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  • An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru

    by Titu Cusi Yupanqui ...
    Translated by Ralph Bauer ...
    Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty - to a Spanish missionary and transcribed by a mestizo assistant. The resulting hybrid document offers an Inca perspective on the Spanish conquest of Peru, filtered through ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora

    From the Americas to the World

    by John Ochoa, Monika Kaup, Antonio Barrenechea, Anna Brickhouse, Priscilla Archibald, Christopher Winks, Wendy Faris, Ralph Bauer, Silvia Spitta0, Stephen M. Hart1, Djelal Kadir2 ...
    Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin American literature and culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. The essays in this collection cover three critical fields: comparative hemispheric American literature, magical realism, and the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Ordinary People – Extraordinary God

    A Teaching Memoir

    by Ralph Bauer ...
    When God speaks, who listens? When God calls, who follows?With the Bible as his road map and the simple assurance that God answers prayer, Ralph asks us to join him vicariously and see how God can take everyday people, willing to say “Yes,” and accomplish extraordinary eternal things.This book is a collection of experiences Ralph had throughout his ministry as he continued to obey God’s call to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Translating Nature

    Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science

    Edited by Ralph Bauer, Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Jaime Marroquin Arredondo ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge—knowledge that was later translated by the British, reading from Spanish and Portuguese texts. Translations of natural and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Alchemy of Conquest

    Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World

    by Ralph Bauer ...
    Series series Writing the Early Americas
    The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period.As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900

    by Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes, Carla L. Peterson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Translating Nature

    Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science

    Edited by Jaime Marroquin Arredondo, Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Ralph Bauer ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge—knowledge that was later translated by the British, reading from Spanish and Portuguese texts. Translations of natural and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas

    Empires, Texts, Identities

    Edited by Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as “creoles” who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.Creole Subjects ... Read more

    $28.49 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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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City

    by Barbara E. Mundy ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350 ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE“The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.”Reference Review“In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian ... Read more

    $46.00 USD