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La Patria del Criollo
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 …
Look Before You Leap, Or Wooings And Weddings
This Is Not Civil Rights
Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As …
The Science of Modern Wood Finishing; a Digest of Modern Materials and Methods for Industrial Finishers and Home Craftsmen ..
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala
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 …
A Material World
In this volume, scholars from various disciplines show how physical objects can expand our comprehension of how people lived, worked, and thought during the colonial and early …
Demography and Empire
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 …
Strange Lands and Different Peoples
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 …
Death in the Snow
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 …
Union by Law
Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they …
An Introduction To The Greek Of The New Testament (1878)
Legislative Deferrals
Why do unelected federal judges have so much power to make policy in the United States? Why were federal judges able to thwart apparent legislative victories won by labor …