{"product_id":"spectacular-wealth-the-festivals-of-colonial-south-american-mining-towns-hardback-9781477310502","title":"Spectacular Wealth; The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (Hardback) 9781477310502","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpectacular Wealth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa Voigt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477310502, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e237 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"In this carefully researched and thoughtfully crafted book, Lisa Voigt makes a compelling case against JosÉ Antonio Maravall's argument that civic festivals were among the key practices used by church and crown to direct the culture of the Hispanic world during the Baroque period.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Bulletin of the Comediantes) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[A] richly researched, methodologically original, and lucidly-written study of eighteenth-century Baroque festival culture in South America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpectacular Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptionally well-documented and beautifully written book. In sum: a model of critical clarity.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Renaissance Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpectacular Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us to analyze the multiplicity of the interventions and interpretations enacted in these festivals and to transcend the borders of any one empire on our scholarship.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Hispanic American Historical Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A well-constructed and complex narrative...Voigt has succeeded in bringing together first-hand eighteenth-century festival accounts with secondary sources and theories on diverse aspects of culture in colonial South America into a seamless narrative.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Portuguese Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An important contribution to the discussion of race, religion, and wealth in colonial Latin America seen through festive cultural celebrations…Voigt does an outstanding job of truly integrating colonial Brazil in the examination of Spanish American colonial texts by looking at the important interconnections that exist among both.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Revista de Estudios Hispánicos)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridging print culture and performance, \u003ci\u003eSpectacular Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of PotosÍ, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns’ diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies’ mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the multiple meanings and messages of civic festivals and religious feast days alike, \u003ci\u003eSpectacular Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the conflicting agendas at work in the organization, performance, and publication of festivals. Celebrants and writers in mining boomtowns presented themselves as far more than tributaries yielding mineral wealth to the Spanish and Portuguese empires, using festivals to redefine their reputations and to celebrate their cultural, spiritual, and intellectual wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1: Texts \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. In Praise of Follies: Creole Patriotism in the Festivals of ArzÁ\u003cbr\u003ens’\u003cbr\u003es Historia de la Villa Imperial de PotosÍ\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Celebrating Minas Gerais in Triunfo Eucharistico and Aureo Throno Episcopal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2: Celebrants \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Festive Natives in PotosÍ\u003cbr\u003e, from Audience to Performance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. “\u003cbr\u003eNos Pretos como no Prelo”\u003cbr\u003e: Afro-Brazilians in Festivals, from Performance to Print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Spectacular Tributes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589117505816,"sku":"9781477310502","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/spectacular-wealth-the-festivals-of-colonial-south-american-mining-towns-hardback-9781477310502","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}