LIBROS DEL AUTOR: terry rugeley

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: terry rugeley

  • Maya Lords and Lordship
    Sergio Quezada / Terry Rugeley
    When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social power, arguing that it operated not over territ...
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    42,70 €

  • Epic Mexico
    Terry Rugeley
    Spanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engaging. The book’s story reaches from the days of the saber-tooth tiger to those of its perhaps more dangerous modern counterpart, the narco-trafficker; and from the time of the Olmec...
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    21,96 €

  • Of Wonders and Wise Men
    Terry Rugeley
    2004 - Harvey L. Johnson Award - Southwest Council of Latin American Studies In the tumultuous decades following Mexico’s independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley ...
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    46,68 €

  • Yucatán’s Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
    Terry Rugeley
    Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest and most successful of these peasant rebellions. Rugeley refutes earlier stud...
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    33,49 €