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Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
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Remembering the hacienda : religion, authority, and social change in highland Ecuador
From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa-Quichua-speaking indigenous people-worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the hacienda's contemporary legacy. Lyons lived for three years in a Runa village and conducted in-depth interviews with elderly former hacienda laborers. He combines their wrenching accounts with archival evidence to paint an astonishing portrait of daily life on haciendas. Lyons also develops an innovative analysis of hacienda discipline and authority relations. Remembering the Hacienda explains the role of religion as well as the reshaping of Runa culture and identity under the impact of land reform and liberation theology. This beautifully written book is a major contribution to the understanding of social control and domination. It will be valuable reading for a broad audience in anthropology, history, Latin American studies, and religious studies.
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The Church Land Programme and Black Theology of Liberation: Solidarity and Suggestions for an Innovative Methodology
Black Theology of Liberation, particularly in South Africa, has always been for Black people in the world and produced theological reflections through the lens of Black people. In the evolving scholarship on BTL, there has been challenges in its middle class positionality toward the Black poor and oppressed. The Church Land Programme in Pietermaritzburg was presented with a similar challenge on its positionality in its work on land reform. The CLP’s shift from an organisation working on behalf of the Black poor to working with them may provide suggestions for BTL’s methodology and positionality. This article analyses the Church Land Programme’s community-led publications and how these provide innovative methodological choices for Black Theology of Liberation scholars. Firstly, it explores the Church Land Programme’s history, strategic shifts, and publication partnerships within communities. Secondly, is analyses the publications’ use of stories from within communities. Finally, it discusses new methodological choices in Black Theology of Liberation through lessons from the Church Land Programme’s shift and resultant publications. The results reveal that narratives from below can be promoted in Black Theology of Liberation’s methodology.
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The Jesuits' Estate Question, 1760-1888
More than a hundred years of trouble followed the land grant of half a million acres along the St. Lawrence River to the Jesuits. Professor Dalton provides a badly needed investigation into this area of Canadian history.
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The restitution of Roman Catholic Church land to indigenous people in post-apartheid South Africa: 1994–2014
\\r\\n The political and legal perspectives on and understanding of the process of land reform in South Africa differ from the church’s vision and understanding on what land reform entails. Currently,\\r\\n land reform through the restitution of church land to indigenous people is still not solved to all party’s satisfaction, although this issue is on the table since 1994. The research focuses on\\r\\n the actions by the Roman Catholic Church that argued that ‘society ensures justice when it provides the conditions that allow associations or individuals to obtain what is their due, according\\r\\n to their nature’ (O’Neil & Black 2004; O’Brien & Shannon 2006). The church also suggests that land is an arable resource that gives people access to certain basic needs necessary for\\r\\n them to lead a dignified life. This article discusses and evaluates the outcomes of the restitution of Catholic Church land since 1994–2014. It also addresses the contribution by the Catholic\\r\\n Church to land restitution during the period of 1994 –2014 to advocate and encourage further participation in the land reform programme. In light of this reality, one can ask whether the\\r\\n Catholic Church can bring about positive influence to the present challenges facing the land reform programme. Positive examples of the trainings and workshops conducted by the church within\\r\\n different communities are showcased to note possible future structures for dealing with land restitution from the church’s perspective.\\r\\n
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GRECIAN CHAIRS AT ST PANCRAS NEW CHURCH
St. Pancras New Church, Euston, typifies the Greek Revival at its zenith in Great Britain in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. It was built between 1819 and 1822. Two pairs of chairs that survive, one with arms and the other without, are made of stained oak. The throne-like armchairs could claim to be among the most Grecian pieces of English furniture to survive. The chairs, particularly the armchairs, can clearly be identified with Henry William Inwood and be regarded as notable fruits of his researches in Greece.
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Land and Family
With a special emphasis on the exchange of land between medieval servile tenants--especially from the 13th century onward--this scholarly examination of the peasant land market of the Middle Ages explores the identification of peasant families with particular lands to which they had a hereditary right.
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Remembering the Hacienda
From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa-Quichua-speaking indigenous people-worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. InRemembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the hacienda's contemporary legacy.
Lyons lived for three years in a Runa village and conducted in-depth interviews with elderly former hacienda laborers. He combines their wrenching accounts with archival evidence to paint an astonishing portrait of daily life on haciendas. Lyons also develops an innovative analysis of hacienda discipline and authority relations.Remembering the Haciendaexplains the role of religion as well as the reshaping of Runa culture and identity under the impact of land reform and liberation theology.
This beautifully written book is a major contribution to the understanding of social control and domination. It will be valuable reading for a broad audience in anthropology, history, Latin American studies, and religious studies.
eBook
Landed Property of Churches and Denominational Associations in Poland
Historical factors are presented that have determined landed property belonging to churches and denominational associations in Poland. The article then moves to post-war times to discuss the size and structure of church property resources in 1950, before its appropriation by the State in 1952, and after its restoration to the ecclesiastical owners following the systemic transformation of 1989. The form and ways of recovery of church property are discussed, as well as its present size, structure and distribution.
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