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Ward, Thomas

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European colonialism—and only then moves on to the sixteenth-century Spanish arrival and its impact. To form a clearer picture of precolonial Latin America, Thomas Ward reads between the lines in the “Chronicles of the Indies,” filling in the blanks with information derived from archaeology, anthropology, genetics, and common-sense logic. Although he finds fascinating points of comparison among the K’iche’ Maya in Central America, the polities (señoríos) of Colombia, and the Chimú of the northern Peruvian coast, Ward focuses on two of the best-known peoples: the Nahua (Aztec) of Central Mexico and the Inka of the Andes. His study privileges indigenous-identified authors such as Diego Muñoz Camargo, Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala while it also consults Spanish chroniclers like Hernán Cortés, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Pedro Cieza de León, and Bartolomé de las Casas. The nation-forming processes that Ward theorizes feature two forms of cultural appropriation: the horizontal, in which nations appropriate people and customs from adjacent cultures, and the vertical, in which nations dig into their own past to fortify their concept of exceptionality. In defining these processes, Ward eschews the most common measure, race, instead opting for the Nahua altepetl, the Inka panaka, and the K’iche’ amaq’. His work thus approaches the nation both as the indigenous people conceptualized it and with terminology that would have been familiar to them before and after contact with the Spanish. The result is a truly decolonial account of the formation and organization of Latin American nations, one that puts the indigenous perspective at its center.

The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity

History

Americas

University of Oklahoma Press

González Prada, Manuel, 1844-1918--Political and social views. González Prada, Manuel, 1844-1918 Anarchism. Power (Social sciences) Anarchism. Political and social views. Power (Social sciences).Comparision of essays and poetry.Modernismo.

La anarqua inmanentista de Manuel Gonzalez Prada

Literature & Fiction

Thomas, Ward

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

This text is a rigorous introduction to ergodic theory, developing the machinery of conditional measures and expectations, mixing, and recurrence. 
Beginning by developing the basics of ergodic theory and progressing to describe some recent applications to number theory, this book goes beyond the standard texts in this topic. Applications include Weyl's polynomial equidistribution theorem, the ergodic proof of Szemeredi's theorem, the connection between the continued fraction map and the modular surface, and a proof of the equidistribution of horocycle orbits. 
Ergodic Theory with a view towards Number Theory will appeal to mathematicians with some standard background in measure theory and functional analysis. No background in ergodic theory or Lie theory is assumed, and a number of exercises and hints to problems are included, making this the perfect companion for graduate students and researchers in ergodic theory, homogenous dynamics or number theory.

Ergodic Theory: with a view towards Number Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 259) (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 259)

Einsiedler, Manfred

Reference

Springer

Ergodic Theory: with a view towards Number Theory

Science & Math

Mathematics

Little Sisters, Volume 1

This collection of short stories showcases the talents of new mystery writers from across the USA and the UK. Though neither connected with nor endorsed by Sisters in Crime, as the title suggests it was inspired by that fine organization, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Parker, Heather

Chen, Sarah M.

Degani, Gay

Miller, Loretta Scott

Piche, Kathleen

Bartos-Pool, Gayle

Houlihan, Shelley

Morin, Patricia L.

Kingsbury, Susan Lynn

Mystery

Shannon Road Press

Interlander

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Tumblar House

An Interesting Controversy with Mr. Ritschel, Vicar of Hexham

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