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Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

By: Margaret Chowning

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Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

By: Margaret Chowning

Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long nineteenth century. This traditional view, writes Margaret Chowning, cannot account for the continued power of the Catholic Church in Mexico, which has withstood extensive and sustained political opposition for over a century. How, then, must the scholarly consensus change to better reflect Mexico's history? In this book, Chowning shows that the church repeatedly emerged as a political player, even when liberals won elections, primarily because of the overlooked importance of women in politics. Catholic women kept the church alive through the wars of independence and made it into the political force it continues to be in present-day Mexico. Using archival sources from ten Mexican states, the book shows how women, who were denied the vote and expected to stay out of the political sphere, nevertheless forged their own form of citizenship through the church. After Mexico gained its independence in 1821, women self-consciously developed new lay associations and assumed leadership roles within them. These new associations not only kept Catholicism vibrant, they also pushed women into public sphere. Methodologically, this book shows the value of exploring gender in political and religious history and reveals the equal importance of informal political power to more formal activities like voting"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691264570

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Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

Michoacán from the Late Colony to the Revolution

By: Margaret Chowning

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Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

Michoacán from the Late Colony to the Revolution

By: Margaret Chowning

Highly original work places the growth of an important state in the national and, at the same time, familial environment. Argues that the Reform must be seen in the context of a general economic upturn begun in the 1840s"--Handbook of Latin American Stud

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Stanford University Press

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0804734283

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Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

By: Margaret Chowning

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Rebellious Nuns

The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863

By: Margaret Chowning

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Rebellious Nuns

The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863

By: Margaret Chowning

Nuns are hardly associated with rebellion and turmoil. However, convents have often been the scenes of conflict and the author has discovered documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that destroyed a convent in Mexico. Chowning highlights the complicated dynamics of having committed your life to God and community.

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Oxford University Press

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0195182219

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All About Music

The Complete Ontology: Realities, Semiotics, Communication, and Embodiment

By: Guerino Mazzola,Maria Mannone,Yan Pang,Margaret O'Brien,Nathan Torunsky

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All About Music

The Complete Ontology: Realities, Semiotics, Communication, and Embodiment

By: Guerino Mazzola,Maria Mannone,Yan Pang,Margaret O'Brien,Nathan Torunsky

This book explains music’s comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers. The book unfolds in a basic discourse in everyday language that is accessible to everybody who wants to understand what this topic is about. Musical ontology is delayed in its fundamental dimensions: its realities, its meaningful communication, and its embodied utterance from musical creators to an interested audience. The authors' approach is applicable to every musical genre and is scientific, the book is suitable for non-musicians and non-scientists alike.

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Springer

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3319473344

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Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

Michoacán from the Late Colony to the Revolution

By: Margaret Chowning

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Michoacán from the Late Colony to the Revolution

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From Fingers to Digits

An Artificial Aesthetic

By: Margaret A. Boden,Ernest A. Edmonds

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From Fingers to Digits

An Artificial Aesthetic

By: Margaret A. Boden,Ernest A. Edmonds

Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence. In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, and Ernest Edmonds, a pioneering and internationally recognized computer artist, grapple with key questions about the aesthetics of computer art. Other modern technologies—photography and film—have been accepted by critics as ways of doing art. Does the use of computers compromise computer art's aesthetic credentials in ways that the use of cameras does not? Is writing a computer program equivalent to painting with a brush? Essays by Boden identify types of computer art, describe the study of creativity in AI, and explore links between computer art and traditional views in philosophical aesthetics. Essays by Edmonds offer a practitioner's perspective, considering, among other things, how the experience of creating computer art compares to that of traditional art making. Finally, the book presents interviews in which contemporary computer artists offer a wide range of comments on the issues raised in Boden's and Edmonds's essays.

