Of Wonders And Wise Men
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Of Wonders And Wise Men
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Author : Terry Rugeley
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-03-06
Of Wonders And Wise Men written by Terry Rugeley and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-06 with Social Science categories.
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 focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucatán. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people.
The Wise Men
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Author : Walter Isaacson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-06-04
The Wise Men written by Walter Isaacson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The Star Of The Wise Men
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Author : Richard Chenevix Trench
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850
The Star Of The Wise Men written by Richard Chenevix Trench and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with Bible categories.
The Star Of The Wise Men A Commentary On The 2nd Chapter Of St Matthew
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Author : Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801
The Star Of The Wise Men A Commentary On The 2nd Chapter Of St Matthew written by Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1801 with categories.
How The Wise Men Got To Chelm
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Author : Ruth von Bernuth
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-09-13
How The Wise Men Got To Chelm written by Ruth von Bernuth and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The collected tales of these fools, or “wise men,” of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life—as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected. By placing literary Chelm and its “foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day.
Tales Of Alexander And The East
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Author : Beverly Joan Brown Berg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Tales Of Alexander And The East written by Beverly Joan Brown Berg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Alexander the Great (Romances, etc.) categories.
Rebellion Now And Forever
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Author : Terry Rugeley
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-19
Rebellion Now And Forever written by Terry Rugeley and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-19 with History categories.
This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions of the Mexican southeast. Rebellion Now and Forever looks at Yucatán's famous Caste War from the perspective of the vast majority of Hispanics and Maya peasants who did not join in the great ethnic rebellion of 1847. It shows how the history of nonrebel territory was as dramatic and as violent as the front lines of the Caste War, and of greater significance for the larger evolution of Mexican society. The work explores political violence not merely as a method and process, but also as a molder of subsequent institutions and practices.
The Wise Man Of Stainmore With Other Tales Legends Of Olden Time Forming The Third Volume Of Tales And Legends Of Wertmoreland
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Author : John Close (of Kirkby-Stephen.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
The Wise Man Of Stainmore With Other Tales Legends Of Olden Time Forming The Third Volume Of Tales And Legends Of Wertmoreland written by John Close (of Kirkby-Stephen.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with categories.
Book Of Wonders
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Book Of Wonders written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
Radical
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Radical written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Theology categories.