Michael Edward Stanfield

Of Beasts and Beauty

Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781477302224
• ISBN-10: 1477302220
• Artikelnr.: 41625261

Autorenporträt

Michael Edward Stanfield is Professor of History at the University of San Francisco and author of two other books, including Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850–1933.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Setting
Chapter 2: “La mujer reina pero no gobierna,” 1845–1885
Chapter 3: Bicycle Race, 1885–1914
Chapter 4: Apparent Modernity, 1914–1929
Chapter 5: Liberal Beauty, 1930–1948
Chapter 6: Exclusive Beasts, 1948–1958
Chapter 7: From Miss Universe to the Anti-Reina, 1958–1968
Chapter 8: Static Government, Social Evolution, 1968–1979
Chapter 9: Pulchritude, the Palacio, and Power, 1979–1985
Conclusion and Epilogue to 2011
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index