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Sociology in Mexico
This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the main economic, political and social change in the country, including the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the main social movements, the role of the intellectual exiles from Spain and …
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- 978-3-031-42089-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Sociology Transformed
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Knowledge of the Pragmatici : Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the …
Knowledge of the pragmatici sheds new light on pragmatic normative literature (mainly from the religious sphere), a genre crucial for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. Long underrated by legal historical scholarship, these media – manuals for confessors, catechisms, and moral theological literature – selected and localised normative knowledge for the colonial …
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- 978-90-04-42573-6
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- xiv, 382 pp.
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- Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds, Volume: 1
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Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States : Faith, Conflic…
From Eusebio Kino to Daniel Berrigan, and from colonial New England to contemporary Seattle, Jesuits have built and disrupted institutions in ways that have fundamentally shaped the Catholic Church and American society. As Catherine O’Donnell demonstrates, Jesuits in French, Spanish, and British colonies were both evangelists and agents of empire. John Carroll envisioned an American church in…
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- 978-90-04-43317-5
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- vi, 112 pp.
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression : Organization and Demograp…
From the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767, members of the Society of Jesus played an important role in the urban life of Spanish America and as administrators of frontier missions. This study examines the organization of the Society of Jesus in Spanish America in large provinces, as well as the different urban institutions such as colegios and frontier missions. It outlines …
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- 978-90-04-46034-8
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- vi, 108 pp.: 15 color ills., 4 maps, 22 tables
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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The Exhibitor as Producer; Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-1926
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-71781-9
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- XVII, 199
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In and Out of Suriname : Language, Mobility and Identity
In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the s…
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- 978-90-04-28012-0
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- 304 pp
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- Caribbean Series, Volume: 34
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The Exhibitor as Producer = Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-…
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan …
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- 1
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- 9783031717819
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- XVII, 199 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America
This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and t…
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- 9783030370237
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- IX, 253 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstandi…
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- 978-3-030-01003-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Studies of the Americas
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- 324
A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy
In a 1987 interview, José Saramago eloquently expressed what could be considered his political-philosophical manifesto: “Human beings should not content themselves with the role of mere observers. They bear a responsibility to the world; they must actively engage and intervene.” In 1998 the celebrated writer was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature. So Saramago did not only as a hu…
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- 978-3-7329-8985-0
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- 302
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- iBroLiT – Estudos Iberorrománicos de Literatura e Tradutoloxía. Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology
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