Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195124323
- eISBN:
- 9780199784561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195124324.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter presents a study of messianic leaders, beginning with a general discussion of the supernatural means by which messianic power is acquired and maintained. Subsequent sections explore the ...
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This chapter presents a study of messianic leaders, beginning with a general discussion of the supernatural means by which messianic power is acquired and maintained. Subsequent sections explore the dialogical relation between the charismatic and his followers, and the catastrophic consequences when the charismatic’s promises are broken. The case studies focus on Lope de Aguirre, Simón Bolívar, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Juan and Evita Perón, the messiahs of Brazil (including Antonio Conselheiro), and Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal.Less
This chapter presents a study of messianic leaders, beginning with a general discussion of the supernatural means by which messianic power is acquired and maintained. Subsequent sections explore the dialogical relation between the charismatic and his followers, and the catastrophic consequences when the charismatic’s promises are broken. The case studies focus on Lope de Aguirre, Simón Bolívar, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Juan and Evita Perón, the messiahs of Brazil (including Antonio Conselheiro), and Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal.
César J. Ayala
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807847886
- eISBN:
- 9781469605050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807867976_ayala.13
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter describes how sugar production is practically nonexistent today in Puerto Rico. Between 1950 and 1960, the Constancia mill in Ponce, Central San Jose, Pasto Viejo in Humacao, and ...
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This chapter describes how sugar production is practically nonexistent today in Puerto Rico. Between 1950 and 1960, the Constancia mill in Ponce, Central San Jose, Pasto Viejo in Humacao, and Centrales Rochelaise and Victoria closed. In the first half of the 1960s, El Ejemplo, Guamani, Juanita, and Plazuela shut down. Centrales Canovanas, Cayey, Machete, Rio Llano, Ruhna, San Vicente, Santa Juana, and Soller all closed between 1965 and 1970. Cortada, Juncos, Lafayette, Los Canos, and Monserrate closed between 1970 and 1975. The giants of the industry, which were established in the first decade after the U.S. occupation of the island and controlled much of the wealth of the insular economy for decades, collapsed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Central Fajardo of the Fajardo Sugar Company closed in 1978. Central Guanica, which in the first decade of the century had been the largest sugar mill in the world, closed in 1982. Central Aguirre, whose yearly dividends of 50 percent to its owners earned it the title of “Drake's Treasure” in the 1930s, stopped grinding in 1991.Less
This chapter describes how sugar production is practically nonexistent today in Puerto Rico. Between 1950 and 1960, the Constancia mill in Ponce, Central San Jose, Pasto Viejo in Humacao, and Centrales Rochelaise and Victoria closed. In the first half of the 1960s, El Ejemplo, Guamani, Juanita, and Plazuela shut down. Centrales Canovanas, Cayey, Machete, Rio Llano, Ruhna, San Vicente, Santa Juana, and Soller all closed between 1965 and 1970. Cortada, Juncos, Lafayette, Los Canos, and Monserrate closed between 1970 and 1975. The giants of the industry, which were established in the first decade after the U.S. occupation of the island and controlled much of the wealth of the insular economy for decades, collapsed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Central Fajardo of the Fajardo Sugar Company closed in 1978. Central Guanica, which in the first decade of the century had been the largest sugar mill in the world, closed in 1982. Central Aguirre, whose yearly dividends of 50 percent to its owners earned it the title of “Drake's Treasure” in the 1930s, stopped grinding in 1991.
C. J. Alvarez
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226277646
- eISBN:
- 9780226277813
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226277813.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter examines the establishment of the United States-Mexico border, not just as a cartographic construction, but as a joint production of cooperative policing. As U.S.-Mexico relations ...
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This chapter examines the establishment of the United States-Mexico border, not just as a cartographic construction, but as a joint production of cooperative policing. As U.S.-Mexico relations deepened and became more complex in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the borderland transformed into a space of bilateral, if sometimes grudging, consent. By focusing on U.S.-Mexico military campaigns against Apaches and U.S. attempts to quell Mexican political dissidents on American soil, an image emerges of a fledgling bilateral policing apparatus, one in which the police power of both countries is pooled, borrowed, and amplified.Less
This chapter examines the establishment of the United States-Mexico border, not just as a cartographic construction, but as a joint production of cooperative policing. As U.S.-Mexico relations deepened and became more complex in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the borderland transformed into a space of bilateral, if sometimes grudging, consent. By focusing on U.S.-Mexico military campaigns against Apaches and U.S. attempts to quell Mexican political dissidents on American soil, an image emerges of a fledgling bilateral policing apparatus, one in which the police power of both countries is pooled, borrowed, and amplified.
Joshua Lund
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043178
- eISBN:
- 9780252052057
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043178.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Werner Herzog is the first book-length study of Werner Herzog’s American (in the hemispheric sense) work. It is also the first sustained, book-length study on the question of the political in ...
