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Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo

From Plantations to the Slums

By: Rafael Ocasio

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Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo

From Plantations to the Slums

By: Rafael Ocasio

Costumbrismo, which refers to depictions of life in Latin America during the nineteenth century, introduced some of the earliest black themes in Cuban literature. Rafael Ocasio delves into this literature to offer up a new perspective on the development of Cuban identity, as influenced by black culture and religion, during the sugar cane boom. Comments about the slave trade and the treatment of slaves were often censored in Cuban publications; nevertheless white Costumbrista writers reported on a vast catalogue of stereotypes, religious beliefs, and musical folklore, and on rich African traditions in major Cuban cities. Exploring rare and seldom discussed nineteenth-century texts, Ocasio offers insight into the nuances of black representation in Costumbrismo while analyzing authors such as Suárez y Romero, an abolitionist who wrote from the perspective of a plantation owner. Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo expands the idea of what texts constitute Costumbrismo and debunks the traditional notion that this writing reveals little about the Afro-Cuban experience. The result is a novel examination of how white writers' representations of black culture heavily inform our current understanding of nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban culture and national identity.

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University Press of Florida

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0813043670

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Ovnis

By: Rafael Sanchez Navarro

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Ovnis

By: Rafael Sanchez Navarro

Este libro es el resultado de mas de dos décadas de profunda investigación sobre el misterio que encierran esas naves no identificadas llamadas OVNIS que han surcado los cielos en todas partes del mundo, estando presentes desde tiempo inmemorial en la historia de la humanidad. Testimonios y experiencias con seres de otros planetas, muchas de ellas trágicas y aterradoras, vividas por personas que han confiado en la seriedad, profesionalismo y discreción del autor, las comparten aquí por primera vez sin importarles ser catalogados como personas fantasiosas o con algún mal mental. Roswell, Nuevo México, La Zona del Silencio, Chichen-Itzá, el Área 51 en Nevada, El Pinacate Zona Volcánica entre Arizona y Sonora, son algunos de los muchos lugares que el autor, Miembro Activo y Field Investigator de MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) a visitado para obtener información de primera mano... Rafael Sanchez Navarro es el autor de una teoría expuesta y explicada en forma sencilla aquí en este libro, teoría que esta siendo muy bien acogida en el mundo científico. El Embudo de la Energía Pulsante, teoría que de comprobarse, explicaría el misterio que rodea La Zona del Silencio, ubicada al Norte de México. En este trabajo posiblemente encuentres las respuestas a todo aquello que quizás alguna vez te dijeron que era solo "fantasía".

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1617647047

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Spanish for the IB MYP 1-3 Phases 1-2

By Concept

By: J. Rafael Angel

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Spanish for the IB MYP 1-3 Phases 1-2

By Concept

By: J. Rafael Angel

A concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Spanish teaching and learning. - Approaches each chapter with statements of inquiry framed by key and related concepts, set in a global context - Supports every aspect of assessment using tasks designed by an experienced MYP educator - Differentiates and extends learning with research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities - Applies global contexts in meaningful ways to offer an MYP Spanish programme with an internationally-minded perspective

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Hodder Education

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1471881113

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The Puerto Rico Constitution

By: Rafael Cox-Alomar

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The Puerto Rico Constitution

By: Rafael Cox-Alomar

The only book of its kind in the English language, this is the first volume of the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States to explore the constitution of a U.S. territory: Puerto Rico. The first half of the volume unearths the island's constitutional history from the days of Spanish colonization in the 16th century, through to Congress' enactment in 2016 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). Professor Cox Alomar offers a careful analysis of the most recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court implicating Puerto Rico, Sánchez Valle (2016), Franklin Trust (2016), Aurelius (2020) and Vaello Madero (2022). The second half of this volume provides an in-depth analysis of each of the provisions incorporated by the Puerto Rican framers to the 1952 Constitution, still in full force today. Commentary is provided on each of these constitutional provisions in light of the most recent decisions of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court. The volume examines the interaction between the Puerto Rico Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the political branches in Washington. This book is a timely companion in one of the more complex, yet transformative periods in Puerto Rico's constitutional life.

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Oxford University Press

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0190461268

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Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir

Song and Countersong

By: Rafael Bernabe

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Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir

Song and Countersong

By: Rafael Bernabe

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban writer and revolutionary José Martí; Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James, and Dominican poet Pedro Mir.

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BRILL

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9004462740

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Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century

By: Rafael Torres Sánchez

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Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century

By: Rafael Torres Sánchez

Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these entrepreneurs jarred with the received view of a rationally growing and modernising state. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The state was not able to enforce a top-down military supply policy; at the same time it benefited from the entrepreneurs' collaboration and their shared mercantilist ambitions. The entrepreneurs' mobilisation of military supplies was crucial for extending state authority and helped to knit together national and colonial markets. But this fluid state-entrepreneur relationship gradually became shrouded in privileges and monopolies, not so much ideology driven or imposed by the entrepreneurs but rather as an arrangement exploited by the state to boost its control over them, whittling down middlemen and ensuring the solvency and creditworthiness of the chosen few. This arrangement spiralled into a risky inter-dependence and cramped entrepreneurial competition. Rafael Torres Sánchez furnishes new insights into the role of military entrepreneurs in debates about warfare and state construction.

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Oxford University Press

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019108672X

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Plant Physiological Ecology

By: Hans Lambers,Rafael S. Oliveira

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Plant Physiological Ecology

By: Hans Lambers,Rafael S. Oliveira

Growth, reproduction, and geographical distribution of plants are profoundly influenced by their physiological ecology: the interaction with the surrounding physical, chemical, and biological environments. This textbook highlights mechanisms that underlie plant physiological ecology at the levels of physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology. At the same time, the integrative power of physiological ecology is well suited to assess the costs, benefits, and consequences of modifying plants for human needs and to evaluate the role of plants in natural and managed ecosystems. Plant Physiological Ecology, Third Edition is significantly updated, with many full color illustrations, and begins with the primary processes of carbon metabolism and transport, plant water relations, and energy balance. After considering individual leaves and whole plants, these physiological processes are then scaled up to the level of the canopy. Subsequent chapters discuss mineral nutrition and the ways in which plants cope with nutrient‐deficient or toxic soils. The book then looks at patterns of growth and allocation, life‐history traits, and interactions between plants and other organisms. Later chapters deal with traits that affect decomposition of plant material and with the consequences of plant physiological ecology at ecosystem and global levels. Plant Physiological Ecology, Third Edition features several boxed entries that extend the discussions of selected issues, a glossary, and numerous references to the primary and review literature. This significant new text is suitable for use in plant ecology courses, as well as classes ranging from plant physiology to plant molecular biology.

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Springer Nature

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3030296393

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First International Symposium On Current Issues of Drug Abuse Testing

By: Jordi Segura,Rafael de la Torre

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First International Symposium On Current Issues of Drug Abuse Testing

By: Jordi Segura,Rafael de la Torre

This book elaborates on the topics covered by top experts in the field of drug testing at an international symposium held in March, 1990. The book is an excellent reference for all professionals involved in the set up, performance and interpretation of results for drug testing programs using biological fluids (especially urine). U.S. and European perspectives are presented in relation to workplace testing. Organizational aspects for reliability of drug testing include topics ranging from sample collection, chain of custody, and laboratory strategies to legal and regulatory aspects. Critical reviews of analytical methodology involve descriptions and critical issues for the major presumptive and confirmatory techniques, including immunological and gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric methodologies. The book's interpretation of results takes into account the metabolic, pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and clinical aspects. The final chapters of the book include topics addressing aspects for potential international harmonization.

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CRC Press

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084934283X

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The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting

By: Rafael Japón

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The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting

By: Rafael Japón

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters. Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the Sevillian school, including Francisco Pacheco, Diego Velázquez, Alonso Cano and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, perceived and were influenced by Italian painting. Through many examples, it is shown how the presence in Andalusia of various works and copies of works by artists such as Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Guido Reni inspired famous compositions by these Spanish artists. In addition, the book delves into the historical, political and social context of this period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, and Italian and Spanish history.

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Routledge

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1000543714

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El Fin Del Mundo Maya Y la Ex-RepÚBlica de YucatÁN

By: Rafael Yates Sosa

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El Fin Del Mundo Maya Y la Ex-RepÚBlica de YucatÁN

By: Rafael Yates Sosa

Actualmente, hay varias de estas calaveras exhibiéndose en las vitrinas de distintos museos del mundo, y ya han sido descubiertas por lo menos ocho de las trece. Están en distintas manos y cada una de ellas ha sido bautizada con un nombre propio, según la especialista en la materia, Ellie Crystal. El misterio de las calaveras es enriquecido también por una leyenda que se remontaría a los mayas.

