Latinx Actor Training presents essays and pioneering research from leading Latinx practitioners and scholars in the United States to examine the history and future of Latino/a/x/e actor training pra……続きを見る
Dice el Premio Nobel de literatura Octavio Paz que "La Chingada es la madre abierta, violada o burlada por la fuerza. El 'hijo de la chingada' es el engendro de la violación, del rapto o de la burla……続きを見る
This volume explores several issues pertinent to the history of the cross-border region between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from new explanatory approaches in order to reflect on a history and a re……続きを見る
The Central American port of Greytown was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in 1854 to "avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua," according to official history. Two weeks later, the New York……続きを見る
The poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488/1490 - 559) fue un conquistador español que exploró la costa sur de Norteamérica desde la actual Florida pasando por Alabama, Misisipi y Luisiana y se adentró en Tex……続きを見る
In Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces, Lori Oxford conducts a series of close readings that expound on Gutiérrez’s interpretation of life and reality in the spaces of the……続きを見る
Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.
Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversati……続きを見る
El Salvador, hermosa tierra, llena de magia y misterios, guarda un tesoro de mitos y leyendas que enriquecen el patrimonio cultural de la pequeña, (en territorio), nación, pero que la hacen grande e……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Blitzer
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2024年01月30日
**A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, C……続きを見る
In the 1980s, the Israeli government sold weapons to the Guatemalan government. Few Israelis objected to this, despite the fact that the Guatemalan government was committing mass murder against the ……続きを見る
著者:Brent E. Metz
出版社: University Press of Colorado
発売日: 2022年09月26日
Copublished with the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany
In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? Brent E. Metz explores the complicated issue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the ……続きを見る
**'Dazzling' Fernanda Melchor
'A brilliant debut' Vogue
'Bright and brimming with sisterhood. Overwhelmingly beautiful' El Cultural**
A mother and her child embark on a canoe trip down the mighty At……続きを見る
Christopher Columbus, the explorer credited with the European discovery of Puerto Rico.
Juan Ponce de León, Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain, was the first governor of Puerto Rico. His grandso……続きを見る
If you're a single person looking for easy and delicious meal ideas, this book is for you! In this book, you'll learn how to plan and prepare meals efficiently, guaranteeing you a consistent and sat……続きを見る
This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivati……続きを見る
An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, including widespread democratization and the ris……続きを見る
A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum
America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imag……続きを見る
As the country laments the loss of a cherished queen, enter the fascinating world of monarchy. As the world mourns the passing of a renowned person, whispered secrets reverberate off the walls of Bu……続きを見る
"A Confederacy of Fear" examines the developments that led American legislators and journalists to see the reformist regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (1951-1954) as a beachhead fo……続きを見る
Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a preeminent student of the Maya, made many breakthroughs in deciphering Maya writing, particularly in demonstrating that the glyphs record the deeds of actual human beings, ……続きを見る
著者:David Francois
出版社: Helion & Company
発売日: 2019年06月19日
A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.
In the wake of the US invasion of Nicaragua in 191……続きを見る
著者:Robert C. Bradley
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2023年09月05日
Today, Peru is recognized as one of the top food destinations on the planet. But twenty-five years ago, the world’s foodies focused their attention elsewhereーexcept for wine merchant–turned–archaeo……続きを見る
著者:Michael Johns
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2012年08月08日
"An uncompromising look at his younger self and the Nicaraguan revolution . . . that compels readers to question their own motivations and beliefs." ー The Americas
When Michael Johns joined a Sandi……続きを見る
著者:Edward T. Brett
出版社: University of Notre Dame Press
発売日: 2012年04月15日
The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from……続きを見る
"An engaging and fascinating narrative of the entrepreneurs and mercenaries who 'ravished' Central America between 1880 and 1930." ー The Americas
Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and ……続きを見る
A Mayan evangelical pastor recounts his harrowing experience before and during the Guatemalan Civil War and the heroic action that saved hundreds of lives.
During the height of the Guatemalan civil ……続きを見る
著者:John Dinges
出版社: Open Road Media
発売日: 2023年09月26日
A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriegaーand America's role in both ( The Washington Post).
Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years ……続きを見る
著者:Matt Wilde
出版社: Stanford University Press
発売日: 2023年10月10日
A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic researc……続きを見る
The 1980 Nicaraguan Program of Economic Reactivation for the Benefit of the People is a bilingual (English/Spanish) historic document from the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution that offers a detailed……続きを見る