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En esta obra el autor expone los elementos del surgimiento y desarrollo del patrimonio cultural no solo con un enfoque nacional sino también internacional. Nos ofrece apuntes sobre la historia de la……続きを見る

Qué tienen en común un santero y un conchero y qué comperten éstos con un practicante del new age ? Ésta y otras cuestiones son el hilo conductor de la obra que ahora el lector tiene en sus manos, u……続きを見る

Estudio sobre la historia de San Andrés Sajcabajá, un pueblo indígena quiché del altiplano guatemalteco, desde su fundación por los españoles en el siglo XVI hasta 1964, para situarlo en sus relacio……続きを見る

Estudio cuyo objetivo es abordar la religión de los antiguos mayas desde una perspectiva histórica en su proceso evolutivo, el cual abarca los periodos clásico y posclásico y abordar hasta qué punto……続きを見る

Sea europeo o amerindio, el hombre es considerado por los eclesiásticos del siglo XVI como un pecador manchado por la falta original e inclinado a la transgresión. Por eso, al emprender la conquista……続きを見る

Trabajo que ofrece al lector un panorama general de los procesos políticos y socioeconómicos que destacan en la historia de Belice, desde la fundación del asentamiento de cortadores de árboles a pri……続きを見る

En este trabajo nos dedicaremos a analizar el proceso de formación y de extendimiento de las rondas campesinas en la sierra del departamento de Piura, una región recién descubierta por las ciencias ……続きを見る

El «espíritu de imitación» fue, durante mucho tiempo, la razón invocada para explicar por qué los hispanoamericanos se referían tanto a Europa en su labor de construir nuevas naciones. Pese a ser in……続きを見る

La conquête du Paraguay (1536-fin du XVIe siècle) se confond avec celle du Río de la Plata et avait pour objectif principal la découverte des mines argentifères de la Cordillère des Andes. L’hostili……続きを見る

From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy focuses on the immigration of West Indians and Central Americansーparticularly those of British West Indian descent from the Caribbean coastal areasーto New Orl……続きを見る

Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award Winner of the Southern Indiana Civil War Roundtable Wabash Literary Prize In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national con……続きを見る

In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershe……続きを見る

Costa Rica After Coffee explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. In this follow-up to the 1986 classic Costa Rica Befor……続きを見る

El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the bal……続きを見る

Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution is an account of the resurgence of Guatemalan Catholicism during the twentieth century. By the late 1960s, an increasing number of Mayan peasants had emerged as relig……続きを見る

"Jason M. Colby has researched and analyzed his topicーthe business of empireーwell. He exposes the intertwining of imperialism, expansion, racism, and corporate power. The Business of Empire is an ……続きを見る

In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migrati……続きを見る

Recent changes imposed by the Vatican may redefine the Chilean and Peruvian Church's involvement in politics and social issues. Fleet and Smith argue that the Vatican has been moving to restrict the……続きを見る

In 1996, Guillermo O’Donnell taught a seminar at the University of Notre Dame on democratic theory. One of the questions explored in this class was whether it is possible to define and determine the……続きを見る

A bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Robert J. Sierakowsk……続きを見る

“If they are going to kill us anyway, we might as well die in our lands.” With these words and a shrug of shoulders, a leader of the Unified Peasant Movement of the Aguán (MUCA) explains their decis……続きを見る

Throughout the seventeenth century Dutch, French, and English freebooters launched numerous assaults on Spanish targets all over Central America. Many people have heard of Henry Morgan and François ……続きを見る

Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings in The Democracy Development Machine. This historical ethnography examines how gover……続きを見る

Transpacific Developments intervenes in the debates of China's growing presence in Latin America with original ethnographic research that challenges conventional thinking about who and what constitu……続きを見る

At the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage analyzes how people from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala navigate the dangerous and uncertain clandestine……続きを見る

Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completio……続きを見る

Why do some military and rebel groups commit many types of violence, creating an impression of senseless chaos, whereas others carefully control violence against civilians? A classic catch-22 faces ……続きを見る

Les Mayas ont laissé des milliers d’équations calendaires. Cet ouvrage raconte leur redécouverte, et présente la méthodologie interdisciplinaire utilisée pour les traduire et éprouver leurs possible……続きを見る

For fans of The Lost City of Z, The River of Doubt, and Lost in Shangri-Laーa real-life Indiana Jones story, set in the mysterious jungles of Honduras. "I began to daydream about the jungle...." On ……続きを見る

•THE MASTERPIECE OF ONE OF BITTER LEMON’S BESTSELLING AUTHORS. • MOSCOW UNDER STALIN, THE MEXICO OF FRIDA KAHLO, TROTSKY’S ASSASSINATION, AND CONTEMPORARY CUBA, ALL IN A PRIZE WINNING HISTORICAL NOV……続きを見る