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Days in Old Spain

Posted on by Lady Gertrude Helena Dodd Bone

Author: Lady Gertrude Helena Dodd Bone

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Spain

Page: 260

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Aztlán and Arcadia

Posted on by Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena

Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place

Author: Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 1479882364

Category: Religion

Page: 232

View: 7261

In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States’ national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.
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The Monthly Review

Posted on by Ralph Griffiths

Author: Ralph Griffiths

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Books

Page: N.A

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The Monthly Review

Posted on by N.A

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

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Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
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Three Deadly Days in Spain

Posted on by Mary Branham

Author: Mary Branham

Publisher: Sunstone Press

ISBN: 9780865343153

Category: Fiction

Page: 128

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After her husband's accidental death in Santa Fe, Sydney Reardon accepts the mission of delivering a holy relic to a monastery in Spain, but after the murder of a young man she met on the plane, she finds herself pursued by jewel thieves, kidnappers, and murderers.
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Dog Days in Andalucía

Posted on by Jackie Todd

Tails from Spain

Author: Jackie Todd

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 184596991X

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 256

View: 6449

It was love at first sight: the huge pale-green eyes, the ruffled tawny hair and the cute way he held his head to one side. What really swung it, though, was his feet being way too big for his body, his ears too big for his head and that, while trying to look brave, he was obviously terrified. Charly was the first of what grew to be a large family of abandoned Spanish dogs taken in by Jackie Todd and her husband Stephen after they emigrated in 1997 to Frigiliana, a picturesque Spanish village in Andalucia. By the time Charly was four, something magical had happened: the people of the village had become close friends and the Todds' memories of their old lives were as weak as British sunshine. Fourteen years on from that first arrival they have ten dogs and eight cats of their own and regularly foster tiny strays that need bottle-feeding until they can be found homes. In 2007, 123 puppies and kittens passed through their door; in 2008, it was 119; and the tragic procession continues today. Millions of people dream of turning their summer holiday into permanent reality. Dog Days in Andalucía is the heart-warming and inspirational story of an ordinary British couple who did just that, making a mighty impression on the village, its people and its surrounding animal population along the way.
Posted in Biography & Autobiography

Secret Cities of Old South America

Posted on by Harold T. Wilkins

Author: Harold T. Wilkins

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

ISBN: 1605203211

Category: Travel

Page: 488

View: 3866

Monstrous beasts, lost worlds, vanished civilizations, Amazon warriors, even Atlantis and Noahs ark figure in this wondrous and rare book. Hard to find in print before now, this obscure 1952 work is an artifact itself, of the postwar fascination with all things mysterious, from flying saucers to ancient astronauts to the third eye. In this wildly entertainingand more than a little bit preposterousdocument, Wilkins takes us from mountain jungles to unexplored swamps on a search for the hidden secrets of old South America. Seekers after the arcane and fans of the paranormal will delight in this odd and extraordinary volume. British journalist and historian HAROLD T. WILKINS (18911960) is also the author of Mysteries of Ancient South America (1945) and Mysteries of Time and Space (1958).
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The Last Days of Old Beijing

Posted on by Michael Meyer

Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

Author: Michael Meyer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 0802779123

Category: History

Page: 384

View: 1756

Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
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Old Spain in Our Southwest

Posted on by Nina Otero-Warren

Facsimile of the Original 1936 Edition

Author: Nina Otero-Warren

Publisher: Sunstone Press

ISBN: 1611392322

Category: History

Page: 220

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Nina Otero-Warren’s book, Old Spain in Our Southwest (1936), recorded her memories of the family hacienda in Las Lunas, New Mexico.
Posted in History

Mein Katalonien

Posted on by George Orwell

Bericht über den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Diogenes Verlag AG

ISBN: 3257602480

Category: Fiction

Page: 288

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Ende 1936 kam Orwell als Zeitungsreporter nach Barcelona, um über den Bürgerkrieg zu berichten. Er schloß sich der Miliz P.O.U.M. an, der Arbeiterpartei der marxistischen Einigung, und kämpfte den Winter über an der Front in Aragonien. Als er wenig später mit ansehen mußte, wie die Kommunisten bei der Ausschaltung der ihnen nicht genehmen Truppen Methoden der faschistischen Geheimpolizei anwandten, wurde er zu einem der erbittertsten Feinde des sowjetischen Totalitarismus.
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Baroque Times in Old Mexico

