Rainbow Countries of Central America
Author: Wallace Thompson
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 344
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Author: Wallace Thompson
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 344
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Published: 1978-03-01
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ISBN-13: 9780849025006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alain Chenevière
Publisher: Vilo Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782719104545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis magnificent book explores the very individual geography and culture of the countries of Central America through the lens of Alain Cheneviere, the world renowned photographer.
Author: Ralph Hancock
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel MacCannell
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1780239602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature—a rare, evanescent, and beautiful bridge between subjective experience and objective reality—and no less remarkable as a cultural phenomenon. A symbol of the Left since the German Peasants’ War of the 1520s, it has been adopted by movements for gay rights, the environment, multiculturalism, and peace around the globe, and has inspired poets, artists, and writers including John Keats, Caspar David Friedrich, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, the first of its kind, Daniel MacCannell offers an enlightening and instructive guide to the rainbow’s multicolored relationship with humanity. The scientific “discovery” of the rainbow is a remarkable tale, taking in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Persia, and Islamic Spain. But even as we’ve studied rainbows, adopted their image, and penned odes to them for millennia, rainbows have also been regarded as ominous or even dangerous in myth and religion. In the twentieth century, the rainbow emerged as kitsch, arcing from the musical film version of The Wizard of Oz to 1980s sitcoms and children’s cartoons. Illustrated throughout in prismatic color, MacCannell’s Rainbows explores the full spectrum of rainbows’ nature and meaning, offering insight into what rainbows are and how they work, how we arrived at our current scientific understanding of the phenomenon, and how we have portrayed them in everything from myth to the arts, politics, and popular culture.
Author: Julio Etchart
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Hancock
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Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781104848927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-07-09
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0822381249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history. In January 1932 thousands of indigenous and ladino (non-Indian) rural laborers, provoked by electoral fraud and the repression of strikes, rose up and took control of several municipalities in central and western El Salvador. Within days the military and civilian militias retook the towns and executed thousands of people, most of whom were indigenous. This event, known as la Matanza (the massacre), has received relatively little scholarly attention. In To Rise in Darkness, Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago investigate memories of the massacre and its long-term cultural and political consequences. Gould conducted more than two hundred interviews with survivors of la Matanza and their descendants. He and Lauria-Santiago combine individual accounts with documentary sources from archives in El Salvador, Guatemala, Washington, London, and Moscow. They describe the political, economic, and cultural landscape of El Salvador during the 1920s and early 1930s, and offer a detailed narrative of the uprising and massacre. The authors challenge the prevailing idea that the Communist organizers of the uprising and the rural Indians who participated in it were two distinct groups. Gould and Lauria-Santiago demonstrate that many Communist militants were themselves rural Indians, some of whom had been union activists on the coffee plantations for several years prior to the rebellion. Moreover, by meticulously documenting local variations in class relations, ethnic identity, and political commitment, the authors show that those groups considered “Indian” in western El Salvador were far from homogeneous. The united revolutionary movement of January 1932 emerged out of significant cultural difference and conflict.
Author: Earl Parker Hanson
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 660
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