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1463320396

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Un viaje de vida y vuelta

By: Rafael Turrón

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Un viaje de vida y vuelta

By: Rafael Turrón

¿Pasillo, celda o ventanilla? Tras conocer una noticia que hace tambalear tanto su pasado como el presente, pues no tiene futuro, Francisco decide narrar desde su celda la maravillosa experiencia que le aportó Taiwán. Viajes que le hicieron descubrir un mundo que, después, mientras combatía en la guerra, intentó olvidar. Hoy quiere recordar y luchar con palabras para explicar quién es y quién no quiso ser, pero fue.

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Caligrama

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8417505539

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Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore

Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico

By: Rafael Ocasio

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Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore

Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico

By: Rafael Ocasio

Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico explores the historic research trip taken to Puerto Rico in 1915. As a component of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Boas intended to perform field research in the areas of anthropology and ethnography while other scientists explored the island’s natural resources. A young anthropologist working under Boas, John Alden Mason, rescued hundreds of oral folklore samples, ranging from popular songs, poetry, conundrums, sayings, and, most particularly, folktales while documenting native Puerto Rican cultural practices. Through his extensive excursions, Mason came in touch with the rural lives of Puerto Rican peasants, the jíbaros, who served as both his cultural informants and writers of the folklore samples. These stories, many of which are still part of the island’s literary traditions and collected in a bilingual companion volume by Rafael Ocasio, reflect a strong Puerto Rican identity coalescing in the face of the U.S. political intervention on the island. A fascinating slice of Puerto Rican history and culture sure to delight any reader!

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Rutgers University Press

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1978810229

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Puerto Rico in the American Century

A History since 1898

By: César J. Ayala,Rafael Bernabe

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Puerto Rico in the American Century

A History since 1898

By: César J. Ayala,Rafael Bernabe

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct people but are part of the American political system; they have U.S. citizenship but are not represented in the U.S. Congress; and they live on land that is neither independent nor part of the United States. Highlighting both well-known and forgotten figures from Puerto Rican history, Ayala and Bernabe discuss a wide range of topics, including literary and cultural debates and social and labor struggles that previous histories have neglected. Although the island's political economy remains dependent on the United States, the authors also discuss Puerto Rico's situation in light of world economies. Ayala and Bernabe argue that the inability of Puerto Rico to shake its colonial legacy reveals the limits of free-market capitalism, a break from which would require a renewal of the long tradition of labor and social activism in Puerto Rico in connection with similar currents in the United States.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895539

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Sarmacia

-Serie Ventus-

By: Rafael Gallego Carrasco

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Sarmacia

-Serie Ventus-

By: Rafael Gallego Carrasco

En la diferencia reside el parecido. El equipo Ventus parece haber superado las exigentes pruebas Hastati, aunque sus componentes no dispondrán de tiempo para digerir lo, pues esta tan solo es la antesala de todos sus problemas. Separados y sin recursos, los jóvenes se verán obligados a hacerfrente a las hostilidades de diferentes situaciones. La Fosa, Sarmacia y Estuario son, en principio, lugares muy distintos que comparten un único denominador común: allí no se vive, se sobrevive.

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Caligrama

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8417587225

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Making Los Angeles Home

The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

By: Rafael Alarcon,Luis Escala-Rabadan,Olga Odgers

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Making Los Angeles Home

The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

By: Rafael Alarcon,Luis Escala-Rabadan,Olga Odgers

Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural, and political) and show that there is no single path for its achievement, but instead an array of strategies that yield different results. However, their analysis also shows that immigrants' successful integration essentially depends upon their legal status and long residence in the region. The book shows that, despite this finding, immigrants nevertheless decide to settle in Los Angeles, the place where they have made their homes.

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Univ of California Press

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0520284860

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, And The Global Economy

By: Rafael Di Tella,Huw R Pill,Ingrid Vogel

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, And The Global Economy

By: Rafael Di Tella,Huw R Pill,Ingrid Vogel

All managers face a business environment where international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is a crucial aspect in making informed managerial decisions. Adverse macroeconomic phenomena can have a catastrophic impact on firm performance — witness the strong companies destroyed by the Mexican tequila crisis. Yet, at the same time, such episodes also create business opportunities — and not just for the hedge funds and speculators that profit from them. Managers that have and use a coherent framework for analyzing these phenomena will enjoy a competitive advantage.This book presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course “Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy.” The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for managing the risks that globalization entails.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813101970

