Forthcoming Books (46)
After the Before Times: Teachersâ Experiences of Pandemic Pedagogy
- Sarah E. Barrett
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In March 2020, when schools across Ontario, Canada closed and emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) began, 160,000 teachers were abruptly separated from their students and from the relational fabric that sustains classroom life. This book documents how teachers experienced those early months of COVID-19 pandemic pedagogyâand what their stories reveal about the nature of good education.A Multi-polar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam
- Phillip W. Stokes
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This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthography, phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax, and syntax. Through extensive charts, tables, and multiple interpretive frameworks, the author illuminates how linguistic features pattern across every dimension relevant to accurate analysis.- Architecture
'An Extension of Ourselves': Richard Neutra, Embodiment, and Nature
- Barbara Lamprecht
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Applied Creative Research: Arts' Innovation in Social Sectors
- Elena SĂĄnchez VizcaĂno Flys
- Antonio Villalba
FORTHCOMING
Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Phenomenological View
- Sencer Yeralan
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in the everyday practices of higher education, shaping assessment, governance, labor, and institutional legitimacy. Rather than presenting a technical guide or policy checklist, this volume instead offers a reflective, multi-voiced examination of what AI means for higher educationâs purpose, identity, and future. Its phenomenological grounding shifts the focus from operational questions of implementation to deeper inquiries into how AI reshapes institutions, knowledge, and the academic self.Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician: Insights into the Genesis of Colonial American-English Phonology, Vol. 1
- Gary D. German
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Benjamin Franklin has been hailed as an inventor, scientist, printer, author, philosopher, diplomat, philanthropist and political activist and, especially, a founding father of the United States, but few are aware he was also a phonetician. This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of Franklinâs little-studied linguistic legacyâhis Reformed Mode of Spelling (1768/1779). In this short treatise, Franklin outlined a plan for a radical, phonetically-based modernization of the English spelling system that would simultaneously serve as a pronunciation guide for what he envisaged to be 'correct' English as well as a practical scheme allowing the unlettered and foreigners to learn to read and write âwithin a weekâ. The social and sociolinguistic reasons for its inception as well as what that model entailed linguistically are the focus of this book.Benjamin Franklin, Orthoepist and Phonetician: Insights into the Genesis of Colonial American-English Phonology, Vol. 2
- Gary D. German
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Benjamin Franklin has been hailed as an inventor, scientist, printer, author, philosopher, diplomat, philanthropist and political activist and, especially, a founding father of the United States, but few are aware he was also a phonetician. This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of Franklinâs little-studied linguistic legacyâhis Reformed Mode of Spelling (1768/1779). In this short treatise, Franklin outlined a plan for a radical, phonetically-based modernization of the English spelling system that would simultaneously serve as a pronunciation guide for what he envisaged to be 'correct' English as well as a practical scheme allowing the unlettered and foreigners to learn to read and write âwithin a weekâ. The social and sociolinguistic reasons for its inception as well as what that model entailed linguistically are the focus of this book.- Science
- Science: Applied Science
Beyond Popular Science
- David H. Silver
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Beyond Popular Science is not a popular science book. It is not a textbook. It is not an academic monograph. Instead, it occupies a rare and deliberately unconventional space: a work for readers who enjoy scientific storytelling but are no longer satisfied with simplifications that smooth away the real substance of modern science.- Environmental Studies
- Textbooks and Learning Guides
Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2Ăšme Ă©dition
- John W. Wilson
- Richard B. Primack
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Ce livre, publiĂ© par Open Book Publishers, est disponible gratuitement au format PDF. La dĂ©cision des auteurs de rendre ce livre en libre accĂšs est remarquable, dâautant plus que cela permet dâattribuer Ă lâouvrage une importance majeure dans le domaine de la conservation et de la biodiversitĂ© en Afrique et par les africains. Je recommande ce manuel aux Ă©tudiants africains, au personnel chargĂ© de la conservation, aux responsables politiques et Ă toute personne intĂ©ressĂ©e par la conservation de la nature. La distribution gratuite assure un large lectorat parmi les universitaires, chercheurs et autres professionnels africains de l'environnement. Ce volume offre une rare opportunitĂ© d'accĂšs Ă la recherche sur la biodiversitĂ© en Afrique, et les informations fournies peuvent ĂȘtre utilisĂ©es non seulement pour amĂ©liorer la collaboration intra-africaine en matiĂšre de recherche mais Ă©galement pour renforcer les capacitĂ©s locales et rĂ©gionales en matiĂšre de recherche sur le continent. Cet ouvrage est actuellement la publication la plus complĂšte sur la conservation en Afrique. Il constitue un point de rĂ©fĂ©rence pour les spĂ©cialistes de l'environnement, les biologistes de la faune et vie sauvage, les conservateurs et les responsables politiques qui travaillent sur l'environnement ainsi que sur la faune et vie sauvage en Afrique ; il est appelĂ© Ă devenir un classique.Book of Hours in the Form of a Roll (Egerton 3044), Bruges Scribe Johannes de Ecclesia, and the Art of Writing
- Kathryn M. Rudy
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Johannes de Ecclesia was a prominent medieval-era scribe known to have worked for a largely Catalan-speaking clientele in late fourteenth century Bruges.
This short-form book highlights the extent of de Ecclesiaâs little-acknowledged influence on the scribal practice of Late Medieval Europe; an in-depth exploration of the scribeâs art, it undertakes a considered analysis of two of his major surviving works, as well as a third manuscript he may have authored. Interrogating de Ecclesiaâs under-studied role in the aesthetic development of the prayer book genre during the late fourteenth century and beyond, this book submits evidence for the emergence of bilingual text, a variety of unusual letterforms, and ornamental textual features as product of de Ecclesiaâs possible exposure to a wide range of courtly and ecclesiastical texts in as diverse locations as Avignon, Paris, and England.Bourdieu and Literature
- John R.W. Speller
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This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.Colour Matters: Exploring Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)
- Stefano Evangelista
- Charlotte Ribeyrol
- Matthew Winterbottom
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Colour Matters provides a fresh investigation of colour in the long nineteenth century. Across fourteen richly researched essays, the book explores the materiality, politics, and sensory experience of colourâfrom synthetic dyes and chrome pigments to the role of colour in medicine, gender, empire, and identity. By weaving together art history, literature, anthropology, science, and conservation, the contributors reveal a dynamic world where chromatic experimentation shaped aesthetics, technology, and social life. Colour Matters offers an essential contribution to colour studies and the humanitiesâ material turn, showing how pigment and perception illuminate both past and present.Comedy of the Impossible: The Power of Play in Post-War European Drama
- Anna Street
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This volume is a conceptually bold, and ethically compelling study that places comedy at the center of philosophical, aesthetic, and social inquiry. For centuries, tragedy has overshadowed comedy, shaping dominant accounts of art, ethics, and human meaning from Plato onward. Anna Street overturns this long-standing hierarchy by demonstrating that comedyâlong dismissed as trivial, subordinate, or merely amusingâhas in fact become the paradigmatic lens through which the modern world must be understood. Comedyâs distinctive power, she argues, lies in its persistent demonstration that the impossible happens all the time.- Environmental Studies
- Textbooks and Learning Guides
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition
- John W. Wilson
- Richard B. Primack
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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa is the definitive open-access textbook on essential conservation issues in the region. Now in its updated Second Edition, this prizewinning volume, which can be downloaded for free, is an invaluable resource for university courses, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to halt the increasing loss of biodiversity.Distributing Knowledge: Openness, Equity, and Higher Education Transformation
- Richard F. Heller
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Inequity is deeply embedded in higher education: in who can access learning, whose knowledge is created and valued, who gets published, and who ultimately benefits from universitiesâ work. Distributing Knowledge argues that the sector is falling short of its public missionâand that incremental reform is no longer enough.Eine Rekonstruktion der lateinischen GesĂ€nge der Frankfurter Dirigierrolle und des Frankfurter Passionsspiels
- Peter Macardle
- Henrike LĂ€hnemann
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Das aus dem Nachlass von Peter Macardle herausgegebene Werk bietet die erste vollstĂ€ndige Rekonstruktion der musikalischen Schicht der Frankfurter Dirigierrolle und des Frankfurter Passionsspiels â zweier zentraler Handschriften der mittelalterlichen deutschen Passionsspieltradition. Die Dirigierrolle, eine Regierolle aus dem 14. Jahrhundert, sowie ihr Pendant aus dem 15. Jahrhundert enthalten nur die Spieltexte, ohne ausnotierte Melodien. Macardle rekonstruiert vorbildhaft die Musik von 161 GesĂ€ngen, wobei er sich auf diözesanspezifische liturgische Praktiken sowie auf eine breite Basis an mittelalterlichen deutschen Spielen stĂŒtzt.Eliza Giffard: Family, Home, Library and Novels
- Jonathan E. Hill
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This volume offers a richly textured portrait of a woman, a house, and a remarkable country-house library at the turn of the nineteenth century. Drawing on the substantial family archives of the Giffards of Nerquis Hall (Flintshire, Wales), Jonathan E. Hill reconstructs the formation, use, and afterlife of Eliza Giffardâs library, situating it within the social world of an unmarried heiress, her household, and her wider community.Embedding Ethics and Sustainability in Mathematics Teaching: Rationale, Methods, Exercises, Projects
- Maurice Chiodo
- Dennis MĂŒller
- Rehan Shah
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This groundbreaking book offers the first-ever comprehensive collection of resources for embedding ethics and sustainability into undergraduate mathematics education. Designed for use in first- and second-year university courses in Mathematics and related fieldsâsuch as Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, and Economicsâit features a unique selection of exercises, homework problems, and project ideas that seamlessly integrate ethical and sustainable considerations into standard mathematical content.Evolution, Culture and Human Behaviour: A comprehensive Introduction for Psychology and Anthropology Students
- Lynda Boothroyd
- Bruce Rawlings
- Sheina Lew-Levy
- Yan Birch
- Rohan Kapitany
- Linda Lidborg
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Expansion, Circulation, Resonance: Illustrated Popular Film Magazines as Agents of Visual Culture in Germany and Beyond
- Vincent Fröhlich
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This book offers the first systematic and in-depth study of illustrated popular film magazines, a highly influential yet long-neglected form of media that shaped how cinema was seen, understood, and experienced throughout the twentieth century. Focusing on the German-speaking media landscape, it reframes these widely circulated publications not as marginal film paratexts, but as powerful agents of visual culture that actively configured cinematic knowledge, taste, and affect.From the Margins: Migrant Academicsâ Narratives of Precarity
- Ladan Rahbari
- Olga Burlyuk
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'From the Margins: Migrant Academicsâ Narratives of Precarity' is the much-anticipated second volume following 'Migrant Academicsâ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe' published in 2023 and available at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331. This new collection deepens and expands the conversation on the lived experiences of migrant academics navigating global academia. Maintaining the autoethnographic and narrative approach of the first volume, From the Margins brings together diverse voices that challenge the Eurocentric framing of academic mobility by extending the focus beyond Europe to contexts such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Africa, and the Middle East.Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia: Volume 2: Comparative Lexicon of Fish and Other Marine Species
- Miranda J. Morris
- Erik Anonby
- Janet C.E. Watson
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Laokoon, or: On the Boundaries of Painting and Poetry: (with notes and Paralipomena)
- Hugh Barr Nisbet
- Rosamond McKitterick
- Roger Paulin
- Michael Squire
- George Pliotis
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This volume presents a new English translation of Laokoon and the first English translation of the Paralipomena, both by the late H. B. Nisbet, the distinguished scholar of the German Enlightenment. Nisbetâs translation, recovered from his papers and prepared for publication by his colleagues, is accompanied by contextual materials reflecting his lifelong engagement with Lessing, Kant, Hegel, and Herder.Microscopic Life in Early-Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
- Liliane Campos
- Sarah Bouttier
- François-Joseph Lapointe
- Sarah Montin
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This volume provides a groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection exploring how literature and performance engage with life at microscopic scales. Responding to an era dominated by planetary thinking, the volume turns attention to the invisible biological dimensions that shape our imagination of life, community, and ecology. Drawing from North American and European case studies, the volumeâs essays and creative works examine how fiction, poetry, theatre, dance, installation art and museum practices render microbial and cellular processes perceptible, to enable new ethical and political relationships across species and scales.Music and Dances from Central Nepal: The Works of Subi Shah
- Anna Marie Stirr
- Mason Brown
- Hikmat Khadka
- Lochan Rijal
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In this book, performer, educator, and writer Subi Shah presents an essential commentary and analysis of Himalayan folk music and performance. Having documented his musical tradition since the 1960s, Shah has created in-depth analyses of song, dance, music, poetry, and drama within their local and spiritual contexts. Shahâs detailed contribution to this field is invaluable reading for students, scholars, and musicians alike.Pietro Giannoneâs Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition: Translated with commentary by ThĂ©rĂšse Ridley
