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Hispanic American Vanguard Poetry (1916-1925), C.A.W. Capsas
Hispanic American Vanguard Poetry (1916-1925), C.A.W. Capsas
Latin American Studies ETDs
The modernist literary movement in Hispanic America, occurring during a thirty-year period beginning in 1888, was the first clear demonstration of the regions capacity for original literary expression of universal significance. Yet the student, at least one in Mexico or in the United States, is repeatedly impressed by the fact that, while the Modernist opinion movement had been understood (and consequently "professed" well), there is a broad variance of opinion on Post-Modernist development.
The Hospitals Of New Spain In The Sixteenth Century, Jean Maxine Cohen
The Hospitals Of New Spain In The Sixteenth Century, Jean Maxine Cohen
Latin American Studies ETDs
It is the purpose of this study to present an account of hospitals and charitable institutions in New Spain during the sixteenth century. In order to gain a clear concept of this phase of the Spanish cultural program in the New World, it is first necessary to understand practices which originated in the realms of Castile as well as in other European nations, and were later transferred to the Americas. Such an initial investigation causes the modern reader to realize that the term "hospital" then involved much more than the medical treatment accorded today to those persons suffering from acute …