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9789813101975

Slavery and Politics

Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850

By: Márcia Regina Berbel,Rafael de Bivar Marquese,Tâmis Parron

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Slavery and Politics

Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850

By: Márcia Regina Berbel,Rafael de Bivar Marquese,Tâmis Parron

The politics of slavery and slave trade in nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil is the subject of this acclaimed study, first published in Brazil in 2010 and now available for the first time in English. Cubans and Brazilians were geographically separate from each other, but they faced common global challenges that unified the way they re-created their slave systems between 1790 and 1850 on a basis completely departed from centuries-old colonial slavery. Here the authors examine the early arguments and strategies in favor of slavery and the slave trade and show how they were affected by the expansion of the global market for tropical goods, the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the collapse of Iberian monarchies, British abolitionism, and the international pressure opposing the transatlantic slave trade. This comprehensive survey contributes to the comparative history of slavery, placing the subject in a global context rather than simply comparing the two societies as isolated units.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826356486

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9780826356482

Salsa

A Taste of Hispanic Culture

By: Rafael Falcón

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Salsa

A Taste of Hispanic Culture

By: Rafael Falcón

The daily routines, habits, beliefs, and values of the Hispanic culture that create unique human interactions in this society are revealed in this book. The book consists of 26 chapters relating to different themes that collectively provide an understanding of cultural responses. An anecdote is placed at the beginning of each chapter to assist the reader in understanding the more pedagogical information that follows. Reflected in this book is the reality that the Hispanic world covers a vast geographical area, and as such, is a mosaic of ethnic, religious, and historical backgrounds. Examples of diversity—the salsa, the taste of this culture—that makes this culture so unique are illustrated throughout the text. This book has been written with a wide range of readers in mind and will be of use to students on the secondary as well as undergraduate levels, teachers, social workers, and travelers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031302541X

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Dancing Jacobins

A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism

By: Rafael Sánchez

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Dancing Jacobins

A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism

By: Rafael Sánchez

Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic projection of postcolonial elites fearful of the popular sectors but also as a symptom of a stubborn historical predicament: the cyclical insistence with which the subaltern populations menacingly return to the nation’s public spaces in the form of crowds. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, and drawing on a rich theoretical literature including authors like Derrida, Foucault, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Lyotard, Laclau, Taussig, and others, Dancing Jacobins is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist “monumental governmentality” that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Informed by a Bolivarian political theology, the nation’s representatives, or “dancing Jacobins,” recursively draw on the repertoire of busts, portraits, and equestrian statues of national heroes scattered across Venezuela in a montage of monuments and dancing—or universal and particular. They monumentalize themselves on the stage of the polity as a ponderously statuesque yet occasionally riotous reflection of the nation’s general will. To this day, the nervous oscillation between crowds and peoplehood intrinsic to this form of government has inflected the republic’s institutions and constructs, from the sovereign “people” to the nation’s heroic imaginary, its constitutional texts, representative figures, parliamentary structures, and, not least, its army. Through this movement of collection and dispersion, these institutions are at all times haunted and imbued from within by the crowds they otherwise set out to mold, enframe, and address.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823263673

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Searching for the Secrets of Nature

The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández

By: Simon Varey,Rafael Chabrán

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Searching for the Secrets of Nature

The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández

By: Simon Varey,Rafael Chabrán

This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholars from several countries analyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87), author of the monumental The Natural History of New Spain, in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas.

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Stanford University Press

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0804739641

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Obstinate Star

A History of the Puerto Rico Independence Movement

By: Rafael Bernabe

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Obstinate Star

A History of the Puerto Rico Independence Movement

By: Rafael Bernabe

Obstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico’s independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement’s currents, within and beyond the island, linking them to ongoing social conflicts and international trends and conjunctures. Beginning with the radical democratic fight against Spanish control, it moves on to the early reactions to U.S. rule, the role of Nationalism, Communism and New Deal currents during the Great Depression and the Second World War, the rise of new forces in the wake of the Cuban revolution and recent struggles in the epoch of capitalist globalisation.

