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Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance: A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award)
In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine following dr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru's southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley--and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon--to the city of Arequipa and its airport, eigh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007