MARC details
000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
03618cam a22004218i 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
on1056741888 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20190913085759.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
181128t20192019nyub e b 001 0deng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2018057093 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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OCLCQ |
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OCLCF |
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GK8 |
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OCL |
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RNL |
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WIM |
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IEB |
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UAB |
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VP@ |
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NFG |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781501104244 |
Qualifying information |
(hardback) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1501104241 |
Qualifying information |
(hardback) |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)1056741888 |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
Authentication code |
pcc |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
cl----- |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
980 |
Item number |
A662 |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
NFGA |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Arana, Marie |
Titles and other words associated with a name |
(Writer), |
Relator term |
author. |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Silver, sword, and stone : |
Remainder of title |
three crucibles in the Latin American story / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Marie Arana. |
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
Title proper/short title |
Silver, sword & stone |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Simon & Schuster, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2019. |
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
©2019 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
477 pages : |
Other physical details |
maps ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content Type Term |
text |
Content Type Code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media Type Term |
unmediated |
Media Type Code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier Type Term |
volume |
Carrier Type Code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (page 366-458) and index. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
"Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. And now, just as then, a miner's survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. His story echoes the violence that has coursed through the Americas since before Columbus to the crushing savagery of the Spanish Conquest, and from 19th- and 20th-century wars and revolutions to the military crackdowns that convulse Latin America to this day. Xavier Albo is a Jesuit priest from Barcelona who emigrated to Bolivia, where he works among the indigenous people. He considers himself an Indian in head and heart and, for this, is well known in his adopted country. Although his aim is to learn rather than proselytize, he is an inheritor of a checkered past, where priests marched alongside conquistadors, converting the natives to Christianity, often forcibly, in the effort to win the New World. Ever since, the Catholic Church has played a central role in the political life of Latin America--sometimes for good, sometimes not. In Silver, Sword, and Stone Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. What emerges is a vibrant portrait of a people whose lives are increasingly intertwined with our own"-- |
Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Gonzales, Leonor. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Buergos, Carlos. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Albó, Xavier, |
Dates associated with a name |
1934- |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Latin America |
Form subdivision |
Biography. |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Latin America |
General subdivision |
History. |
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
Genre/form data or focus term |
Biographies. |
Source of term |
lcgft |
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C0 |
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NFG |