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900470793X

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Lanza De Amor

By: Rafael D. Mota

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Lanza De Amor

By: Rafael D. Mota

Lanza de Amor is book without metric, that so called white poems or free poems. Lanza de Amor try those white poems in the terms of love. However in the book are also poems dedicated to the mother earth that I so called them La tierra revolucionaria inspired from individuals conversation in the parking lot at 3:00 AM of very early morning. So these poems could be inspirational for crates love songs and even the poems dedicated to earth had been also this poetic mission. For furthermore this white poems are the work of some applied experience in anyway of the follow up explained.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483619885

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Index of American Periodical Verse 1975

By: Sander W. Zulauf,Irwin H. Weiser,Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson

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Index of American Periodical Verse 1975

By: Sander W. Zulauf,Irwin H. Weiser,Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson

The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810809656

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9780810809659

The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

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The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, A Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

By: Mercedes García-Arenal,Rafael Benitez Sanchez-Blanco

This book contains the whole text of an Inquisition trial of a Morisco (converted Muslim) of Toledo, Spain, condemned to burn at the stake. It is preceded by an introduction which studies the trial and shows the multifaceted aspects of the text and its protagonists.

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9004501606

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Fighting over Fidel

The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution

By: Rafael Rojas

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Fighting over Fidel

The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution

By: Rafael Rojas

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960s New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War—and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and opposed Castro’s revolution. Setting his narrative against the backdrop of the ideological confrontation of the Cold War and the breakdown of relations between Washington and Havana, Rafael Rojas examines the lives and writings of such figures as Waldo Frank, Carleton Beals, C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and Jose Yglesias. He describes how Castro’s Cuba was hotly debated in publications such as the New York Times, Village Voice, Monthly Review, and Dissent, and how Cuban socialism became a rallying cry for groups such as the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the Hispanic Left. Fighting over Fidel shows how intellectuals in New York interpreted and wrote about the Cuban experience, and how the Left’s enthusiastic embrace of Castro’s revolution ended in bitter disappointment by the close of the explosive decade of the 1960s.

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Princeton University Press

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When We're Sixty-Four

Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America

By: Rafael Rofman,Ignacio Apella

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When We're Sixty-Four

Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America

By: Rafael Rofman,Ignacio Apella

Latin American countries are in the midst of a demographic transition and, as a consequence, a population-aging process. Over the next few decades, the number of children will decline relative to the number of older adults. Population aging is the result of a slow but sustained reduction in mortality rates, given increases in life expectancy and fertility. These trends reflect welcome long-term improvements in welfare and in economic and social development. But this process also entails policy challenges: many public institutions—including education, health, and pension systems and labor market regulations—are designed for a different demographic context and will need to be adapted. When We’re Sixty-Four discusses public policies aimed at overcoming the two main challenges facing Latin American countries concerning the changing demographics. On one hand, older populations demand more fiscal resources for social services, such as health, long-term care, and pensions. On the other, population aging produces shifts in the proportion of the population that is working age, which may affect long-term economic growth. Aging societies risk losing dynamism, being exposed to higher dependency rates, and experiencing lower savings rates. Nonetheless, in the interim, Latin American countries have a demographic opportunity: a temporary decline in dependency rates creates a period in which the share of the working-age population, with its associated saving capacity, is at its highest levels. This constitutes a great opportunity in the short term because the higher savings may result in increases in capital endowment per worker and productivity. For that to happen, it is necessary to generate institutional, financial, and fiscal conditions that promote larger savings and investment, accelerating per capita economic growth in a sustainable way.

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World Bank Publications

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1464816050

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Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers

The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-century Peru

By: Rafael Varón Gabai

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Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers

The Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-century Peru

By: Rafael Varón Gabai

Based on author's doctoral dissertation, work reconstructs and analyzes the making of the financial empire of the conquerer of Peru and his brothers. Painstaking study examines and elucidates multiple aspects of both the economic and sociopolitical history of the Perus and Spain in the 16th century"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080612833X

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Environmentally Friendly Zeolites

Synthesis and Source Materials

By: Rafael Chaves Lima,Lindiane Bieseki,Paloma Vinaches Melguizo,Sibele Berenice Castellã Pergher

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Environmentally Friendly Zeolites

Synthesis and Source Materials

By: Rafael Chaves Lima,Lindiane Bieseki,Paloma Vinaches Melguizo,Sibele Berenice Castellã Pergher

This book details zeolites, their structures and the parameters that influence their synthesis, providing a new and actual perspective of this field. Following this, the authors show different processes used to synthesize zeolites using residues, natural materials, and other eco-friendly materials such as raw powder glass, clays, aluminum cans, diatomites, rice ashes or coal ashes. Finally, this book gives the reader a wide range of different synthesis methods that they can be applied to several industrial processes.

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Springer

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3030199703

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