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MIT Press

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0262039621

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We Face the Dawn

Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow

By: Margaret Edds

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We Face the Dawn

Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow

By: Margaret Edds

The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story of how the South's most significant grassroots legal team challenged the barriers of racial segregation in mid-century America. Virginians Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson initiated and argued one of the five cases that combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education, but their influence extends far beyond that momentous ruling. They were part of a small brotherhood, headed by social-justice pioneer Thurgood Marshall and united largely through the Howard Law School, who conceived and executed the NAACP’s assault on racial segregation in education, transportation, housing, and voting. Hill and Robinson’s work served as a model for southern states and an essential underpinning for Brown. When the Virginia General Assembly retaliated with laws designed to disbar the two lawyers and discredit the NAACP, they defiantly carried the fight to the United States Supreme Court and won. At a time when numerous schools have resegregated and the prospects of many minority children appear bleak, Hill and Robinson’s remarkably effective campaign against various forms of racial segregation can inspire a new generation to embrace educational opportunity as the birthright of every American child.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813940451

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Electronic Music

By: Nicholas Collins,Margaret Schedel,Scott Wilson

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Electronic Music

By: Nicholas Collins,Margaret Schedel,Scott Wilson

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107010934

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Lectio Matters

Before the Burning Bush

By: Mary Margaret Funk

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Lectio Matters

Before the Burning Bush

By: Mary Margaret Funk

Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature. InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.

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Liturgical Press

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0814635059

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9780814635056

Renouncing Violence

By: Mary Margaret Funk

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Renouncing Violence

By: Mary Margaret Funk

Written from her deep experience in the monastic tradition, Sister Mary Margaret Funk shows us that, with faith and our given vocations, we are more than strong enough to resist and renounce the violence in the world around us. This book offers, both for personal use and for the broader community, a teaching for our troubled times, a teaching that empowers the reader to renounce violence in all its bold and subtle forms. As a concrete example, Funk retrieves the practice and symbolism of using holy water to bless, cleanse, and free us from violence wherever it is emerging—in our personal lives and in our world. This practice has thrived in the monastic tradition and has a language with a voice.

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Liturgical Press

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081468484X

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To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

By: Margaret Caffrey,Patricia Francis

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To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

By: Margaret Caffrey,Patricia Francis

Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead's relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends, and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships. In these letters -- drawn primarily from her papers at the Library of Congress -- Mead ruminates on family, friendships, sexuality, marriage, children, and career. In midlife, at a low point, she wrote to a friend, "What I seem to need most is close, aware human relationships, which somehow reinstate my sense of myself, as no longer living 'in the season of the narrow heart." This collection is structured around these relationships, which were so integral to Mead's perspective on life. With a foreword by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a renowned author and anthropologist in her own right, this volume of letters from Mead to those who shared her life and work offers new insight into a rich and deeply complex mind.

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Basic Books

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078673602X

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9780786736027

Virginia's Historic Courthouses

By: Margaret T. Peters

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Virginia's Historic Courthouses

By: Margaret T. Peters

They examine historic structures ranging from the Essex County courthouse (1729) and the King William County courthouse, built ca. 1725 and one of the oldest public buildings in continuous use in the nation, to the newer historic courthouses such as Richmond's massive Supreme Court/State Library Building, dedicated in 1941.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813916046

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9780813916040

The First Ladies

By: Margaret Brown Klapthor

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The First Ladies

By: Margaret Brown Klapthor

Brief biographies and portraits of wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton.

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White House Historical Association

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0912308591

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9780912308593

Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

The book contains a full bibliography, missing only the last few years, and an introduction by Mead on her writings.

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Walter de Gruyter

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9027930260

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9789027930262

Family Vista

The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich

By: Margaret Chanler Aldrich

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Family Vista

The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich

By: Margaret Chanler Aldrich

First published in 1958, these are the memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich, a descendant of the prominent Astor family. A nurse for the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, and later the Philippine-American War, Aldrich joined the woman’s suffrage movement and became notable as one of Carrie Chapman Catt’s capable officials in the campaign for suffrage in New York State. A fascinating autobiography!

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178912767X

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Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

Rebellious Nuns

Rebellious Nuns

All About Music

All About Music

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico

From Fingers to Digits

From Fingers to Digits

We Face the Dawn

We Face the Dawn

Electronic Music

Electronic Music

Lectio Matters

Lectio Matters

Renouncing Violence

Renouncing Violence

To Cherish the Life of the World

To Cherish the Life of the World

Virginia's Historic Courthouses

Virginia's Historic Courthouses

The First Ladies

The First Ladies

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Family Vista

Family Vista

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