The Inca World

The Inca World
Title The Inca World PDF eBook
Author Laura Laurencich Minelli
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 248
Release 2000
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780806132211

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This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archeological research and Spanish colonial documentation, provides important insights into many questions and contradictions regarding the Inca Empire. 337 illustrations, 106 in color. 12 maps.

Seeds of Insurrection

Seeds of Insurrection
Title Seeds of Insurrection PDF eBook
Author Manuel Barcia
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 236
Release 2008-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780807133651

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On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient slaves. Yet this makeshift parade never evolved into the violent rebellion the villagers expected. Though the slaves who lived on Cuban coffee and sugar plantations sometimes defied their captors by orchestrating fierce uprisings and committing murder and suicide, they also resisted in less overt ways—by running away, feigning sickness, breaking tools, and by maintaining their own cultures. In Seeds of Insurrection, Manuel Barcia examines many largely overlooked ways in which African and Creole slaves in Cuba defied domination in the first half of the nineteenth century. Ethnic and geographic origins, as well as slaves’ personal experiences, affected their resistance to bondage. Dividing resistance into two broad types—violent and nonviolent—Barcia examines when and why the slaves chose certain forms. Creole slaves grew up in Cuba, for example, so they learned both the language of their ancestors and Spanish, and they came to understand their Spanish masters as few African-born slaves ever could. Consequently, they cleverly used the few rights colonial laws offered them to their advantage. African-born slaves, by contrast, carried with them their memories from home, their religious beliefs, jokes, and songs, and they dealt with enslavement by incorporating this cultural heritage into their everyday activities. Barcia demonstrates the ways in which the slaves made use of the privacy of their huts and barracks and the lack of surveillance in the fields to voice their ideas and opinions—through song, religion, gossip, folktales, and jokes—within an acceptable degree of safety. Relying primarily on transcripts of local and central court proceedings involving slaves, free people of color, slave owners, and witnesses, Barcia reveals the slaves’ view of their world. He also explores the forms of domination practiced by colonial authorities, plantation masters, and overseers, gleaning insight from innovative sources, including medical reports and diaries of rancheadores, as well as public and private correspondence, newspapers, and the contributions of contemporary scholars. In Seeds of Insurrection, Barcia expands the definition of resistance and adds an invaluable dimension to the understanding of slavery in the Americas.

Historical Periodicals Directory

Historical Periodicals Directory
Title Historical Periodicals Directory PDF eBook
Author Eric H. Boehm
Publisher Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 1981-c1986.
Pages 184
Release 1981
Genre Reference
ISBN 9780874360219

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Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education

Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education
Title Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education PDF eBook
Author Martínez-Hita, María
Publisher IGI Global
Pages 360
Release 2022-06-30
Genre Education
ISBN 1668452413

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Research on history education and historical thinking is becoming increasingly relevant internationally. The need for a renewal of history education is not only justified by the epistemology of history itself, but also by the demand for a methodological change in education in general, making students active protagonists in the construction of their learning and based on the development of competencies. Further study on the potential use of gamification within social studies and humanities education is required to understand its benefits and challenges. Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education proposes and analyzes gamification as a pedagogical innovation that can enable the renewal of the teaching and learning process of history, facilitating the active learning of historical thinking concepts while influencing students' conceptions of history as a discipline and as a school subject. Covering key topics such as historical thinking, social sciences, video games, and mobile learning, this reference work is ideal for historians, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Report of the Librarian of Congress

Report of the Librarian of Congress
Title Report of the Librarian of Congress PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 554
Release 1904
Genre Libraries
ISBN

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Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress

Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress
Title Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 562
Release 1904
Genre
ISBN

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Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30

Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30
Title Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 552
Release 1904
Genre
ISBN

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