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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel...

More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an...

This new edition has been lightly updated throughout, but also includes an entirely new chapter on changes that the pandemic brought to the taco landscape--Author: José R. RalatPublisher: University...

A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium. Beneath the Italian city of Arezzo lie the remains of Etruscan Arretium. This volume, the first...

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country's least powerful citizens-impoverished women living in...

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage.Author: Franz NicolayPublisher: University of Texas PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: 308...

The Nasca Lines are one of the world's great enigmas. Who etched the more than 1,000 animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru? How did the...

From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and...

A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy's literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy's...

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran's Khuzestan province. In 1980, Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist forces invaded...

Between 1918 and 1961, Brazil and the USSR maintained formal diplomatic ties for only thirty-one months, at the end of World War II. Yet, despite the official distance, the USSR is the only external...

Has the world economy shaped and defined Brazil's economic and political history and, if so, to what extent? Is Brazil's past to be explained principally by its insertion in a single world capitalist...

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in S?o Paulo during Brazil's conservative turn from 2010 to 2018. For decades, LGBT+ activists across the globe have secured victories by...

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in S?o Paulo during Brazil's conservative turn from 2010 to 2018. For decades, LGBT+ activists across the globe have secured victories by...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...

Launched in 1975, the Califia Community organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California until its dissolution in 1987. An alternative to mainstream academia's attempts...

2023 de la Torre Bueno(R) First Book Award, Dance Studies AssociationThe impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940...

An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas. Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco...

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city"...

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members? challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression. Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or...

From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person-Colonel Sanders...

On July 4th, 1876, during the centennial celebration of U.S. independence, the city of Key West held a different type of celebration. In some areas in post-Civil War Florida, Black residents were...

Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom...

Until 1930, Argentina was one of the great hopes for stable democracy in Latin America. Argentines themselves believed in the destiny of their nation to become the leading Latin American country in...

For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of...

Five deadly epidemics, chiefly typhus and smallpox, struck Mexico City in the years between 1761 and 1813, claiming a minimum of fifty thousand lives. Mexico City was at that time the major...

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Mexico was the only country to offer open refuge to the thousands of Republican emigr?s who fled from Spain in 1939-1940. Exiles and Citizens is a study of these...

With revelations for even the most avid fans, here are the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time, from today's blockbusters such as Guardians of the Galaxy and Gravity to forgotten classics...

Federalism and Regional Development is the resuit of the first German-American geography seminar, held at the University of Texas in September 1979. The chapters deal with the impact of geographic...

Essayist, editor, columnist, author of many books, and winner of a special Pulitzer Prize citation in 1958 for his powers of news analysis, Walter Lippmann both appraised and influenced...