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  • Law and Christianity in Latin America

    The Work of Great Jurists

    Edited by M.C. Mirow, Rafael Domingo ...
    Series series Law and Religion
    This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their countries and the region.The book is a significant contribution to our ability to understand the work and perspectives of jurists and their effect on legal development in Latin America. The individuals ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Latin American Constitutions

    The Constitution of Cádiz and its Legacy in Spanish America

    by M. C. Mirow ...
    Latin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the present, focusing on the Constitution of Cádiz, a foundational document in Latin American constitutionalism. Although drafted in Spain, it was applied in many regions of Latin America, and deputies from America formed a significant part of the drafting ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World

    The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812

    by Scott Eastman, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Gregorio Alonso, Roberto Breña, Jordana Dym, Marcela Echeverri, Brian Roger Hamnett, Rafael Marquese, M. C. Mirow0, Tâmis Parron1, David Sartorius2, Marcela Ternavasio3, Reuben Zahler4 ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and adopted the first liberal constitution in the Hispanic world, a document that became known as the Cádiz ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Latin American Law

    A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America

    by M. C. Mirow ...
    Private law touches every aspect of people's daily lives—landholding, inheritance, private property, marriage and family relations, contracts, employment, and business dealings—and the court records and legal documents produced under private law are a rich source of information for anyone researching social, political, economic, or environmental history. But to utilize these records fully, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Speaking of Spain

    The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World

    by Antonio Feros ...
    Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholic armies. And conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few in this period of flourishing Spanish power could define “Spain” concretely, or say with any confidence who were ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

    Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

    by Alcira Duenas ...
    Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial ... Read more

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  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Children of Facundo

    Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870)

    by Ariel de la Fuente ...
    In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture, and politics in the Argentine interior—where more than 50 percent of the population lived at the time—the book departs from the predominant Buenos ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Structure of Cuban History

    Meanings and Purpose of the Past

    by Louis A. Pérez Jr. ...
    In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country’s memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain’s defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Art of Being In-between

    Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca

    by Yanna Yannakakis ...
    In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her rich social and cultural history tells the story of the making of colonialism at the edge of empire ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

    Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, William E. French ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Tropical Versailles

    Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821

    by Kirsten Schultz ...
    Series series New World in the Atlantic World
    This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD