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This is a history book that studies the thought and actions of José Gervasio Artigas throughout the decade of his prominence (1810 –1820) as leader of the Federal League, which united his native ter……続きを見る

Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering in……続きを見る

This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the Unit……続きを見る

This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmo……続きを見る

Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del ejército español en la g……続きを見る

Die Autorin, die mehrere Jahre bei den Yequana-Indianern im Dschungel Venezuelas gelebt hat, schildert eindrucksvoll deren harmonisches, glückliches Zusammenleben und entdeckt seine Wurzeln im Umgan……続きを見る

Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical deve……続きを見る

Cuando Pedro Lísperguer Wittemberg llegaba a América lo hacía con feudo imperial: "no embargante que es alemán y cualquier provisión que haya en contrario", siguiendo las propias palabras del empera……続きを見る

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victimsーincluding the deadーduring the Cold War state vi……続きを見る

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and dea……続きを見る

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil’s aerospace strategies. Brazil is becoming increasingly important geopolitically, and several st……続きを見る

According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the worldーa distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America ……続きを見る

Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inacce……続きを見る

The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo Benzoni’s popular account of his adventures in the Americas and the Spanish col……続きを見る

Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American……続きを見る

Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of Revolution (1780–1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in recent revolution-center……続きを見る

La familia alemana Lísperguer, protegida de Carlos V, y de gran éxito en el Chile y Perú colonial de los siglos XVI y XVII, ha despertado un enorme interés mediático, convirtiéndose en un verdadero ……続きを見る

O livro Partidos políticos e disputa eleitoral no Brasil é o resultado de uma pesquisa que tem como objetivo reconstruir criticamente os acontecimentos políticos cruciais do final dos governos de ca……続きを見る

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) is Spain’s master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Span……続きを見る

Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Uncon……続きを見る

“This book is proof that today’s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn’t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that ‘the way to understand wasn’……続きを見る

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and povertyーis the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the worl……続きを見る

Playing with the form of a detective novel, Labbé investigates the nature and purpose of writing itself. 続きを見る

Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century. A royal marriage united Castile and Aragon, its two largest kingdoms. The last Muslim emirate on the Iberian Peninsula fell to Spanish Catholi……続きを見る

This field guide to oral history in Latin America addresses methodological, ethical, and interpretive issues arising from the region’s unique milieu. With careful consideration of the challenges of ……続きを見る

In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the oversea……続きを見る

An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Comm……続きを見る

This timely book takes the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States in 2015 as the point of departure for a Cuban perspective on future relations. Tracing the histo……続きを見る

The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.As The Reinvent……続きを見る

This book examines the ways in which Cuba's revolutions of 1933 and 1959 became touchstones for border-crossing endeavors of radical politics and cultural experimentation over the mid-twentieth cent……続きを見る