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Of Love and Other Passions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Of Love and Other Passions

In Of Love and Other Passions Guiomar Dueñas-Vargas delves into the world of emotions among the bourgeois elite in Bogotà from the end of the colonial period to 1870. While most studies of the period focus solely on the countryâ (TM)s political activity, Dueñas-Vargas shows how Colombiaâ (TM)s social, cultural, and political changes transformed the meaning of love, which contributed to the evolution of new models of femininity and masculinity. By examining sources such as personal letters and diaries, Dueñas-Vargas presents the emotional profiles of families and couples, demonstrating how their conduct challenged the established order. As lovers insisted on choosing their own mates rather than marrying spouses selected by their parents, they undermined the patriarchal structure of Colombian society. Such decisions unveil the many functions women assumed in both public and private life and how they participated in the invention of a nation.

The Women of Colonial Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

The Women of Colonial Latin America

Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.

Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Colombia

Updated to include the historic 2022 presidential election, this deeply informed and accessible book traces the history of Colombia thematically over the past two centuries. LaRosa and Mejía move beyond the common perception of a failed state to explore the rich heritage and dynamism that have characterized Colombia past and present.

The Faces of Honor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Faces of Honor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-08
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.

Raising an Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Raising an Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.

The Famous Lady Lovers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

The Famous Lady Lovers

Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and queer flirtations flourished. Cookie Woolner here uncovers the intimate lives of performers, writers, and educators such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Gladys Bentley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Lucy Diggs Slowe, along with the many everyday women she encountered in the archives. Examining blues ...

Nationalism Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Nationalism Studies

Explore the complexities of nationalism with Nationalism Studies, a key volume in the Political Science series. This essential read delves into the intricate relationship between nationalism, identity, and global politics, offering valuable insights for professionals, students, and enthusiasts alike. Chapter Highlights: 1. Nationalism Studies: Introduction to the core concepts and importance of nationalism in modern political science. 2. Nationalism: Foundational theories and evolution of nationalism. 3. Nation: The role of nations as political and cultural entities. 4. Women's Studies: Intersection of nationalism and gender, highlighting women's roles in nationalist movements. 5. Cultural I...

Fractional Freedoms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Fractional Freedoms

Fractional Freedoms examines paths to liberty forged in the slaveowning household, and legal claims brought by slaves in colonial Lima.

Crafting a Republic for the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 459

Crafting a Republic for the World

In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish "colonial legacy." Those supposed legacies included a lack of effective geographic knowledge, blockages to a circulatory political economy, existing patterns of land tenure, entrenched inequalities, and ignorance among popular sectors. At times collaboratively, and at times combatively, Colombian leaders tackled these "colonial" legacies to forge a republic in a hostile world of monarchies and empires. The highly partisan, yet uniformly republican pu...

Children of Fate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Children of Fate

In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families both elite and plebeian in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chile, she focuses on a group largely invisible in Latin American historiography: children. The concept of family constituted a crucial dimension of an individual’s identity and status, but also denoted a privileged set of gendered and generational dependencies that not all people could claim. Children of Fate explores such themes as paternity, illegitimacy, kinship...