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“bianca premo”

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  • Sexuality and Slavery

    Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

    by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington, Jim Downs, Thomas A. Foster, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jessica Millward, Bianca Premo, Brenda Stevenson ...
    Series series
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Children of the Father King

    Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima

    by Bianca Premo ...
    In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives within the framework of law and intellectual history from 1650 to 1820, Premo brings to light the colonial politics of childhood and challenges readers to view patriarchy as a system of power ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Enlightenment on Trial

    Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire

    by Bianca Premo ...
    This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

    by Matthew Restall ...
    Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real Education

    Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

    by Charles Murray ...
    With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bully

    An Action Plan for Teachers, Parents, and Communities to Combat the Bullying Crisis

    by Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen ...
    A companion book to the acclaimed documentary film that inspired a national conversation, BULLY is packed with information and resources for teachers, parents, and anyone who cares about the more than 13 million children who will be bullied in the United States this year. From commentary about life after BULLY by the filmmakers and the families in the film, to the story of how Katy Butler’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • PERE BOADAS

    Pioneer of the anarcho-syndicalist action groups in 1920s Barcelona

    by Josep A Carreras ...
    Boadas i Rivas was born in Barcelona in 1894 and died in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. Together with Medir Mart and Pere Vandellós, he was one of the leaders of the first anarcho-syndicalist action group organised in Catalonia from late 1917 onwards, before the six-year period of “pistolerismo” erupted in Barcelona. He can, therefore, be regarded as the pioneer of those Barcelona anarcho ... Read more

    $2.73 USD

  • Memoirs and Reflections

    by Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Transnational Revolutionaries

    The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866

    by David Doolin ...
    Series Book 71 - Reimagining Ireland
    The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration of the details behind the Fenian invasion, asking why Irish immigrants were motivated to shape ... Read more

    $76.09 USD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Making Mondragón

    The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex

    by William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte ...
    Series series Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
    This well-researched study should be read by anyone with an interest in worker cooperatives, community economic development, and work redesign programs.― Contemporary SociologySince its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD