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In this historical study, Lara Medina examines the early development and continuing influence of Las Hermanas, a feminist organization established in 1971 to counter the patriarchy and Eurocentrism of the U.S. Catholic Church. Medina weaves archival research and oral interviews into a cohesive narrative that highlights the keen ethnic and political awareness among the movement's leaders and participants. Medina also illuminates the strides made by Las Hermanas in undermining and reorienting the male-dominated structure of both the Catholic ministry and the Chicano civil rights movement. By...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

Invocado por todos sus gobiernos, hecho suyo por los más diversos y hasta contrapuestos sectores, Simón Bolívar atraviesa la historia venezolana. Es una sombra bajo la que todos quieren estar, una imagen que cada uno quiere a su lado. Tanto como sus ideas y sus batallas, la épica tejida a su alrededor es una inspiración que todos evocan y un premio que todos codician. Este libro es un recorrido por varias estaciones del culto bolivariano que analiza, a través de episodios concretos, ese fenómeno ya anunciado por otros autores de entidad, como Germán Carrera Damas y Luis Castro Leiva....

La organizacion magisterial, la intervencion del Estado en las escuelas particulares, eclesiasticas y publicas, el desayuno escolar, la educacion civica y la ensenanza activa que hoy parecen tan nuevos, son aqui el objeto de estudio.