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This paper argues that a complex of accounting measures - account books, inventories of accumulated wealth, and detailed instructions for production performance - were used to inculcate Western values into the native population located at five Franciscan missions along the San Antonio River in New Spain (present-day Texas) from 1718 to 1794. Bolstered by the need to alleviate communications problems caused by extreme isolation, the missionaries constructed detailed mission documents that described the acquisition of scarce resources, reported the aggregation of material and spiritual mission wealth, and controlled daily production performance of the native population. In short, the resulting mission economic system, which held the Indians to certain notions of accountability, primarily ...
.... . . They have several saints in whose honor they held these mitotes: one is the..., when Pope Julius II conceded royal patronage to the Spanish monarchs, giving them the right to ...
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Christmas doesn't stress us out at all," says [Alison Carter], 34, an event organizer for a charity. "I love it. It's eating, drinking, playing games, and friends and family.
"Those Protestants that took over Switzerland, the Netherlands and parts of Scotland, and who for a short time had a revolution that governed England in the 1650s and '60s, were among the settlers to New England ," [Gerry Bowler] says. "And they abolished Christmas and everything to do with it -- greenery, minced pies and church services on Christmas."
In the '50s, the Catholic Church took up the fight against the commercialization of Christmas -- or "Santa Clausation," Bowler says. "[Santa Claus], for example, was burnt at the stake outside of Dijon Cathedral in France in the 1950s. They objected to the shift fr...
... a bishop in southern Turkey, and like all saints, he had to earn beatification by performing a mira...Nicholas's patronage encompasses people of almost every vocation and pe...
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...All Saints Episcopal, Martyrs Church, the university chapel--...This right largely devolved into patronage appointments to local landowners in return for pol...
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... for the heavy-handed resort to patronage appointments in the conduct of government by pursu... just described are not governments of saints. They feature disagreements among the political pa...
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..., l'ingrédient de base du patronage. . Selon l'ancien système, les décisions relativ... d'être décrits ne sont pas composés de saints. Il y a des mésententes entre les partis politiqu...
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...-view as well as to their financial patronage shapes the socioeconomic debate presented in the p... for twenty years, as serene as the stone saints carved on the portals of Chartres cathedral. There...
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... of the school day, and the lives of the saints are incorporated into many of their other lessons.... revenues are drawn from the kind patronage of generous donors. Next fall the school will agai...