“…The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter's book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. …”

“…The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter's book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. …”

“…The International Forests and Water Conference 2018, Valdivia, Chile (http://forestsandwater2018.cl/), a joint effort of the 5th IUFRO International Conference on Forests and Water in a Changing Environment and the Second Latin American Conference on Forests and Water provided a unique forum to examine forest and water issues in Latin America under a global context. This book represents a collection of some of the peer-reviewed papers presented at the conference that were published in a Special Issue of Forests…”

“…This year we had 25 submissions from Asia, Europe and North America. After a rigorous reviewing process, involving at 2-3 referees per paper, 11 papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop, including presentation-only papers. …”

“…Susan Castillo's pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or 'multi-voiced' texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Taking a selection of plays, printed dialogues, travel narratives and lexicographic studies in English, Spanish and French, the book explores both European and indigenous writers of the early Americas. …”

“…It shows how much contemporary notions of sovereignty emerged in the Americas as a response to European imperial crises in the age of revolutions. …”
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“…Talent Management in Latin America updates main HRM topics in Latin America, with a local focus on culture and institutions. …”

“…Talent Management in Latin America updates main HRM topics in Latin America, with a local focus on culture and institutions. …”

“…The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. …”

“…As Lukasik shows, this tension between a model of character grounded in the fluid performances of the self and one grounded in the permanent features of the face would continue to shape not only the representation of social distinction within the novel but, more broadly, the practices of literary production and reception in nineteenth-century America across a wide range of media. The result is a new interdisciplinary interpretation of the rise of the novel in America that reconsiders the political and social aims of the genre during the fifty years following the Revolution. …”

“…Els assajos analitzen els esforços de figures marginals -sobretot dramaturgs i productors no comercials, afro-americans i dones- per dur a terme una ampliació de l'espectre del teatre nord-americà quant a la dramatúrgia, disseny, representació i construcció dramàtica…”
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“…Com tot allò que ha escrit al llarg de les moltes dècades de compromís amb la investigació, aquest assaig sobre la figura de Mark Twain destil·la el que ell mateix denomina 'Coneixement' amb majúscula, doncs és una autèntica apropiació personal de la vida i obra de l'autor nord-americà que, a més de proporcionar-nos plaer, ens capacita per reaccionar amb més sensibilitat davant la gran literatura…”
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“…S'estudia, així, l'entramat polític i cultural que va arribar a reinventar la raó del conflicte: de l'enfrontament al règim autoritari de Fulgencio Batista al desafiament al govern dels Estats Units d'Amèrica, com a centre transcendent de la Revolució cubana…”
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“…Instead, he asks whether it is possible to convert what is best about health care in America into a well functioning system that better serves the entire population. …”

“…In Leon Forrest African America had a figure of the postmodern turn: his work is explored in its own right and for how it takes its place in the context of other reflexive black fiction. …”

“…Este cambio radical de perspectiva,apoyado en la teoría de la transculturación de Fernando Ortiz, anticipó las teorías contemporáneas de creolización, que hablan del proceso de formación cultural de América Latina a partir del intercambio…”

“…Liveris sees where America is losing ground-from innovation to job creation-and explains how we can take back our future. Make It in America is a must-listen for anyone who believes that America's greatest, most productive, most prosperous days are not behind us. …”

“…His (some might say obsequious) relationship with America reflected that view. America was a former colony where the natives had become worthy to rule themselves, but - he felt - still had that tie to Britain. …”

“…Basta esta cita para comprender la idea delbuen gobierno de los Incas descrita por Bartolomé de las Casas: Consideraba (...) la condición e inclinaciones de las gentes, y si entendía que eran orgullosos o inquietos, traía de otros pueblos, mayormente de los que tenía más conocidos y experimentados por fieles y obedientes, aprobados y leales, donde mandaba que morasen y usasen de sus oficios o ejercicios que en su naturaleza usaban, para que los de allí aprendiesen a vivir quietos, y para que, entendiendo quel rey los mandaba poner allí por esta causa, temiesen de hacer novedades, como quien tenía cabe si las espías y testigos que habían luego de avisar al señor, y por consiguiente, de causar en el pueblo inquietud se descuidasen Bartolomé de las Casas navegó con Colón en el segundo viaje y fue uno de los primeros viajeros a las Américas. Llegó a La Española en 1502 y, aunque inicialmente se estableció allí como colono y encomendero, en 1511 un sermón del dominico fray Antonio de Montesinos le convenció de que debía cambiar de vida: en 1515 se incorporó a la orden de los dominicos. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Sánchez Belén -- Aproximación a la imagen de la infanta Maria Teresa de Austria como reina de Francia a través de sus retratos / Margarita de Alfonso Caffanera -- Lo sonoro de la imagen del rey en el contexto de las enetradas reales / Clara Bejarano Pellicer -- Un santo para l grandeza: fiestas jesuitas por la canonización de Francisco de Borja / José Luis Betrán Moya y Doris Moreno Martínez -- América rendida a sus pies. Representación gráfica de la dominación de un continente / Alfredo Bueno Jiménez -- Las galerías de reyes. …”