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Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Constructs ethnohistories of the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras to explain why only... Læs mere
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Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A provocative rethinking of the war on terror that exposes the dangers of Western blindness to colonial Middle Eastern history and breaks the deadlock of geopolitics and religious identity.
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East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The story of the largest Mexican-American community in the United States, the city within a city known as "East Los Angeles," and how it came to be.
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The Amazing Armadillo: Geography of a Folk Critter (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This informative book traces the spread of the nine-banded armadillo from its first notice in South Texas late in the 1840s to its current range east to Florida and north to Missouri.
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The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Bryce Wood describes the temptations laid before the leaders of one powerful state by its occasionally recalcitrant neighbors, and the ways of reacting that were found.
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Toward a Reasonable Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A defense of industrial culture., drawing upon numerous areas of knowledge—ethics, sociology, economics, anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, biology, music, the graphic arts, mathematics, the physical sciences—to show the uniformities and the u
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Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.
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Modernization and the Working Class: The Politics of Legitimacy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Combining classical social theory, historical evidence, and survey data, Waisman explores the relationship between the degree of modernization and the legitimacy of the capitalist social order.
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Civil Service Reform in Brazil: Principles Versus Practice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Why public administration theories of the United States and Western Europe, when transplanted to another cultural setting, did not take root and in fact unexpectedly proved to be most applicable in Brazil during periods of autocratic rule.
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Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This provocative new companion to Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History shows how viewing an array of Latin texts through the lens of conspiracy theory reveals a host of socioeconomic tensions from the Roman Republic through the age of the emperors.
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From a Year in Greece (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century.
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Classical and Modern Interactions: Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this thought-provoking work, a noted classics scholar tests the ancient-modern comparison, showing what it can add to contemporary debates and what its limitations are.
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