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Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

A Legacy of Human Occupation

By: Peter W. Stahl,Fernando J. Astudillo,Ross W. Jamieson,Diego Quiroga,Florencio Delgado

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Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

A Legacy of Human Occupation

By: Peter W. Stahl,Fernando J. Astudillo,Ross W. Jamieson,Diego Quiroga,Florencio Delgado

The Galápagos Islands are one of the world’s premiere nature attractions, home to unique ecosystems widely thought to be untouched and pristine. Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands reveals that the archipelago is not as isolated as many imagine, examining how centuries of human occupation have transformed its landscape. This book shows that the island chain has been a part of global networks since its discovery in 1535 and traces the changes caused by human colonization. Central to this history is the sugar plantation Hacienda El Progreso on San Cristóbal Island. Here, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical evidence documents the introduction of exotic species and landscape transformations, and material evidence attests that inhabitants maintained connections to the outside world for consumer goods. Beyond illuminating the human history of the islands, the authors also look at the impact of visitors to Galápagos National Park today, raising questions about tourism’s role in biological conservation, preservation, and restoration. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson

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University Press of Florida

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0813057388

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In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

By: Daniel Kelley,Kevin Page,Diego Quiroga,Raul Salazar

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In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

By: Daniel Kelley,Kevin Page,Diego Quiroga,Raul Salazar

This book provides the first-ever overview of and guide to the geological setting and related features of the famous, volcanically active Galapagos Islands, as well as an in-depth analysis of the setting’s relationship to the region’s unique and iconic ecology, and its conservation. Further, it provides an introduction to human settlement and activity on the islands, including the transition from subsistence to a fishing economy and more recently tourism, all in the context of increasingly restrictive conservation regulations. Importantly, the book also explores the development of the concept and practice of sustainable development across the islands as a framework for future economic development, pursuing an approach that reconciles the needs of the resident population with conservation of this fragile environment. The book is intended for a broad readership, from those engaged in geological and ecological studies, college and university educators and conservation practitioners, to more general visitors to the islands.

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Springer

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3030059154

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From Ashes to Text

Andean Literature of Sexual Dissidence in the 20th Century

By: Diego Falconí Trávez

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From Ashes to Text

Andean Literature of Sexual Dissidence in the 20th Century

By: Diego Falconí Trávez

According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the flesh; it also charred practices, ways of life, and textualities, leaving an emptiness and a trauma that would mark the future literatures of the Andean region. This book cannot repair those pre-sodomite texts and bodies. It seeks instead to reconsider the value of the ash, a metaphor that allows for a critical and contradictory reading of sexual dissidences in the Andean region in the twentieth century, beyond both multiculturalism and the wake of a globalized LGBTI movement. Through a comparative analysis, and drawing on theoretical perspectives such as anticoloniality, feminisms, and cuir (rather than queer) theories, the book aims to understand the value of a series of complex texts in which dissident subjectivities, practices, and desires help to broaden the understanding of the Andean. Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize, the book was praised by the jury for the paradoxical and provocative way that it struggles against the abyss of past destruction and reflects on the contribution of the Global South to the often uniformist thinking around the body and its intersections.

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207

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509550178

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9781509550173

Ethnicity and Violence

The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism

By: Diego Muro

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Ethnicity and Violence

The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism

By: Diego Muro

This book provides a genealogy of radical Basque nationalism and the means by which this complex, often violent, political movement has reinforced Basque identity. Radical nationalists are mobilized by a shared frame of reference where ethnicity and violence are intertwined in a nostalgic recreation of a golden age and a quasi-religious imperative to restore that distant past. Muro critically examines the origins of the ethno-nationalist conflict and provides a comprehensive examination of Euskadi Ta Askatusana’s (ETA) violent campaign. The book analyzes the interplay of ethnicity and violence and stresses the role of inherited myths, memories, and cultural symbols to explain the ability of radical Basque nationalism to endure.

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285

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Routledge

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1134167687

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9781134167685

The First Asians in the Americas

A Transpacific History

By: Diego Javier Luis

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The First Asians in the Americas

A Transpacific History

By: Diego Javier Luis

The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas. Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain’s Asian and American colonies. Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, these Spanish trading ships also facilitated the earliest migrations and displacements of Asian peoples to the Americas. Hailing from Gujarat, Nagasaki, and many places in between, both free and enslaved Asians boarded the galleons and made the treacherous transpacific journey each year. Once in Mexico, they became “chinos” within the New Spanish caste system. Diego Javier Luis chronicles this first sustained wave of Asian mobility to the early Americas. Uncovering how and why Asian peoples crossed the Pacific, he sheds new light on the daily lives of those who disembarked at Acapulco. There, the term “chino” officially racialized diverse ethnolinguistic populations into a single caste, vulnerable to New Spanish policies of colonial control. Yet Asians resisted these strictures, often by forging new connections across ethnic groups. Social adaptation and cultural convergence, Luis argues, defined Asian experiences in the Spanish Americas from the colonial invasions of the sixteenth century to the first cries for Mexican independence in the nineteenth. The First Asians in the Americas speaks to an important era in the construction of race, vividly unfolding what it meant to be “chino” in the early modern Spanish empire. In so doing, it demonstrates the significance of colonial Latin America to Asian diasporic history and reveals the fundamental role of transpacific connections to the development of colonial societies in the Americas.