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Werner Herzog is the first book-length study of Werner Herzog’s American (in the hemispheric sense) work. It is also the first sustained, book-length study on the question of the political in Herzog’s work. Finally, as part of a series on contemporary directors, it introduces Herzog’s films through the arc of his long career, about 60 films (and counting) over nearly 60 years. The approach is materialist and postcolonial, with systematic attention paid to the historical impulses surrounding the films, both in terms of their history of representation (the stories that the films tell) and their history of production. Special attention is paid to how Herzog upsets our conventional expectations concerning categories such as capital, race, social class, and gender, and to what end. The specific aesthetic grammar of Herzog is essential, especially insofar as it confronts the viewer with political questions of world-historical significance. Although the book deals with dozens of films from across five decades (roughly 1968-2016), its heart is the 1970s and 1980s, and each chapter revolves around a single masterpiece: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972), Stroszek (1977), Fitzcarraldo (1982), and Cobra Verde (1987). Through these films, Herzog challenges the viewer to rethink the foundational traumas of our liberal capitalist modernity, including discovery and conquest; migration and exploitation; resource extraction; and slavery. The book represents both an introduction to Herzog’s work at large, and a new argument about the significance of his films.Less
Werner Herzog is the first book-length study of Werner Herzog’s American (in the hemispheric sense) work. It is also the first sustained, book-length study on the question of the political in Herzog’s work. Finally, as part of a series on contemporary directors, it introduces Herzog’s films through the arc of his long career, about 60 films (and counting) over nearly 60 years. The approach is materialist and postcolonial, with systematic attention paid to the historical impulses surrounding the films, both in terms of their history of representation (the stories that the films tell) and their history of production. Special attention is paid to how Herzog upsets our conventional expectations concerning categories such as capital, race, social class, and gender, and to what end. The specific aesthetic grammar of Herzog is essential, especially insofar as it confronts the viewer with political questions of world-historical significance. Although the book deals with dozens of films from across five decades (roughly 1968-2016), its heart is the 1970s and 1980s, and each chapter revolves around a single masterpiece: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972), Stroszek (1977), Fitzcarraldo (1982), and Cobra Verde (1987). Through these films, Herzog challenges the viewer to rethink the foundational traumas of our liberal capitalist modernity, including discovery and conquest; migration and exploitation; resource extraction; and slavery. The book represents both an introduction to Herzog’s work at large, and a new argument about the significance of his films.
Joanna Crow
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813044286
- eISBN:
- 9780813046273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813044286.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Chapter 3 analyzes the writings of Chile’s two Nobel laureates, Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, the political machinations of Mapuche caudillo Venancio Coñuepán as he worked his way up through the ...
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Chapter 3 analyzes the writings of Chile’s two Nobel laureates, Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, the political machinations of Mapuche caudillo Venancio Coñuepán as he worked his way up through the corridors of power, and the rise and fall of Mapuche opera singer Rayén Quitral, in order to show how Chile contributed to and was impacted by developments in continental discourses of indigenismo and modernization. It suggests that all four figures managed to blur the boundaries between indigenista and indigenous, as they campaigned to try to make Chilean governments (of Radical Party leader Pedro Aguirre Cerda through to the populist presidency of former army general Carlos Ibáñez) and national society listen to the demands and problems of the Mapuche.Less
Chapter 3 analyzes the writings of Chile’s two Nobel laureates, Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, the political machinations of Mapuche caudillo Venancio Coñuepán as he worked his way up through the corridors of power, and the rise and fall of Mapuche opera singer Rayén Quitral, in order to show how Chile contributed to and was impacted by developments in continental discourses of indigenismo and modernization. It suggests that all four figures managed to blur the boundaries between indigenista and indigenous, as they campaigned to try to make Chilean governments (of Radical Party leader Pedro Aguirre Cerda through to the populist presidency of former army general Carlos Ibáñez) and national society listen to the demands and problems of the Mapuche.
Miroslava Chávez-García
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520271715
- eISBN:
- 9780520951556
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520271715.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This concluding chapter explores the silences that hamper the recovery of voices and the writing of histories of young people, particularly of the young people of color confined to the California ...
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This concluding chapter explores the silences that hamper the recovery of voices and the writing of histories of young people, particularly of the young people of color confined to the California state institutions, and what happened to them before, during, and after institutionalization. Using the oral history of a formerly incarcerated Mexican American man, Frank Aguirre, the chapter explores the problems and possibilities in using oral histories to recover the histories of incarcerated youths and youths of color, many of whom now predominate in state-based juvenile justice systems across the United States. The chapter also explores what became of Frank Aguirre as well as other former reform school inmates once they left their respective reformatories. While many of the males ended up in city jails and state prisons in California and across the country, others married, formed families, and led productive lives, despite the odds against them.Less
This concluding chapter explores the silences that hamper the recovery of voices and the writing of histories of young people, particularly of the young people of color confined to the California state institutions, and what happened to them before, during, and after institutionalization. Using the oral history of a formerly incarcerated Mexican American man, Frank Aguirre, the chapter explores the problems and possibilities in using oral histories to recover the histories of incarcerated youths and youths of color, many of whom now predominate in state-based juvenile justice systems across the United States. The chapter also explores what became of Frank Aguirre as well as other former reform school inmates once they left their respective reformatories. While many of the males ended up in city jails and state prisons in California and across the country, others married, formed families, and led productive lives, despite the odds against them.
Michael Hofmann
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- March 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198848042
- eISBN:
- 9780191915383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198848042.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The chapter presents a reading of probably the most celebrated ship-poem in existence, written exactly one hundred and fifty years ago by a teenaged boy in provincial France who had never seen the ...
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The chapter presents a reading of probably the most celebrated ship-poem in existence, written exactly one hundred and fifty years ago by a teenaged boy in provincial France who had never seen the sea. The poem, in which the boat ‘speaks’, is read as unusually brilliant homework, as autobiography, as showing-off, as prophecy, as an account of empire. The Pyrrhic continuance or persistence of the drowning boat is read as an image of literature itself.Less
The chapter presents a reading of probably the most celebrated ship-poem in existence, written exactly one hundred and fifty years ago by a teenaged boy in provincial France who had never seen the sea. The poem, in which the boat ‘speaks’, is read as unusually brilliant homework, as autobiography, as showing-off, as prophecy, as an account of empire. The Pyrrhic continuance or persistence of the drowning boat is read as an image of literature itself.
