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For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che's right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cuba, Bustos was determined to bring revolution to the……続きを見る

Why do two groups from the same country pursue radically different economic strategies of transnational mobility? David Kyle examines the lives of people from four rural communities in two regions o……続きを見る

Brazil was one of the emerging world powers to be invited to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Having jettisoned her empire just thirty years before, the Portuguese-speaking nation was showed sign……続きを見る

The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the ori……続きを見る

Highlighting globalization’s effects on humanity through the lens of Ecuador’s indigenous Saraguro people, With the Saraguros marks a compelling departure from conventional approaches to ethnography……続きを見る

A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon’s Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films release……続きを見る

The first volume in the new Helion Library of the Great War, a series designed to bring into print rare books long out-of-print, as well as producing translations of important and overlooked materia……続きを見る

Cristóbal Colón es la figura histórica más controvertida de todos los tiempos. Lee sus propias palabras como las tenemos hoy en una edición conveniente y bien editada y decide tú cuál ha sido su imp……続きを見る

Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open prac……続きを見る

Obra que retrata o Museu Paulista (conhecido como Museu do Ipiranga), a partir de sua construção, em fins do século XIX, como depositário da memória nacional atrelada à paulista, construída por meio……続きを見る

Este livro busca restituir as ligações que o cauim apresenta com diferentes aspectos da vida social Yudjá, oferecendo ao mesmo tempo uma análise de um sistema sociocosmológico e um mapa da condição ……続きを見る

Este livro é uma investigação antropológica sobre a relação dos Xikrin com os bens industrializados e mercadorias, que procura assumir um ponto de vista no qual a perspectiva dos índios ocupa a posi……続きを見る

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi refletir sobre o movimento dos habitantes do rio Uaupés (afluente do rio Negro) em direção ao mundo dos brancos, buscando delinear o seu sentido segundo os princípios d……続きを見る

Rio de Janeiro’s is a lush, complex history that spans five centuries, and Marvelous City is the first full length retelling of that history written in English. From the beach life of the Ipanema an……続きを見る

Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politic……続きを見る

Nesta nova obra de Eduardo Bueno, a trama está centrada no casal Antônio e Carmem Prudente, personagens de destaque na luta da humanidade contra o câncer. Ele vindo da oligarquia ……続きを見る

Este libro narra el acaecer de los chilenos, analiza los problemas que se han tenido que enfrentar y explica la evolución del país como Estado y Sociedad. La idea es arrojar un grano de arena en el ……続きを見る

Until 1930, Argentina was one of the great hopes for stable democracy in Latin America. Argentines themselves believed in the destiny of their nation to become the leading Latin American country in ……続きを見る

In nineteenth-century Brazil the power of the courts rivaled that of the central government, bringing to it during its first half century of independence a stability unique in Latin America. Thomas ……続きを見る

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the social, economic, and political landscape of Peru was transformed profoundly. Within a decade of the country’s disastrous defeat by Chil……続きを見る

São Paulo is one of the few places in the underdeveloped world where an advanced industrial system has grown out of a tropical raw-material-exporting economy. By 1960 there were 830,000 industrial w……続きを見る

Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the 1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto Pinochet ……続きを見る

In the War of the Triple Allianceーthe most terrible conflict in South American historyーParaguay was almost annihilated by the armed forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The chaotic postwar de……続きを見る

The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations tow……続きを見る

Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a d……続きを見る

Based on extended interviews at the Culiprán fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political acti……続きを見る

“Dirtier than the dogs of Constantinople.” “Waves of human scum thrown upon our beaches by other countries.” Such was the vitriolic abuse directed against immigrant groups in Chile and Argentina ear……続きを見る

On the Argentine pampas, between the years 1860 and 1910, a dramatic social and agricultural revolution took place. The haunts of wild cattle, native peoples, and gauchos were transformed into culti……続きを見る

Joaquim Marques de Araújo ardently defended the Portuguese Inquisition for fifty years, only to find himself sidelined and forgotten. In Defence of the Faith offers an insightful examination of one ……続きを見る

The story of exiles from the Confederate South who fled to Brazil after the US Civil War. The collection includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler In the wake of the America……続きを見る