Best Espejo Podcasts (2024)

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Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023) 53:53

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In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien foregrounds the racial and religious meanings of surgery to draw important connections between historical and contemporary politics regarding fetal and maternal healthcare. She traces practices of caesarean …

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Semanforash: Live in Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany 1979

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023) 39:32

6d ago39:32

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Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia, 2023) shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities. Dr.…

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Paula S. De Vos, "Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020) 1:10:55

11d ago1:10:55

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Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) by Dr. Paula S. De Vos examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home rem…

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Los Chasquis 7:30

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Los correos humanos de la historia, los famosos "Los chasquis", más que simples mensajeros, fueron mensajeros del conocimiento, la cultura y la unidad, dejaron su legado para la humanidad.

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La Guayusa 4:58

28d ago4:58

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La Guayusa: Un viaje cultural a través de la selva amazónica.

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Ramón Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024) 31:26

1M ago31:26

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Ramón Espejo's book The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues (Legenda, 2024) delves into the fascinating journey of American drama in Catalonia, exploring how the theatrical output of a world superpower has impacted (and transformed) the stages of an allegedly minor actor in the cultural scen…

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Stephanie Joy Mawson, "Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines" (Cornell UP, 2023) 47:34

1M ago47:34

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"When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers of people paying tribute to the Spanish crown. This suggests an uncomplicated story of an easy imposition of Spanish sovereignty. But as Stephanie Mawson shows in her book, Incomplete Conquests: The …

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El boabab 3:01

1M ago3:01

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El baobab es más que un simple árbol; es una parte integral de la cultura y las tradiciones africanas. A menudo se considera un árbol sagrado, un lugar de reunión para las comunidades y un símbolo de fuerza y sabiduría.

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Música Chichimeca, de Comunidades Indígenas de Baja California Sur, Mayas Peninsulares y Otomí

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Anna Brinkman, "Balancing Strategy: Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 55:40

2M ago55:40

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What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? In Balancing Strategy: Seapower, Neutrality, and Prize-Law in the Seven Years' War (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Dr. Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to explore how Britain worked to shape maritime int…

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Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 40:15

2M ago40:15

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In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative path to emancipation. Drawing on understudied archives, this pathbreaking work, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations (Cambridge UP, 2022) unearths a new history of Black…

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Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023) 31:37

2M ago31:37

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All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the contours of philosophical-scientific inquiry that Maimonides replaced? A fairly large array of diverse texts have been studied, but no comprehensive picture has yet emerged. The newly discovered Hebre…

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La Ruleta on 05/10/24

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By KBOO Community Radio

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La cumbia 3:28

2M ago3:28

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La cumbia, un vibrante género musical y baile tradicional, tiene sus raíces en la costa Caribe colombiana. Su origen exacto sigue siendo tema de debate, pero se reconoce como producto del rico mestizaje cultural que se dio durante la época colonial española.

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Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022) 1:08:58

2M ago1:08:58

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The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic, and while humans have been traversing its current-driven maritime highways for thousands of years, its sheer scale proved an obstacle to early European imperial powers. Enter Lope Martin, a forgotten Afro-Portuguese ship pilot heretofore unheralded by historians. In Conquering the Pacific: An Unk…

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Aztlán, Helicon, Blaster (Demo)

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Juliet B. Wiersema, "The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific Lowlands" (U Texas Press, 2024) 56:11

2M ago56:11

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During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada’s economy yet this Pacific frontier in today’s Colombia was considered the “periphery of the periphery.” Infamous for its fierce, unconquered Indigenous inhabitants and its …

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Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023) 55:40

2M ago55:40

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Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tabea Alexa Linhard chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer An…

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La historia del tabaco 3:44

3M ago3:44

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¿Sabías como llegó el tabaco a Europa?

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Amanda Wunder, "Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV" (Yale UP, 2024) 52:42

3M ago52:42

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Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (Yale University Press, 2024) by Dr. Amanda Wunder is the first archival study of dress at the court of Philip IV, as told through the life and work of royal tailor Mateo Aguado. Tailor to the queens of Spain from 1630 to 1672, Aguado designed the striking dresses that gave…

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Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023) 49:11

3M ago49:11

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Debby Koren's book Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa (Academic Studies Press, 2023) contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communiti…

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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024) 44:44

3M ago44:44

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Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to …

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024) 1:01:59

3M ago1:01:59

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Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? In How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year History (Reaktion, 2024) Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Dr. Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers we…

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Capitán Pijama

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Una noche con El Capitán Pijama, la música de Jesús Bojalil. Capitán Pijama y La Orquesta Roja de Cucamonga, con "En el Purgatorio No Sirven Ravioles" y "Music for Monsters", de 1994.By KBOO Community Radio

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Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023) 40:20

3M ago40:20

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During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-Andalus. Ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties, al-Andalus came to be a shorthand for a legendary place where people from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in peace. That reputation is not enti…

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Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012) 53:51

3M ago53:51

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In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to his inquisitors as his brush with mortality is to us: the condemned man described a Jewish conspiracy to persuade recent converts to denounce their newfo…

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 2, Ep. 10 Abdul Sesay 28:13

3M ago28:13

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Host: Katherine Marshall Woods, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist whose interest lie in the intersection of psychology and media. Dr. Marshall Woods consults with screenwriters and authors to accurately integrate psychological aspects into plots, provides character analyses and assistance with set accuracy. She is also a professor at The G…

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 2, Ep. 9 Asia Simone 31:02

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Actor, musician and producer Asia Simone discusses the emotional and psychological aspects of her short film, Happy Hour Live. She is joined in the interview by the film’s co-creator, director and puppeteer Ryan DeForeest.By psychmindedmedia

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Best Psychology in Film Season 2, Ep.8 Liza Jessie Peterson 27:25

3M ago27:25

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Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison (formerly known as A Peculiar Silence), presented by MTV Documentary Films, tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play "The Peculiar Patriot" was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison. Directed and edited by …

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Luis O’Cadiz y Su Grupo; Ronny: Espejos de La Memoria

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Best Psychology In Film Season 2, Ep. 7 Walter Schlomann 28:56

4M ago28:56

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Ezra's story is unique. Teenage suicide isn't. Ezra was a gifted artist whose passions and voice are imprinted in his drawings, collages, paintings, musical compositions, and journals. As we unravel the story of Ezra’s life and death, we gain a heartfelt, personal, no-holds-barred insight into teenage suicide and surviving its aftermath. This movin…

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 2, Ep. 6 Adam Joel 27:40

4M ago27:40

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Nobody told me what “emotional abuse” was until after I had already experienced it for four years straight. My girlfriend at the time was a very loving person, but she also manipulated me, locked me out of the house, and pressured me into ending every female friendship that I had. Hollywood movies teach us that abuse only “counts” if you see blood …

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Raanan Rein and Susanne Zepp-Zwirner, "Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War" (Routledge, 2024) 1:23:43

4M ago1:23:43

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Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War (Routledge, 2024) is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in…

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Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019) 1:19:45

4M ago1:19:45

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Carmen Fracchia's book Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700 (Oxford UP, 2019) is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens throug…

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 2, Ep. 5 Tanecia Britt 29:06

4M ago29:06

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Founded in 2009, by a black female filmmaker that initially wanted to create a space for like-minded creatives to screen their projects and network, soon evolved into the DMV International Film Festival. DMVIFF's mission is to sustainably develop, unite, discover and enrich the cinema talents in and of the DC, MD, VA, and Internationally. In additi…

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Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024) 52:45

4M ago52:45

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Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain’s Asian and American colonies. Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, these Spanish trading ships also facilitated the earliest migrations and displacements of Asian peoples to the Americas. Hailing from Gujarat, Nagas…

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 2, Ep. 4 Randy Messersmith 30:15

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Host Katherine Marshall Woods, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist whose interest lie in the intersection of psychology and media talks with Randy Messersmith about his award winning film Saving Faith.By psychmindedmedia

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 3, Ep. 3 Aaron Goodmiller & Eric Espejo 29:45

4M ago29:45

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An Interview with Aaron Goodmiller & Eric Espejo.By psychmindedmedia

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Best Psychology in Film, Season 2, Ep. 2 Dr. Tamika Damond 26:51

4M ago26:51

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Dr.Tamika Damond, clinical psychologist at Believe Psychology Group, Inc. and founder of Believe Psychology Film Festival & Screenwriting Contest discusses the three-day festival that celebrates psychology in film.By psychmindedmedia

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Best Psychology in Film Season 2, Ep. 1 Craig Williams 30:38

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Craig T. Williams is a writer/producer/editor at Red Wall Productions, a film production company he runs with his wife and partner, Rosalyn Coleman Williams. Craig has produced over 50 film projects including documentaries, narrative short films, and web series. He has empowered artists, assisting writers, actors and filmmakers develop their craft …

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Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019) 1:10:04

4M ago1:10:04

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Ariel Mae Lambe’s new book No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) is a history of transnational Cuban activists who mobilized in the mid-1930s to fight fascism both in Cuba and beyond. A wide variety of civic and political groups, including Communists, anarchists, Freemasons…

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Aristeo en Vivo en el Estadio de Beisbol de Nogales Arizona, 1982

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024) 57:06

5M ago57:06

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There’s a popular folk hero in Puebla, Mexico—Catarina de San Juan, who Mexicans hailed as a devoted religious figure after her death in 1688. She’s credited with creating the China Poblana dress, a connection of dubious historical veracity made several centuries after her death. But Catarina is one of Mexico’s most famous “chinos”—despite the fact…

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La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata; La Verdadera Vocación de Magdalena; Adiós a Los Beatles

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Gerardo Calderón: Artesano de la Música

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Programa dedicado a nuestro querido amigo Gerardo CalderónBy KBOO Community Radio

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Heriberto Montes de Oca: Caballero Águla; Morphosis in Blue

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By KBOO Community Radio

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Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017) 1:51:07

6M ago1:51:07

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A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 (Hurst, 2017) is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr's riveting and "richly detailed" (Choice) chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. Months after King Philip III of Spain signed an e…

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Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024) 1:00:38

6M ago1:00:38

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In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024), Dr. Marcy Norton offers a dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christ…

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Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:38:20

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In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Spanish nativist factions zealously attacked them as unequal and unqualified, unleashing an intense political battle that lasted almost two decades.…

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