著者:Joseph Smith
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年04月23日
A clearly structured and well-informed synthesis of developments and events in Brazilian history from the colonial period to the present, this volume is aimed at non-specialized readers and students……続きを見る
A biography of Borges, by his translator.
Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a……続きを見る
Nos termos propostos em Nostalgia Imperial, a história do Império é a história da formação da matriz de civilização escravista da Nação. Matriz que perdurou, e se renovou ainda por muito tempo, em n……続きを見る
An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America
In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey ac……続きを見る
著者:Peter H. Rist
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年05月08日
The Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema covers the long history of cinema in Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the nine Spanish-speaking countries. These films include Los tres berretines, P……続きを見る
Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre
Immense pays. Immenses ressources. Immenses défis. Pour le visiteur, condamné à ne découvrir qu’une infime partie de ce territoir……続きを見る
Across America : The Great West and the Pacific Coast
Across America, from New York to San Francisco, may be roughly estimated as three thousand miles. The f……続きを見る
O livro apresenta não apenas a figura tradicional das Baianas do Acarajé, ou fala sobre esse quitute que ganho terras além do solo baiano. O autor realiza uma reflexão so……続きを見る
著者:Bernardo Sorj
出版社: Centro Edelstein
発売日: 2015年01月19日
The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technology between countries and within societies. We will e……続きを見る
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a……続きを見る
História do Paraná: séculos XIX e XX é uma obra que analisa diversos temas da história do Estado, buscando compreender a diversidade das experiências sociais, culturais e políticas, a partir de uma ……続きを見る
著者:Jane M. Rausch
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年06月12日
In the horrific conflict of 1914–1918 known first as “The Great War” and later as World War I, Latin American nations were peripheral players. Only after the U.S. entered the fighting in 1917 did ei……続きを見る
著者:Ellen B. Basso
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2010年07月22日
An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society. Dr……続きを見る
Here is a benchmark study of voter attitudes in a Latin American country. This volume is based on extensive survey research conducted during the Venezuelan elections of 1973. The methods employed by……続きを見る
Via military conquest, Catholic evangelization, and intercultural engagement and struggle, a vast array of knowledge circulated through the Spanish viceroyalties in Mexico and the Andes. This collec……続きを見る
著者:Matthew Brown
出版社: Reaktion Books
発売日: 2014年08月15日
In summer 2014 the eyes of the world will be on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and this will be repeated in 2016 for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Screens will likely be filled with cultural s……続きを見る
著者:Euclides da Cunha
出版社: Montecristo Publishing LLC
発売日: 2012年02月07日
Os Sertões é um livro escrito por Euclides da Cunha e publicado em 1902.
Trata da Guerra de Canudos (1896-1897), no interior da Bahia. Euclides da Cunha tinha presenciado uma parte desta guerra como……続きを見る
著者:Marcia Ochoa
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2014年05月19日
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and con……続きを見る
'ABSORBING' Guardian
'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman
'EPIC' Evening Standard
'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times
'MAGISTERIAL' Irish Examiner
Fully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian ……続きを見る
著者:Keith A. Davies
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年06月30日
In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surround……続きを見る
During the nineteenth century, British-owned railways grew under the protection of an Argentine ruling elite that considered railways both instruments and symbols of progress. Under this program of ……続きを見る
著者:John W. F. Dulles
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年07月03日
In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable a……続きを見る
Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history.
'She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be s……続きを見る
We learn that writing marks the boundary between history and prehistory understanding that in America, before the fifteenth century, there was no "civilization" for missing the alphabetical language……続きを見る
著者:Paul Sullivan
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年08月06日
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulumーand started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Y……続きを見る
"Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano moving……続きを見る
著者:John W. F. Dulles
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年07月03日
The São Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country’s leadership. For the members of the school’s secret Burschens……続きを見る
著者:John W. F. Dulles
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年07月03日
The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil……続きを見る
著者:John W. F. Dulles
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2014年07月03日
… I offer my life in a holocaust … This people whose slave I was will no longer be slave to anyone. My sacrifice will remain forever in their souls and my blood will be the price of their ransom.
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