
    This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition

    A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821

    de W. George Lovell ...
    Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country’s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark, the vibrant Maya culture they encountered was not obliterated and, though subjected to considerable duress from the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Death in the Snow

    Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru

    de W. George Lovell ...
    Series Libro 5 - McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series
    Pedro de Alvarado is best known as the right-hand man of Hernando Cortés in the conquest of Mexico (1519–21) and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala some years later. Far less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim to Quito, a wealthy domain in the far north of the Inca Empire. To this end, Alvarado constructed a massive fleet, which sailed south from Central America ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

    Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

    de W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer, William R. Swezey ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Strike Fear in the Land

    Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541

    de W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is long overdue, one that calls for us to reconsider events and circumstances in the light of not only ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    A Beauty That Hurts

    Life and Death in Guatemala

    de W. George Lovell ...
    Narrado por W. George Lovell ...

    Completo

    13 hora 29 minutos

    When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of peace after three decades of civil war, but the country’s troubles are far from over. W. George Lovell revisits Guatemala to grapple once again with the terror inflicted on its Maya peoples by a military-dominated ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook