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Review Of: Lara, Jaime. City, Temple, Stage : Eschatological Architecture And Liturgical Theatrics In New Spain, Barbara E. Mundy
Review Of: Lara, Jaime. City, Temple, Stage : Eschatological Architecture And Liturgical Theatrics In New Spain, Barbara E. Mundy
Art History and Music Faculty Publications
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Redefining Civilization: Historical Polarities And Mythologizing In Los Con Quistadores Of Pablo Neruda's Canto General, Mark J. Mascia
Redefining Civilization: Historical Polarities And Mythologizing In Los Con Quistadores Of Pablo Neruda's Canto General, Mark J. Mascia
Languages Faculty Publications
The article analyzes the book Canto General, by Pablo Neruda.
Pablo Neruda's poetic history of Latin America, Canto General (1950), is perhaps best known for its lyricized defense of oppressed and subjugated peoples throughout Latin America, as the author had perceived them. This collection, organized into fifteen sections (often, though not always, linear in its chronicling of Latin American history), treats this social theme from Pre-Columbian times through the mid-Twentieth Century. In addition, the collection is clearly infused with a profoundly Marxist ideology, as well as a call to arms against powers which Neruda had perceived as aggressors, namely …
Politics, Economy And Society In Bourbon Central America, Jordana Dym, Christophe Belaubre
Politics, Economy And Society In Bourbon Central America, Jordana Dym, Christophe Belaubre
Jordana Dym
Cloth. 320 pages. Illustrations: 4 b/w photos, 1 drawing, 7 maps, 2 tables
Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821 examines how the Spanish policies known broadly as the Bourbon Reforms affected Central American social, economic, and political institutions. Although historians have devoted significant attention to the purpose and impact of these reforms in Spain and some of Spain's other New World colonies, this book is the first to explore their impact on Central America.
These reforms profoundly changed aspects of Central America's politics and society; however, these essays reveal that changes in the region were shaped both …