Posted on by Irving Albert Leonard

Seventeenth-century Persons, Places, and Practices

Author: Irving Albert Leonard

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

ISBN: 9780472061105

Category: History

Page: 260

View: 4110

Illuminates life in the feudal society of colonial Mexico
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New trails in old Spain

Posted on by Vernon Howe Bailey

Author: Vernon Howe Bailey

Publisher: J.H. Sears

ISBN: N.A

Category: History

Page: 313

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The Last Days Of The Incas

Posted on by Kim MacQuarrie

Author: Kim MacQuarrie

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1405526076

Category: History

Page: 544

View: 8189

The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers. In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed-due largely to their horses, their steel armour and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba-only recently rediscovered by a trio of colorful American explorers. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.
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Dog Days in Andalucía

Posted on by Jackie Todd

Tails from Spain

Author: Jackie Todd

Publisher: Mainstream

ISBN: 9781780576473

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 256

View: 9705

It was love at first sight: the huge pale-green eyes, the ruffled tawny hair and the cute way he held his head to one side. What really swung it, though, was his feet being way too big for his body, his ears too big for his head and that, while trying to look brave, he was obviously terrified. Charly was the first of what grew to be a large family of abandoned Spanish dogs taken in by Jackie Todd and her husband Stephen after they emigrated in 1997 to Frigiliana, a picturesque Spanish village in Andalucia. By the time Charly was four, something magical had happened: the people of the village had become close friends and the Todds' memories of their old lives were as weak as British sunshine. Fourteen years on from that first arrival they have ten dogs and eight cats of their own and regularly foster tiny strays that need bottle-feeding until they can be found homes. In 2007, 123 puppies and kittens passed through their door; in 2008, it was 119; and the tragic procession continues today. Millions of people dream of turning their summer holiday into permanent reality. Dog Days in Andalucía is the heart-warming and inspirational story of an ordinary British couple who did just that, making a mighty impression on the village, its people, and its surrounding animal population along the way.
Posted in Biography & Autobiography

The Days of Wee Willie, Old Cy and Baseball War

Posted on by Chuck Kimberly

Scenes from the Dawn of the Deadball Era, 1900–1903

Author: Chuck Kimberly

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 1476615519

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 296

View: 7886

This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavor of the period by providing yearly overviews from the standpoint of each team and by focusing more deeply on 30 or more players of the era—not only such legendary stars as Cy Young and Willie Keeler, but also relative unknowns such as Bill Keister and Kip Selbach. Each team section is supplemented by a table providing the significant batting and pitching statistics for each regular team member. The major theme of the period was the baseball war between the National and American leagues from 1900 to 1903. But the broad multi-season, multi-team view allows varying the focus. The pennant races receive due attention but there are other aspects of the baseball drama, such as: the aging star who finds a way to extend his period of dominance (Cy Young); the young, unpolished phenom whose raw talent enables him to excel (Christy Mathewson); and the fierce competitor who risks injury to help his team (Joe McGinnity or Deacon Phillippe).
Posted in Sports & Recreation

Material Dreams

Posted on by Kevin Starr

Southern California through the 1920s

Author: Kevin Starr

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0199923272

Category: History

Page: 496

View: 4345

Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles), and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil, the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture the impact of the automobile on city planning, the Hollywood film community, the L.A. literati, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.
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22 Days in Barcelona

Posted on by Fabio Meneghini,A Maggi

Author: Fabio Meneghini,A Maggi

Publisher: Alinari

ISBN: N.A

Category: Art

Page: 180

View: 7586

Fast consumption, with a voracity for the photographic image, needed a gesture that would expand time, transforming a normal travel notebook into a formidable forge of unusual descriptions through day and night, alternating suggestions, altering scenes and not respecting the classic canons of standardized image. So Fabio Meneghini, loyal to the tradition of a city with a vocation for experimentation, aims at eccentricity in this magnificent day-by-day journey through the capital of Catalonia: a city with imaginatively colored architecture and most of its streets swarming with life. More than reportage on Barcelona this is a confession: how an apparently normal forty year old surgeon plans, observes, maneuvers, anatomizes, examines and crosses the city with view to rediscovery of crossroads and influences that look into a complex labyrinth of interactions.
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