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El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An intriguing history of the hired readers who read to cigar factory workers in Cuba, Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.
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Cinema and Social Change in Latin America: Conversations with Filmmakers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Twenty interviews with key figures of Latin American cinema, covering three decades and ranging from Argentina to Mexico
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Houston Lost and Unbuilt (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A fascinating look at Houston's lost and surviving built heritage, and serves as a reminder to preserve what is still there
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From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For the pre-conquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in... Læs mere
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Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cultural diplomacy - "winning hearts and minds" through positive portrayals of the American way of life - is a key element in US foreign... Læs mere
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Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painters perspective on the tandem of ethno-suicide and ethno-genesis, and the topology of conquest
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Antiphon and Andocides (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely... Læs mere
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Transforming Modernity: Popular Culture in Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? This title addresses these questions.
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Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences
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Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
How the modern Iraqi state has used archaeology to forge a sense of nationhood and political legitimacy
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When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. This title includes essays that addresses the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways.
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Lysias (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Contains the complete works and eleven of the largest fragments attributed to Lysias, the leading speechwriter of the generation (403-380 BC) after the Peloponnesian War, who was also one of the finest and most deceptive storytellers of all time.
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