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  • Los Llaneros

    The Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900

    Edited by Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt, John Beusterien ...
    For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings much-needed attention to the ethnic culture and history of the Llano, the vast grassland plains encompassing the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Water on the Llano Estacado

    Perspectives on the Ogallala Aquifer and the Southern High Plains

    Edited by John Beusterien, Britta Anderson ...
    Water on the Llano Estacado offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation into the precarious relationship between human civilization and the vital water resources of the Southern High Plains. Centered on the Llano Estacado—a vast, semiarid plateau spanning parts of Texas and New Mexico—this volume addresses the looming crisis of the Ogallala Aquifer’s depletion.By bridging the gap ... Read more

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  • Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain

    by John Beusterien ...
    Series series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
    Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture. In Transoceanic Animals as Spectacle in Early Modern Spain, Beusterien christens five previously unnamed animals, each of which was a protagonist in a spectacle: Abada, the rhinoceros; Hawa’i, the elephant; Fuleco, the armadillo; Jarama, the bull; and Maghreb, the lion. In presenting and analyzing their stories, Beusterien ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain

    by John Beusterien, Stephen West ...
    Series series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
    The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory. Sections on China include the first translations of texts about the cultural importance of elephants and ivory in the Song Dynasty (960–1279) and an examination of an ivory stave (huban 笏板), crafted from an Asian elephant tusk (Elephas maximus), ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Goodbye Eros

    Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes

    Edited by Ana Laguna, John Beusterien ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how Spanish letters recognized that old love paradigms, especially the crisis of the subject, presented an extraordinary opportunity for ... Read more

    $59.79 USD

  • Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez

    An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain

    by John Beusterien ...
    Series series
    The study of the creation of canine breeds in early modern Europe, especially Spain, illustrates the different constructs against which notions of human identity were forged. This book is the first comprehensive history of early modern Spanish dogs and it evaluates how two of Spain’s most celebrated and canonical cultural figures of this period, the artist Diego Velázquez and the author Miguel de ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

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    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • Fall of Civilizations

    Stories of Greatness and Decline

    by Paul Cooper ...
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  • New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

    The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

    Edited by John G. Douglass, William Graves ...
    Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ... Read more

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