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This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical
development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the
southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries,
from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of
a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The
distinguished contributors to the volume bring into dialogue
sophisticated new scholarship from an impressive range of
disciplines, including social and cultural history, art history,
legal studies, and performance art. The essays provide an engaging
and original framework for understanding the development of racial
thinking and classification in the region that was once New Spain
and also shed new light on the history of the shifting ties between
Mexico and the United States and the transnational condition of
Latinos in the US today.
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical
development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the
southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries,
from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of
a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The
distinguished contributors to the volume bring into dialogue
sophisticated new scholarship from an impressive range of
disciplines, including social and cultural history, art history,
legal studies, and performance art. The essays provide an engaging
and original framework for understanding the development of racial
thinking and classification in the region that was once New Spain
and also shed new light on the history of the shifting ties between
Mexico and the United States and the transnational condition of
Latinos in the US today.
Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to
interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major composition. She
shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that
mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and,
simultaneously, the watching of that event. The author provides a
reading of the poem in visual-dramatic terms, using the diorama
stage as the vehicle for the poet's field of vision. She then
defines various visual dimensions, the relationships between them,
and the various ways in which they can be seen and understood. Her
interpretation draws on Hardy's autobiography and critical essays.
Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to
interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major composition. She
shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that
mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and,
simultaneously, the watching of that event. The author provides a
reading of the poem in visual-dramatic terms, using the diorama
stage as the vehicle for the poet's field of vision. She then
defines various visual dimensions, the relationships between them,
and the various ways in which they can be seen and understood. Her
interpretation draws on Hardy's autobiography and critical essays.
Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
The internet has always been referred to as the "information
highway" and now many colleges and universities are accessing those
roads to provide degrees, professional certificates and personal
enrichment courses. Many people think about online education, but
do not know where to start. So how do your select the best program?
And then once you have chosen the program, what will make you a
successful student? Is online education really for you? This "how
to" guide will give you the necessary information that is simple to
follow and will assist you in becoming a successful online student.
As "informed consumers," you can then best determine yourself which
program is for you, and actually make your dreams come true!
David Brading is one of the foremost historians of Latin America in
the United Kingdom. The essays in this volume convey the enduring
nature of many of the questions raised by his work. They reflect
the wide range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and
post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state
building in nineteenth- century Mexico and of the problem of
Mexican national identity. The contributions represent a wide
chronological spread from the late seventeenth century to the
twentieth century, as well as geographical diversity (Mexico City,
Queretaro, and Puebla). Part I comprises an autobiographical essay
by David Brading, an appreciation of him by Enrique Florescano, and
an historiographical assessment of Brading's work by Eric Van
Young. Part II gathers together six essays by former students
(Susan Deans-Smith and Ellen Gunnarsdottir) and colleagues (Brian
Hamnett, Marta Garcia Urgarte, Guy Thomson, and Alan Knight). David
A. Brading recently retired from a chair in history at the
University of Cambridge, UK where he directed the Latin American
Centre. He is the author of dozens of articles and a number of
widely praised volumes, including The First America: The Spanish
Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492-1867
(Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Honorable Mention, Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin
American History A government monopoly provides an excellent case
study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of
the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the
later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver
tithe as the most valuable source of government income. This
comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly illuminates many of the
most important themes of eighteenth-century Mexican social and
economic history, from issues of economic growth and the supply of
agricultural credit to rural relations, labor markets, urban
protest and urban workers, class formation, work discipline, and
late colonial political culture. Drawing on exhaustive research of
previously unused archival sources, Susan Deans-Smith examines a
wide range of new questions. Who were the bureaucrats who managed
this colonial state enterprise and what policies did they adopt to
develop it? How profitable were the tobacco manufactories, and how
rational was their organization? What impact did the reorganization
of the tobacco trade have upon those people it affected most-the
tobacco planters and tobacco workers? This research uncovers much
that was not previously known about the Bourbon government's
management of the tobacco monopoly and the problems and limitations
it faced. Deans-Smith finds that there was as much continuity as
change after the monopoly's establishment, and that the popular
response was characterized by accommodation, as well as defiance
and resistance. She argues that the problems experienced by the
monopoly at the beginning of the nineteenth century did not
originate from any simmering, entrenched opposition. Rather, an
emphasis upon political stability and short-term profits prevented
any innovative reforms that might have improved the monopoly's
long-term performance and productivity. With detailed quantitative
data and rare material on the urban working poor of colonial
Mexico, Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers will be important
reading for all students of social, economic, and labor history,
especially of Mexico and Latin America.
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