- ThérÚse Ridley
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This edition, translated and annotated by Therese Ridley, not only renders the full autobiography accessible to English readers for the first time, but contextualizes it within modern Italian scholarship. Each chapter is enriched with appendices that include critical sources, commentary, and related correspondence, illuminating the people, events, and philosophical struggles that defined Giannoneâs world.Politics of Open Infrastructures: Exploring Open Digital Knowledge Infrastructures and their Socio-political Dynamics
- Katja Mayer
- Astrid Mager
- Renée Ridgway
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This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones. They are deeply political arrangements that embed values, distribute power and shape whose knowledge counts.Rethinking Social Justice: Theory and Action in an Age of Transition
- Michael Karlberg
- Derik Smith
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This book offers a compelling and original rethinking of social justice at a moment of global uncertainty and transformation. Tracing the emergence and evolution of modern social justice discourse, it addresses two fundamental questions: what ends should we aspire toward, and what means are most effective in pursuing them? Moving beyond familiar critiques of injustice, the authors identify a shared, though often implicit, horizon that diverse traditions of thought all orient toward: contributive justice. This positive vision of social justice centers on the creation of social conditions that enable every individual and group to develop their capacities to contribute meaningfully to collective flourishing.Scriabinâs Late Works and the Holy Grail of Music Analysis
- Rajan Lal
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This book offers a bold and original music-analytical and music-theoretical account of the late works of Alexander Scriabin, a composer whose harmonic language has long been regarded as one of the most elusive problems in music theory. Often described as a âHoly Grailâ of analysis, Scriabinâs late style has resisted clear explanation across generations of scholars. Rajan Lal confronts this challenge directly, proposing an integrated analytical framework that bridges the long-standing divide between the fieldâs tonal and post-tonal theoretical pillars.- History
- European Studies
- European Studies: English and Irish Studies
- European Studies: French Studies
- European Studies: German Studies
- Anthropology
The American Archipelago: A New Edition of Oscar Handlinâs Classic Anthology, 'This Was America'
- Oscar Handlin
- Kenneth Weisbrode
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The collection at hand, Handlinâs classic anthology 'This Was America', first published in 1949, gathers Europeansâ travel accounts and perspectives on America from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Rather than presenting a single narrative, Handlin emphasizes variety: contrasting impressions of liberty and inequality, restlessness and rootedness, optimism and critique by people arriving from diverse European backgrounds. His free translations and selective introductions guide readers subtly but leave interpretation open. Over time, these essays shift meaning depending on contextâonce read as a celebration of American life, they now invite more critical reflection. This new edition reimagines America not as a singular whole but as an âarchipelagoâ: a collection of diverse experiences, perceptions, and contradictions. The metaphor underscores the interplay between unity and multiplicity in American identity.The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891â1912
- Andrew Hobbs
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Andrew Hobbsâs introduction and footnotes provide background and analysis of these valuable documents. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers.The Doctrine of One
- Michael Beckerman
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This volume is a bold and original meditation on how we interpret art, music, and cultureâand what it means to listen, see, and feel differently from others. Drawing on Czech history and aesthetics, the book moves from filmmaker Hugo Haasâs coded tributes to his murdered brother, to the haunting ex libris designs of Josef VĂĄchal, to the deeply personal resonances of Schubertâs chamber music, DvoĆĂĄkâs cello concerto, and Gideon Kleinâs tragic TerezĂn Trio. Across these vivid case studies, the author asks whether meaning in art can ever be sharedâor whether it always belongs to the individual observer.The Khanâs Pifferi: Reading about the Musics of Asia in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy
- Tim Shephard
- Chenxi Xiao
