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The Quiche state in Guatemala flourished for several centuries before being destroyed by the conquistadors in 1524. During the early years of the ensuing period, the Quicheans recorded their past history and legends, writing in their own language but using the Latin alphabet. Many of these chronicles have survived, each illuminating various aspects of pre-conquest Quichean culture. Organized in six sections, Quichean Civilization categorizes all the documented sources describing the Quiche Maya.   I. Introduction II. Native Documents III. Primary Spanish Documents IV. Secondary Sources V. Modern Anthropological Sources VI. A Case Study: Título C'oyoi  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 1973.

On July 28, 1857, the Oregon Statesman published an editorial written by George H. Williams, a delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention and Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, that made powerful arguments for rejecting Oregon as a slave state — to preserve the region as a White utopia. In this Primary Document article, Philip Thoennes and Jack Landau provide context for Williams's letter to the editor, published just days before the constitutional convention, which also reprinted in its original form. Thoennes and Landau assert that the letter “offers valuable insight to the logic that prevailed in Oregon's founding as a state that excluded both slavery and free Black people.”

A recent coinage within international relations, “nation branding” designates the process of highlighting a country’s positive characteristics for promotional purposes, using techniques similar to those employed in marketing and public relations. Nation Branding in Modern History takes an innovative approach to illuminating this contested concept, drawing on fascinating case studies in the United States, China, Poland, Suriname, and many other countries, from the nineteenth century to the present. It supplements these empirical contributions with a series of historiographical essays and analyses of key primary documents, making for a rich and multivalent investigation into the nexus of cultural marketing, self-representation, and political power.

We consider a specialization of an untwisted quantum affine algebra of type ADE at a nonzero complex number, which may or may not be a root of unity. The Grothendieck ring of its finite dimensional representations has two bases, simple modules and standard modules. We identify entries of the transition matrix with special values of \"computable\" polynomials, similar to Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. At the same time we \"compute\" q-characters for all simple modules. The result is based on \"computations\" of Betti numbers of graded/cyclic quiver varieties. (The reason why we use \"\" will be explained at the end of the introduction.)

The organization of the store manufacturing accounting was studied. The order of accounting policy formation of the enterprises in the organization of the store accounting. The main outstanding issues related to the store accounting are analyzed. Based on the research, it is established that the accounting is directed at management and accounting policy is one of the elements of the accounting system. So it must be considered in conjunction with management because in modern conditions the focus of accounting policy is the impact on the results of management, in other words making management decisions. In the result of the research the elements of accounting policy in the store accounting organization, information that should be specified in the Order on accounting policy of the enterprise are determined. But it should be noted that the above elements are not exhaustive and the company can expand and supplement them, taking into account their information and technological needs. Based on the analysis of the requisite composition of the primary documents for the accounting of the stocks’ movement and the study of the needs of the enterprise management system, the authors have developed and proposed a new document «Fuel usage statement». It has the following details such as the name of the enterprise, brand and the state number of the car, trailer, cargo information, customer information, fuel consumption, speedometer indicators at the beginning and at the end of the day, the units of measurement, positions, full name and the signatures of responsible persons. The proposed list of details is optimal and contains all the required as well as additional details that are elements of convenience. The usage of this document will ensure that information about the fuel consumption at the enterprise is received. It is necessary to ensure the efficient organization of workflow at all stages of store accounting, to approve the forms of primary documents of the store accounting for the rational organization of the store accounting at the enterprise. Scheduling fuel flow records covers the steps of creating, verifying, processing and storing a document. The created workflow schedule for fuel usage helps to improve the work of the accounting service, to reduce the cases of untimely documents processing, its loss, to reduce the deadlines for reporting, to increase the responsibility of employees at all levels for timely preparation, usage and processing.

This essay situates the publication of Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents in the context of an expanding global interest in modern Arab art as well as the study of modern Arab art as an academic discipline. The essay first examines the implications of the cultivation of a new museum and gallery infrastructure for modern Arab art in the Arab Gulf. It then considers how the academic study of modern Arab art has faced institutional barriers, due largely to the overwhelming academic focus on Ancient Studies and Islamic art. Finally, it suggests that Modern Arab Art in the Arab World provides scholars with a comprehensive textual archive that calls for a historicized approach to theorizing the emergence of modernist aesthetics in Arab visual cultures.

The anthology of primary sources presented in Modern Art in the Arab World reveals a wealth of ideas, attitudes, hopes, fears, and concerns surrounding the many facets of modernism and art. The essays therein provide first-hand accounts of developing art scenes from across the Arab world and their relationships to their audiences on local, national, transnational, and global scales. These documents, many of which have been translated from Arabic or French into English for the first time, offer individual, in situ insights into a broad range of issues pertaining to art in the twentieth century while furnishing readers with numerous threads that connect these geographies with changes through time. Four matters in particular – the centrality of translation, print media, art, and image management to modernization – permeate this anthology's content and will be explored further in the following essay.

In Colombia and its border countries meets multiple factors that affect societies and spaces in these areas. This invites social scientists social to deepen their understanding, addressing issues such as everyday life, land tenure and national identity. In this context, the current research was to identify and describe primary sources located in the cities of Quito, Tulcán, Guayaquil, Ipiales and Bogotá, in order to have a database to serve as a tool to understand and analyze consistently the past. Thus, the identified and described evidence base regarding this initiative provides a clear picture of the size, nature and location of a collection composed of 2420 pieces. Also, the work of documentary description allowed thematic series grouping, which outline their importance for research into the political, social and material life on the border of Colombia and Ecuador; the economic and administrative contingencies own border crossing; consular services; customs administration and joints and political processes (elections, party rivalries, regime changes, turns, etc.) that affected the lives of these societies.