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Author : Oscar de la Torre
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643250

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The People of the River by Oscar de la Torre Pdf

In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the natural landscape and to Indigenous peoples. Relying on this world as a repository for traditions, discourses, and strategies that they retrieved especially in moments of conflict, Afro-Brazilians fought for autonomous communities and developed a vibrant ethnic identity that supported their struggles over labor, land, and citizenship. Prior to abolition, enslaved and escaped blacks found in the tropical forest a source for tools, weapons, and trade--but it was also a cultural storehouse within which they shaped their stories and records of confrontations with slaveowners and state authorities. After abolition, the black peasants' knowledge of local environments continued to be key to their aspirations, allowing them to maintain relationships with powerful patrons and to participate in the protest cycle that led Getulio Vargas to the presidency of Brazil in 1930. In commonly referring to themselves by such names as "sons of the river," black Amazonians melded their agro-ecological traditions with their emergent identity as political stakeholders.

Author : Iñigo García-Bryce
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469636603

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Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in Twentieth-Century Peru and Latin America by Iñigo García-Bryce Pdf

Like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Peruvian Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (1895–1979) was one of Latin America's key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries. Inigo Garcia-Bryce's biography of Haya chronicles his dramatic political odyssey as founder of the highly influential American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), as a political theorist whose philosophy shifted gradually from Marxism to democracy, and as a seasoned opposition figure repeatedly jailed and exiled by his own government. Garcia-Bryce spotlights Haya's devotion to forging populism as a political style applicable on both the left and the right, and to his vision of a pan-Latin American political movement. A great orator who addressed gatherings of thousands of Peruvians, Haya fired up the Aprismo movement, seeking to develop "Indo-America" by promoting the rights of Indigenous peoples as well as laborers and women. Steering his party toward the center of the political spectrum through most of the Cold War, Haya was elected president in 1962—but he was blocked from assuming office by the military, which played on his rumored homosexuality. Even so, Haya's insistence that political parties must cultivate Indigenous roots and oppose violence as a means of achieving political power has left a powerful legacy across Latin America.

Author : Luis Girón-Negrón
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475823

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Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable by Luis Girón-Negrón Pdf

The sources, content and fate of the 15th-century allegorical fable Visión Deleytable are examined from three angles: as a medieval compendium of religious philosophy, as a major influence in Spanish literature, and as an invaluable historical source on Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Spain. The volume is divided into three sections. The first part considers Visión's didacticism within the Jewish and Christian frames of education in 15th-century Spain. The second part includes a review of Visión's philosophical content as a comprehensive articulation of a rationalist Weltanschauung. The final section traces its intriguing editorial fate and literary influence through the 17th century in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. It is Visión's first systematic study from the dual perspective of a Hispanist and a Hebraist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510725980

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Understanding the Golf Swing by Anonim Pdf

This modern classic of golf instruction by renowned teacher Manuel de la Torre (the 1986 PGA Teacher of the Year and the #11 teacher in America as ranked by the editors of Golf Digest in 2007) presents a simpler approach to the golf swing based on Ernest Jones’s principles. Understanding the Golf Swing includes information on the philosophy of the golf swing (with emphasis on the development of a true swinging motion), the most thorough analysis of ball flights available, and analysis of the principles of special shot play (including sand play, pitching, chipping, putting, and playing unusual shots) and the mental side of golf and effective course management. The final chapter offers an organized approach to understanding golf courses and playing conditions. The result is a blend of philosophy and practical advice found in few golf instructional books.

Author : John Gethin Hughes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487590338

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The Poetry of Francisco de la Torre by John Gethin Hughes Pdf

Francisco de la Torre has long been praised as an outstanding poet in the mould of Garcilaso de la Vega and his simplicity of style and soft, gentle, Arcadian environment of his poetry have been emphasized. In this volume Professor Hughes attempts to define more accurately the position of Francisco de la Torre's verse in the evolution of Spanish poetry in the sixteenth century, revealing that Torre's vision of the pastoral world and his poetic language show him to be a transitional poet of considerable quality and substance and not merely an imitator of Garcilaso. Hughes demonstrates that while some of Torre's poetry follows a general pastoral pattern, his descriptions are characterized by a sense of movement through a shifting perspective and that even in poems with a traditional pastoral setting, the descriptions sometimes negate the pastoral qualities. The author also shows that Torre, rather than looking back towards Garcilaso and his contemporaries, is already anticipating – especially in his stylistic technique and in his view of nature – the attitude of the seventeenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11786383

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monica de la Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1643620142

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Repetition Nineteen by Monica de la Torre Pdf

Based on slippages between languages and irreverent approaches to translation, the poems in Repetition Nineteen riff on creative misunderstanding in response to the prevailing political discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UIUC:30112023522805

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Cumulated Index Medicus by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Cole,John McNabb,Matt Grove,Rob Hosfield
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789693805

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Landscapes of Human Evolution by James Cole,John McNabb,Matt Grove,Rob Hosfield Pdf

Fourteen papers are presented here in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art.

Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Andorra
ISBN : MINN:31951D00229796P

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Spain and Andorra by United States. Office of Geography Pdf

Author : Chile. Ministerio de Marina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Chile
ISBN : UCAL:B2908983

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Memoria by Chile. Ministerio de Marina Pdf

Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015716462

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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates: Supplementary volume. 1879 by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library Pdf

Author : Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art,Constantina Oldknow
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295984686

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Einar & Jamex de la Torre by Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art,Constantina Oldknow Pdf

The de la Torre brothers combine exquisitely ornate blown and flame-worked glass works with cheap, mass-produced knickknacks, plastic flowers, fake fur, painted coins, and other found objects. Their art is a skillful combination of disparate elements, appropriating content, meaning, and materials from both high and low cultures. This intersection of contrasting elements reflects their dual residence in Mexico and the United States. The de la Torres describe themselves as "Mexican-American bicultural artists," influenced by "the morbid humor of Mexican folk art, the absurd pageantry of Catholicism, and machismo" on the one hand, and fascinated by "the American culture of excess" on the other. These artists do not hesitate to confront preconceived notions about artistic materials, cultural identity, and political borders. Dividing their time between the studios they share in San Diego and San Antonio de las Minas, they cross the international border several times a week, which provides them with a "parallel appreciation of both cultures." Their status as both insider and outsider, neither Mexican nor American, underpins their artistic discourse. Einar and Jamex de la Torre includes an essay on the artists' work by Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, and an original interview with the artists by Gronk, a Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale, site-specific murals.

Author : George Ticknor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Spanish literature
ISBN : OSU:32435074352816

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History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor Pdf

Author : Mónica de la Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132343349

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Public Domain by Mónica de la Torre Pdf

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "PUBLIC DOMAIN is First Rate, worthy of Rerereading and Full-Tilt Gesamkunstwerke Treatment, and, rest assured, will never rest. Which is to say: the interplay of text/orality, theory/playfulness, concrete/lyric appearing in every form imaginable/heretofore unimagined, adds up to the most adventurous Conceptual Mystery Poem I have ever read/performed. I cannot imagine poetry without her" Bob Holman."