Hakutulokset: Sarja Dialogos Series
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Malintzin's Choices
Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. 'Malintzin', at least, was what …
Independence in Spanish America
Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the Second Dialogos Edition; Preface to the First Dialogos Edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Life Span of Some Leaders of …
Aftershocks
Earthquakes have helped shape the history of many Latin American nations. The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives …
The Faces of Honor
A contemporary of Columbus noted "those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives." This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, …
From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil
Bahia is a province of Brazil on its northeastern coast and is the size of the country of France. From the sixteenth century through the 1850s, at least 1.2 million African slaves …
Lives of the Bigamists
This fascinating examination of bigamy in colonial Mexico reveals for the first time the lives, routines, and networks of ordinary people. The author, drawing from his close …
Black Mexico
The essays in this collection build upon a series of conversations and papers that resulted from 'New Directions in North American Scholarship on Afro-Mexico', a symposium …
The Conquest of the Desert
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's "Golden Age" …
True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico
Crime has played a complicated role in the history of human social relations. Public narratives about murders, insanity, kidnappings, assassinations, and infanticide attempt to …
Murder in Mérida, 1792
During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Mérida, Yucatan, and murdered the province’s top royal official, don Lucas …
Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico
In this new and masterful synthesis, Wasserman shows the link between ordinary men and women preoccupied with the demands of feeding, clothing, and providing shelter and the elites …
Tangled Destinies
An imbalance of power and a sense of unresolved tension have plagued relations between the United States and Latin America. This book offers a synthesis of that relationship by …