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Author : Martin Luis Guzman
Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0844606685
Author : Edward Rickford
Publisher : Tenochtitlan Trilogy
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1090111479
Tenochtitlan, 1519. Motecuhzoma, leader of the Mexica Confederacy, rules over the largest domain in all of Mesoamerica and has every expectation that his nation will continue to reign supreme... but the arrival of strange foreigners will test that confidence. Driven by God, gold, and glory, the uncouth interlopers are led by Hernando Cortes and command weapons that can shake the sky. They hail from a faraway land called Spain, and they may have sinister designs. Their disruptive presence demands a response, and the choice Motecuhzoma must make could elevate his nation to new heights or cause its ruin. Combining the superb research of the Moundville Duology with the gripping battles of the Conqueror Series, this award-winning novel draws upon modern scholarship to recount an event still unique today: the epic collision of two civilizations separated for millennia. Editorial Reviews "A captivating, well-plotted, bicultural dramatization of the months prior to Motecuhzoma's meeting with Cortés, deftly transporting the reader 500 years back into the eyes and intimate relationships of key participants--Mesoamerican and European, emperor and counselor, conqueror and slave." --Andrew Rowen, author of Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold "The story weaves a rich tapestry of Spanish conquistadors and native Mexica--commonly known as the Aztecs--as well as the neighboring native tribes, that transports readers to the lush jungles and grand cities of pre-Hispanic Mexico. The writing is clear and easy to read, with just enough Spanish and Nahuatl to add deep flavors without slowing the pace." --Casey Robb, author of The Devil's Grip "The Serpent and the Eagle is expertly written and painstakingly researched.... Rickford has captured a fascinating historical moment and turned it into an absorbing story that makes the history come alive." --Jim White, author of Borders in Paradise "In The Serpent and the Eagle, Edward Rickford has achieved wonderful world-building/scene-setting to the extent that even if you aren't familiar with the history surrounding the novel, you can pick this book up and enjoy it regardless." --Aaron Booth, author of Life Eternal "The Serpent and the Eagle is another literary text that may offer the reader exits out of the colonial wound of indignity and entrances into the enunciative reclamation of silenced historical, social, and cultural spaces." --C.T. Mexica, Ph. D, Arizona State University "Told through multiple points of view, Rickford's words flow from the page like silk, engrossing the reader in insatiable Spanish hunger for gold and the anxiety Cortez's conquest brings to the native Mexica." --K.M. Pohlkamp, author of Apricots and Wolfsbane Winner of the 2017 Best in Category Prize in the 2017 Chaucer Book Awards for historical fiction.
Author : Martín Luis Guzmán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Mexico
ISBN : OCLC:760606706
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Egoism
ISBN : PRNC:32101023321530
Author : Martín Luis Guzmán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Mexico
ISBN : LCCN:30002582
Author : John Erwin McCall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Egoism
ISBN : UIUC:30112085000096
Author : Trevor Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944651055
Author : John Selby
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027977068
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035134852
Author : Mary Kay Vaughan,Stephen Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387527
When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940. Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully. Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, María Teresa Fernández, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. López, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velázquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala
Author : Brannon Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0557276128
'The Serpent, the Eagle, the Lion and the Disk' The preeminent symbols of the sacred in the ancient world. The Ancients associated these symbols with the Divine. Many theories have been developed regarding these symbols yet the mystery still remains. This is particularly true of the aniconic winged disk symbol. How and why does the same symbol have the same meaning to so many people of diverse cultures and civilizations? Was it the symbol of an all-conquering triumphalist Egyptian or Sumerian Empire or perhaps of a vanished race from beyond the stars? Or is it a representation of a universal transcendent experience? The pieces of this puzzle have long been scattered throughout history, hidden amongst the mystical traditions of the world. Unravel the truly astounding and majestic history of religion, civilization and God. This book represents a Startling Revelation and a Revolutionary New Look at the Origins of Humanity's Common Mystical Experience, its Religion, Culture and the Rise of Civilization.
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515057339
Author : Eldon Yellowhorn,Kathy Lowinger
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781773213309
"There is no death. Only a change of worlds.” —Chief Seattle [Seatlh], Suquamish Chief What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive. When the only possible “victory” was survival, they survived. In this brilliant follow up to Turtle Island, esteemed academic Eldon Yellowhorn and award-winning author Kathy Lowinger team up again, this time to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands. What the Eagle Sees shares accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered in Indigenous history from a vastly under-represented perspective—an Indigenous viewpoint.
Author : Gregory McNamee
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820322253
“We travel the world,” writes Gregory McNamee, “and wherever we go there are snake stories to entertain us.” Here are some fifty diverse and unusual accounts of serpents from cultures across time and around the globe: snakes that talk, jump, and dance; snakes that transform into other creatures; snakes that just . . . watch. Many selections are drawn from the rich oral traditions of peoples in every clime that supports reptiles, from the Akimel O’odham of North America to the Mensa Bet-Abrahe of Africa to the Mungkjan of Australia. Included as well are such writings as prayers from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, a poem by Emily Dickinson, and a journal entry by Charles Darwin. What we read about snakes in The Serpent’s Tale is just as fascinating for what it says about us, for there always will be something primordial about our connection to them. That bond is evident in these stories: in how we associate snakes with nature’s elemental forces, how we attribute special qualities to their eyes and skin, and how they preside over all phases of our existence, from creation to death to resurrection.
Author : John Millin Selby (historien)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : OCLC:4134478
