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Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

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Hybrid cultures strategies for entering and leaving modernity / by García Canclini, Néstor

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Inka human sacrifice and mountain worship strategies for empire unification / by Besom, Thomas, 1960-

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U.S. Army on the Mexican border a historical perspective /

“…Defense, security and strategy series.…”
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Simón Bolívar a life / by Lynch, John, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Out of a Spanish colony -- Lessons from the Age of Reason -- Creole revolution -- War to the death -- Touchstone of the revolution -- New strategy, new front -- Society according to Bolívar -- War and love in the Andes -- The man of problems -- The magic of his prestige -- Journey of disillusion -- The legacy.…”
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Camden after the fall decline and renewal in a post-industrial city / by Gillette, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Shifting power -- pt. 3. Shifting strategy -- pt. 4. Shifting prospects.…”
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Blue coat or powdered wig free people of color in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue / by King, Stewart R., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The free colored in society and the economy -- pt. 3. Group strategies for economic and social advancement.…”
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Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / by Vitiello, Domenic

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline.…”
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The Tira de Tepechpan negotiating place under Aztec and Spanish rule / by Diel, Lori Boornazian, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Tira de Tepechpan : its structure, contributors, and history -- Pre-imperial history -- Imperial history -- Colonial history of painter A -- Colonial histories of painters B, C, and D -- The alphabetic annotations -- Indigenous histories as strategies for survival -- Appendix. Transcription and translation of annotator I's glosses.…”
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Refusing the favor the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 / by González, Deena J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economics of Colonization, 1840-1852 -- 3. Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880 -- 4. …”
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Looking forward comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition /

Table of Contents: “…Fernández -- Gender equality in transition policies : comparative perspectives on Cuba / Mala Htun -- Race, culture, and politics / Alejandro de la Fuente -- Strategy for a Cuban economic transition / Jorge F. …”
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Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes by Corr, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…The catechist and the Quishuar tree : religious taansculturation in the Andean contact zone ; Textual strategies and ritual control in early twentieth-century Salasaca ; Prayer and placemaking in the Andes : staffholders and cultural memory ; Life lessons at a time of death -- Individual acts and personal narratives. …”
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The house by the side of the road the Selma civil rights movement / by Jackson, Richie Jean Sherrod, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…The blueprint of my life and the house -- Up on the hill -- Preparation for a life's journey -- Choosing a mate -- The foundation is laid -- The port in the storm -- Martin Luther King Jr. the man -- Storm clouds roll over Selma -- Hosting a movement -- Dangerous days -- Uncle Martin -- Shelter for the spirit -- Our neighborhood -- Guests in the house -- Other voices in the house -- The sanctuary -- Vital staff -- Perilous times -- Women in the movement -- Other support systems -- Nobel Prize winners in the house -- Soldiers in the storm -- Preparing for the march -- Strategy -- The fires burn -- On our way -- No room in the inn -- Marching orders -- A concert for the masses -- The final journey -- Memories and echoes of Martin -- Appendix 1: Selma and area counties -- Appendix 2: Timeline for the Selma Voting Rights Campaign of 1965 -- Appendix 3: Cabbage recipe.…”
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Maya intellectual renaissance identity, representation, and leadership / by Montejo, Victor, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maya identity and interethnic relations -- Pan-Mayanism : the complexity of Maya culture and the process of self-representation -- Representation via ethnography : mapping the Maya image in a Guatemalan primary-school social-studies textbook -- The multiplicity of Maya voices : Maya leadership and the politics of self-representation -- Truth, human rights, and representation : the case of Rigoberta Menchú -- The ethnohistory of Maya leadership -- Theoretical basis and strategies for Maya leadership -- Maya ways of knowing : modern Maya and the elders -- Leadership and Maya intellectuality -- Indigenous rights, security, and democracy in the Americas : the Guatemalan situation -- The twenty-first century and the future of the Maya in Guatemala.…”
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The other Missouri history populists, prostitutes, and regular folk /

Table of Contents: “…Steiner -- Survival strategies of farm laborers in the Missouri bootheel, 1900-1958 / Bonnie Stepenoff -- Constance Runcie and the Runcie Club of St. …”
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Highland Indians and the state in modern Ecuador /

Table of Contents: “…Selmeski -- Same state, different histories, diverse strategies : the Ecuadorian Amazon / Juliet R. Erazo -- From indigenismo to indigenous movements in Ecuador and Mexico / Shannan L. …”
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Classic Maya provincial politics Xunantunich and its hinterlands /

Table of Contents: “…Leventhal -- The carved monuments and inscriptions of Xunantunich : implications for terminal classic sociopolitical relationships in the Belize Valley / Christophe Helmke, Jaime Awe, and Nikolai Grube -- Monumental building programs and changing political strategies at Xunantunich / Thomas R. Jamison -- Shifting political dynamics as seen from the Xunantunich palace / Jason Yaeger -- Elite craft production of stone drills and slate at Group D, Xunantunich / Jennifer B. …”
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The Maya world /

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Africans to Spanish America expanding the diaspora /

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Encounters in avalanche country : a history of survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 / by Di Stefano, Diana L.

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