Porcelain production in the Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) region of western Bohemia is featured here. American importers of the New York firm Larzarus Straus & Sons financed the creation of the Marx & Gutherz factory in 1884. It later became known as the Oscar & Edgar Gutherz Royal Austria factory. Over 1000 color photographs and illustrations demonstrate the rich variety of porcelain items produced by the factory between 1889 and 1918.\nThe Gutherz factory exported factory-decorated ware and large amounts of undecorated porcelain, known as "whitewall" to satisfy interest in amateur porcelain painting in America. The methods used to decorate and market Royal Austria porcelain are explained and American hand-decorated pieces are presented, making the book an invaluable reference for those who purchase, sell, or have inherited this fine tableware. \nThe plate blanks are identified, categorized, and illustrated in over 100 patterns. Many shapes of dinnerware, cups and saucers, and hollowware handles are shown for the first time. A list of the numbered molds used to create hundreds of shapes is unique.

Royal Austria Porcelain (Schiffer Books)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Henderson, James D.

Antiques & Collectibles

Schiffer

This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American) traffickers began requesting cocaine. This book focuses on the decades of crime and violence the illegal drug trade brought to Colombia and how this social upset was ended in the early 2000s. Six chapters detail the Medellin and Cali cartels' war against the Colombian government, the revolutionary guerrillas' war against the government, the war that paramilitary groups conducted against the guerrillas, and the way in which the government finally put a stop to the cartel-financed bloodshed. In conclusion, the author assesses Colombia's progress and prospects since the end of the violence claimed the lives of some 300,000 between 1975 and 2008.

Colombia's Narcotics Nightmare: How the Drug Trade Destroyed Peace

History

Americas

McFarland Company

"The research involved in putting this manuscript together is truly awesome and involves a major synthesis of Colombian political, economic, urban, and social history which has not been achieved to date either in Spanish or in English."-- Maurice P. Brungardt, Loyola University of New Orleans"Henderson's life-and-times study of Laureano Gómez provides a cogent analysis of a rapidly modernizing Colombia as well as a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful 20th-century Latin American conservative thinkers and politicians."-- Jane M. Rausch, University of Massachusetts, AmherstThe life of Laureano Gómez (1889-1965), Colombia’s combative Conservative politician and reviled public figure, serves as the backdrop for this modern history of one of the hemisphere's least understood nations. Tracing the complex process of development in Colombia, James Henderson explores the civil violence that defined the Gómez era even as the country experienced economic growth unparalleled in the rest of the Americas.Gómez was a consummate debater, a spellbinding orator, and an influential newspaper editor. Early in his career he was a thorn in the side of Liberals and Conservatives alike, while in later years he led the Conservative opposition in Congress. He made and unmade presidents, served as president himself, and all the while figured prominently in Colombia’s transition to modernity.Henderson gives us the best and worst of Gómez and his adversaries during this era, a time of alternating political peace and progress, punctuated by spells of extremist invective and bloody violence. Thus he shows that much of recent Colombian history is rooted in developments from the Gómez years.Few Colombians can speak calmly of Gómez, and many blame him for the violence that plagued the country from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s. Henderson’s objective and thorough discussion exposes the myths and assumptions surrounding Gómez and offers especially effective analysis of his writings, speeches, congressional debates, and editorials (as well as his rejoinders, one-liners, and put-downs, classics in the lexicon of Colombian history). Henderson also chronicles the titanic political rivalry between Gómez and Alfonso López Pumarejo, an arch-Liberal, showing how the two men who began their careers as friends became bitter enemies and ultimately led Colombia into the fratricidal civil war known as La Violencia.This important history of Colombia’s political, economic, urban, and social life will become the definitive study of the nation during its critical period of modernization.James D. Henderson, professor of international studies at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, is general editor of A Reference Guide to Latin American History. He has written two other books on 20th-century Colombia, both best-sellers in their Colombian Spanish-language editions.

Modernization in Colombia: The Laureano Gómez Years, 1889-1965

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University Press of Florida

Paperback 
Publisher: Burnham Inc Pub (February 1979) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0882295969 
ISBN-13: 978-0882295961 
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches 
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces

Ten Notable Women of Latin America

Community & Culture

Burnham Inc Pub.

Laureano Gómez was president of Colombia in the early 1950s until overthrown by a military coup. He was also, for some fifty years, the leading exponent of Latin American conservatism, a political philosophy with roots in both nineteenth–century politics and religion. Focusing on Gómez, and other prominent conservative politicians, Henderson traces the evolution of Latin American conservatism and demonstrates the scope of its influence throughout the continent. While much has been written about particular Marxist movements and right–wing regimes in contemporary Latin America, little attention has been devoted, in recent years, to the more moderate political institutions and individuals which dominate twentieth–century Latin America. This first account of Latin American conservatism should be of interest to all students of the history and politics of the region.

Conservative Thought in Twentieth Century Latin America: The Ideas of Laureano Gomez (Ohio RIS Latin America Series, No. 13) (Volume 13)

Ohio University Press

Riots & Disturbances in Correctional Institutions: Causes, Preventive Measures, and Methods of Controlling

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Amer Correctional Assn

Protective Custody Management in Adult Correctional Facilities: A Discussion of Causes, Conditions, Attitudes, and Alternatives

Phillips, Richard L.

National Institute of Corrections (U. S.)

Guidelines for the Development of a Security Program

Rauch, Hardy

Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America

Henderson, Linda R.

Litrel, Suzanne M.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Review\nThis book is an excellent teaching tool due to its breadth of coverage of Latin America, its informed description of the women’s roles in each era, and its accessible narrative. I assigned the earlier version of this book in my survey classes for years, and students inevitably cited it as their favorite book. In a field remarkably bereft of readable textbooks, Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America is a rare gem—a volume guaranteed to engage the attention and enthusiasm of undergraduates. -- Jane M. Rausch, emerita, University of Massachusetts Amherst\nA useful collection of important biographies that offers an introduction to a history of enormous complexity and, at the same time, provides a highly usable entree into the rapidly expanding historiography of women in Latin America. -- Louis A. Pérez Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\nThis lively volume is much more than just a biographical sketch of the lives of women in colonial Latin America. Rather, the text places ten highly influential women of differing ethnic, racial, and social backgrounds into their rightful place in space and time. Each chapter exquisitely studies how these women maintained agency over their lives while contextualizing them in the often harsh realities of the colonial world. Beautifully narrated and highly readable, the book moves swiftly and will quickly engage high school and undergraduate students. -- Bridget María Chesterton, SUNY Buffalo State\nIn the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway. The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America. 
This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history. The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds. Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.

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