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This volume explores what Italian readers of the 1480s and 1490s could learn about the musics of Asia through the newly expanding medium of print. Drawing on ten travel books printed in Italy before 1501, including pilgrim accounts, the popular Mandeville, and eyewitness narratives by slaves, merchants, diplomats, and Marco Polo, the authors reconstruct how musical practices in the Levant, Turkey, Persia, India, and China were described and imagined for late fifteenth-century Italian audiences.The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The 'Authentic' Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus
- Gideon Bohak
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By reconstructing an ancient polemical text that has previously been known only in a fragmentary manner, and by situating it both within its Late Antique context and in the context of previous scholarship, this book makes a significant contribution to the study of Judaism, and of Jewish-Christian relations, in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.The Unbearable Light(ness) of AI: Bright Promises and Hidden Shadows of Artificial Intelligence
- Giuliano Pozza
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This volume examines one of the defining tensions of our era: how to harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence while preserving responsibility, sovereignty, and human judgement. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume moves beyond hype and alarmism to explore AI across three interconnected levels: global systems, organisational governance, and personal ethics. It addresses digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, sustainability, inclusion, healthcare, education, and accessibility, highlighting both the environmental and social costs of AI and its potential to advance innovation within the Sustainable Development Goals.The World of Tradition: A Global Perspective on Folklore and Ethnology
- Simon J. Bronner
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This landmark volume features over 45 prominent scholars from all over the world who assess knowledge of international folklore and ethnology in the twenty-first century and ways to enhance global cultural understanding in the future. They cover issues of globalism from the ancient past to the present, migration and diffusion, and comparative genres and traditional practices. It is the most comprehensive reference on international folkloristic and ethnological studies ever produced.Thinking-Through Voyant: Hands-on Text Analysis and Visualization
- Geoffrey Rockwell
- Ayushi Khemka
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This book introduces readers to Voyant Tools, one of the most widely used open-access text analysis platforms. Voyantâs opennessâits free web interface, downloadable local installation, and fully available source codeâhas made it central to major initiatives in text analysis.Two Priors and a Princess: St Frideswide in Twelfth-Century Oxford
- Andrew Dunning
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Two Priors and a Princess presents a fresh assessment of the manuscript evidence with translations that are easily accessible to non-specialists. It is essential reading for students and scholars of medieval literature, as well as social and religious historians. It will be of particular value to readers interested in medical explanations and mental health in the Middle Ages; in the probative functions and stylistic development of the genres of hagiography and miracle collections; and in the function and definition of the âsupernaturalâ in medieval England.Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages: Data, Methodology, and Analysis
- Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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This volume brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary cohort of scholars to shed new light on verbal multi-word expressions in corpus languages such as Greek, Latin, and Egyptian. Addressing in particular corpora related to in-groups, which are often overlooked due to entrenched research traditions or limited accessibility, the volume makes these corpora newly visible and methodologically relevant.Who Will Speak the Truth? Buenaventura de Salinas y CĂłrdovaâs Activist Memorial, Peru, 1630
- Stephanie Merrim
- Stephanie Merrim
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'Who Will Speak the Truth?' brings to light the powerful seventeenth-century voice of the Peruvian Franciscan Buenaventura de Salinas y CĂłrdova, whose 'Memorial on the Histories of the New World, Peru' (1630) stands as one of the earliest and most forceful creole denunciations of colonial injustices against Andean Indigenous peoples. Framed by the apocalyptic imagery of the opening of the Seventh Seal in the Book of Revelation, Salinasâs Memorial is both exposĂ© and call to action, articulating a passionate plea for justice and reform within the Spanish Empire.