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369

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Harvard University Press

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0674294947

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9780674294943

Apomixis in Angiosperms

Mechanisms, Occurrences, and Biotechnology

By: Diego Hojsgaard,Thammineni Pullaiah

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Apomixis in Angiosperms

Mechanisms, Occurrences, and Biotechnology

By: Diego Hojsgaard,Thammineni Pullaiah

Apomixis is a difficult-to-analyse trait with a complex molecular basis and a substantive effect on the biology of a species. Thus, apomixis is an interesting characteristic for researchers and students working in different fields of plant science and agriculture, and technological advances are enabling and making apomixis studies more common. Apomixis in Angiosperms: Mechanisms, Occurrences, and Biotechnology provides a systematic introduction to the mechanisms and developmental types of apomixis along with an overview of alternative methodologies for identifying apomixis and a detailed reassessment of the occurrences of apomictic species among angiosperm families. Optional methods are illustrated with examples of all types of apomixis and biological levels of analysis, i.e. cells, ovules, seeds and offspring. Data on apomictic species are collected in tables along with information on ploidy, type of apomixis and references. Occurrences of apomixis are briefly discussed in phylogenetic and evolutionary contexts. An outline of the molecular basis of apomixis in plants is presented, together with prospects and challenges that remain for its biotechnological exploitation. This book: Provides a systematic overview of the mechanisms of apomixis, developmental types and methodology for apomixis research. Reassesses apomixis at the species level in angiosperm families. Contains tables summarizing relevant information on apomixis. Analyses occurrences of apomixis in phylogenetic and evolutionary contexts. Outlines the molecular basis and biotechnological perspective of apomixis breeding. This book presents an accessible overview of apomixis research and a curated dataset of apomictic species. It serves as a reference book for students, researchers and citizen scientists interested in apomixis, as well as researchers, business innovators and entrepreneurs pursuing apomixis breeding. It can also be used as a textbook in graduate courses on plant reproduction.

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498

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CRC Press

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1000624013

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9781000624014

The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System

A Handbook for Victims and Their Advocates

By: Diego Rodríguez Pinzón,Claudia Martin

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The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System

A Handbook for Victims and Their Advocates

By: Diego Rodríguez Pinzón,Claudia Martin

This Handbook presents...information about the inter-American system generally and, in particular, as it relates to the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."--

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279

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Boris Wijkstrom

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2884771158

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9782884771153

The Ailing City

Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950

By: Diego Armus

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The Ailing City

Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870–1950

By: Diego Armus

DIVThe first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in Latin America demonstrates that in addition to being a biological phenomenon disease is also a social construction effected by rhetoric, politics, and the daily life of its victims./div

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Duke University Press

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0822350122

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9780822350125

The Color of Citizenship

Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought

By: Diego A. von Vacano

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The Color of Citizenship

Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought

By: Diego A. von Vacano

Looking to the way that race has been conceived through the tradition of Latin American political thought, The Color of Citizenship examines the centrality of race in the making of modern citizenship. It posits race as synthetic, dynamic, and fluid - a concept that will have methodological, historical, and normative value for understanding race in other diverse societies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199368880

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Blood on the Boulders

The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

By: Diego de Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks

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Blood on the Boulders

The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

By: Diego de Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks

Having retaken Santa Fe by force of arms late in 1693, Diego de Vargas faces unrelenting challenges, waging active warfare against defiant Pueblo Indian resisters while maintaining peace with Pueblo allies; providing homes, food, and supplies for 1,500 unsure colonists; and bidding unceasingly for greater support from viceregal authorities in Mexico City. At the head of combined units of Spanish and Pueblo fighting men, the governor in 1694 leads repeated assaults on castle-like fortified sites. Through combat, prisoner exchange, and negotiation, he reestablishes the kingdom. Franciscans reopen some of the missions. Vargas founds the villa of Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Pueblos north and west of Santa Fe rebel again in 1696; wearily, Vargas reports more blood on the boulders. Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico's formative era.

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UNM Press

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0826318673

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9780826318671

National Public Investment Systems in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

By: Edgar Ortegón,Diego Dorado,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

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National Public Investment Systems in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

By: Edgar Ortegón,Diego Dorado,United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

This document synthesizes the principal characteristics of National Public Investment Systems in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago as a representative picture of the situation in the entire Caribbean sub region.

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Santiago, Chile : United Nations

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9211215811

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9789211215816

Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

A Legacy of Human Occupation

By: Peter W. Stahl,Fernando J. Astudillo,Ross W. Jamieson,Diego Quiroga,Florencio Delgado

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Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

A Legacy of Human Occupation

By: Peter W. Stahl,Fernando J. Astudillo,Ross W. Jamieson,Diego Quiroga,Florencio Delgado

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University Press of Florida

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In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

By: Daniel Kelley,Kevin Page,Diego Quiroga,Raul Salazar

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In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

By: Daniel Kelley,Kevin Page,Diego Quiroga,Raul Salazar

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Book's by Diego Quiroga

Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

From Ashes to Text

From Ashes to Text

Ethnicity and Violence

Ethnicity and Violence

The First Asians in the Americas

The First Asians in the Americas

Apomixis in Angiosperms

Apomixis in Angiosperms

The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System

The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the Inter-American Human Rights System

The Ailing City

The Ailing City

The Color of Citizenship

The Color of Citizenship

Blood on the Boulders

Blood on the Boulders

National Public Investment Systems in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

National Public Investment Systems in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands

In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

In the Footsteps of Darwin: Geoheritage, Geotourism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands

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