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Science and Empire in the Iberian Atlantic
Brian Jones, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Science and Empire in the Iberian Atlantic Introduction Traditionally, narratives of the development of modern science have excluded the histo...
Spanish Caribbean In The Colonial Period, The
David Wheat
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Spanish Caribbean in the Colonial Period Introduction From the late 15th to the late 19th centuries, Spain controlled extensive territories in...
Spanish Colonial Decorative Arts, 1500-1825
Jorge F. Rivas-Pérez
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Spanish Colonial Decorative Arts, 1500–1825 Introduction The origins of what we now denominate “Spanish colonial decorative arts” can be traced...
Spanish Florida
James G. Cusick
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Spanish Florida Introduction The term “Spanish Florida” is generally applied to the history of Florida from the time of Juan Ponce de León’s ex...
Textile Traditions of the Andes
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Textile Traditions of the Andes Introduction The Andean region boasts one of the world’s oldest, most continuous, and best-preserved textile tr...
Transculturation and Literature
Luis Duno-Gottberg
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Transculturation and Literature Introduction In 1940, Cuban ethnographer Fernando Ortiz coined the concept of “transculturation” for the sphere...
Trujillo, Rafael
Eric Paul Roorda
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Rafael Trujillo Introduction Rafael Trujillo (b. 24 October 1891–d. 30 May 1961) was the archetypal Latin American dictator. In control of the ...
United States Invasion of the Dominican Republic, 1961–1966, The
Piero Gleijeses
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
The United States Invasion of the Dominican Republic, 1961–1966 Introduction On 24 April 1965, young military officers rose in revolt in the Do...
Vargas, Getúlio
Joel Wolfe
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Getúlio Vargas Introduction Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (b. 1882–d. 1954) was perhaps the single most dominant figure in 20th-century Brazilian po...
Women in Colonial Latin American History
Susan M. Socolow
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Women in Colonial Latin American History Introduction The history of women in colonial Latin America has been a productive and exciting field ...
Women in Modern Latin American History
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Women in Modern Latin American History Introduction Sources for the study of the history of women in Latin America’s national period grew expon...
Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
Neil Harvey
Subject: Latin American Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas Introduction The Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas drew widespread attention to the plight of indigenous peoples i...
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