Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2: A Critical Edition, Von Humboldt Alexander

Автор: Von Humboldt Alexander
Название: Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1: A Critical Edition
ISBN: 022665138X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226651385
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1 and 2 of Humboldt's Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827.

Alexander von Humboldt was the most celebrated modern chronicler of North and South America and the Caribbean, and this translation of his essay on New Spain--the first modern regional economic and political geography--covers his travels across today's Mexico in 1803-1804. The work canvases natural-scientific and cultural-scientific objects alike, combining the results of fieldwork with archival research and expert testimony.

To show how people, plants, animals, goods, and ideas moved across the globe, Humboldt wrote in a variety of styles, bending and reshaping familiar writerly conventions to keep readers attentive to new inputs. Above all, he wanted his readers to be open-minded when confronted with cultural and other differences in the Americas. Fueled by his comparative global perspective on politics, economics, and science, he used his writing to support Latin American independence and condemn slavery and other forms of colonial exploitation. It is these voluminous and innovative writings on the New World that made Humboldt the undisputed father of modern geography, early American studies, transatlantic cultural history, and environmental studies.

This two-volume critical edition--the third installment in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series--is based on the full text, including all footnotes, tables, and maps, of the second, revised French edition of Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827, which has never been translated into English before. Extensive annotations and full-color atlases are available on the series website.

Автор: Humboldt
Название: Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
ISBN: 1108077897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108077897
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as `the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived`. During his voyage aboard the Beagle, Darwin acquired a copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt`s account of the land and people of Mexico.

Автор: Humboldt
Название: Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
ISBN: 1108077900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108077903
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Описание: The acclaimed Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was referred to by Charles Darwin as `the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived`. During his voyage aboard the Beagle, Darwin acquired a copy of this two-volume 1811 New York edition of Humboldt`s account of the land and people of Mexico.

Автор: Powell David A.
Название: Decisions at Chickamauga: The Twenty-Four Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle
ISBN: 1621904113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621904113
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание:  Following his successful Tullahoma Campaign, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Army of the Cumberland renewed their offensive against Gen. Braxton Bragg and the Confederate Army of Tennessee, forcing Bragg out of Chattanooga and sending his troops fleeing into north Georgia. Determined to reoccupy Chattanooga, Bragg forced a battle lasting from September 18 to 20, 1863, near Chickamauga Creek that would come to be known as the Battle of Chickamauga. Decisions at Chickamauga introduces readers to critical decisions made by Confederate and Union commanders during that fateful battle. Rather than offering a history of the Battle of Chickamauga, Powell focuses on critical decisions as they developed. This account is designed to present the reader with a coherent and manageable interpretive blueprint of the battle’s key moments. Exploring and studying these critical decisions allows the reader to progress from an understanding of what happened to why events happened as they did.    Complete with maps and a guided tour, Decisions at Chickamauga will be an indispensable primer, and readers looking for a digestible introduction to the Battle of Chickamauga can tour this sacred ground—or read about it at their leisure—and gain key insights into why events unfolded as they did as well as a deeper understanding of the Civil War itself.   Decisions at Chickamauga is the third in a series of books that will explore the critical decisions of major campaigns and battles of the Civil War.   DAVE POWELL is the author of five books on the Battle of Chickamauga, including the three-volume The Chickamauga Campaign. His articles have appeared in North & South Magazine, Gettysburg Magazine, and Civil War History, among others.  

Автор: Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo
Название: `Another Jerusalem`: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568)
ISBN: 9004341447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004341449
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: In ‘Another Jerusalem’: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding why the most densely populated and culturally sophisticated regions of Mesoamerica accepted the authority of Spanish viceroys. By focusing on the routines and practices of quotidian political life in New Spain, and the ideological affinities that bound indigenous and non-indigenous political communities to the viceregal regime, Lopez Portillo discloses the formation of new loyalties, interests and identities particular to New Spain. Rather than the traditional view of European colonial domination over a demoralized indigenous population, New Spain now appears as Mexico City’s sub-empire: an aggregate of the Habsburg ‘composite monarchy’. "Embellished with wonderful illustrations, this work draws upon extensive secondary and primary sources. Scholars studying Spain's America will find it a thoughtful addition to historical literature on 16th-century New Spain." M. A. Burkholder, University of Missouri - St. Louis, CHOICE, July 2018 Vol. 55 No. 11

Автор: Greenberg Ivan
Название: Surveillance in America: Critical Analysis of the FBI, 1920 to the Present
ISBN: 0739172476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739172476
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Описание: Surveillance in America is a study of FBI surveillance practices and policies since 1920 based on recently declassified FBI files. This wide-ranging study looks at such subjects as the media, academic historians, the Watergate crisis, and surveillance of the American working class.

Автор: Parrington Vernon Louis
Название: Beginnings of Critical Realism in America
ISBN: 1412851645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412851640
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Описание: This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington`s Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism

Автор: Greco Anthony F.
Название: Chomsky`s Challenge to American Power: A Guide for the Critical Reader
ISBN: 0826519474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826519474
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Описание: Noam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy. Chomsky's Challenge examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century of intellectual activism--the Vietnam War, America's broader international role (especially its interventions in the Third World), the structure of power in American politics, the role of the media and of intellectuals in forming public opinion, and American foreign policy in the post-Cold War world.

Chomsky is as controversial as he is influential. Admirers see him as a courageous teller of unpleasant truths about political power and those who wield it in the United States. Critics view him as a propagandist and ideologue who sees only black and white where there are multiple shades of gray. While Chomsky's fans tend to view him uncritically, his critics often don't take him seriously. Unlike any previous work, this book takes Chomsky seriously while treating him critically. The author gives Chomsky credit for valuable contributions to our understanding of the contemporary political world, but spares no criticism of the serious deficiencies he sees in Chomsky's political analyses.

Автор: Mansoor Niaz
Название: Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise
ISBN: 1402096259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781402096259
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Presents methodological guidelines - based on a historical perspective of philosophy of science. This book shows that interpretation of experimental data is difficult and leads to alternative models/theories thus facilitating the understanding of science as a human enterprise.

Автор: Mansoor Niaz
Название: Critical Appraisal of Physical Science as a Human Enterprise
ISBN: 9048181720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048181728
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Описание: This book spans nearly 300 years of scientific history as it reconstructs episodes and experiments key to scientific progress, exploring the role played by controversies and rivalries among scientists. It includes guidelines for further research.

Автор: McParland Robert
Название: Mark Twain`s Audience: A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain
ISBN: 0739190512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739190517
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Описание: The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twain`s audience as a unique "reading community"-how his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality and humor that Twain brought to their lives.

Автор: Medina Yolanda, Donoso Macaya Ngeles
Название: Latinos/as on the East Coast: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 1433124084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433124082
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Описание: Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive overview of established and contemporary research and essays written about communities that represent the Latina/o diaspora on the East Coast of the United States. Collectively, it contributes to the historical, cultural, political, and economic dynamics that affect the Latinas/os’ lived experience of the country. Analyzed through an interdisciplinary lens, this reader offers a critical examination of the policies and the practices that affect the following current and emerging themes and topics: History; Ethnicity and culture; Immigration, transnationalism, and civil rights; Education; Health; Women’s studies; Film and media studies; Queer studies; Literature; Visual and performing arts.
This book is an indispensable resource for scholars, researchers, educators, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as any individual, group, or organization interested in issues that affect Latinas/os in the United States in current times.