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Excavations over many years in the Peruvian Andes and coastal regions have revealed that the village settlements on the west coast of South America were one of the early centers of world civilizatio……続きを見る

The inhabitants of the department of Antioquía in north-central Colombia have played a unique role in that country’s economic history. During the colonial period Antioqueño placer miners supplied a ……続きを見る

La edición de este libro constituye la culminación de un largo proceso, en él he querido entregar, aunque sea parcialmente, la historia de algunas publicaciones literarias y que sean ellas mismas en……続きを見る

In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests. Issues of water scarcity a……続きを見る

In the 1980s a poor farmer's son from Recife, Brazil, joined the Brazilian navy and began selling cocaine. After his arrest in Rio de Janeiro he spent the next eight years in prison, where he joined……続きを見る

At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins – wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradi……続きを見る

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply u……続きを見る

The Korean communities in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires were the first overseas Korean communities that the new Republic of Korea initiated and supported. The initiative was taken to relieve the econom……続きを見る

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The Inca Empire existed for fewer than 100 years, yet ruled more subjects than either the Aztecs or the Maya and occupied a territory stretching nearly 3000 miles. The Incas left no system of writin……続きを見る

Land-locked Paraguay is one of the smaller nations of Latin America, whose global image is now changing very rapidly. In the process, the tired stereotype of a “forgotten” country comprising only mi……続きを見る

In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "prop……続きを見る

In Families in War and Peace Sarah C. Chambers places gender analysis and family politics at the center of Chile's struggle for independence and its subsequent state building. Linking the experience……続きを見る

Examen circunstanciado de afirmaciones, documentos y declaraciones sin fundamento en la realidad histórica que son ampliamente divulgadas y refutación de las mismas. 続きを見る

Neste trabalho eu procuro traçar um quadro da pobreza urbana no Brasil contemporâneo, com a precisão permitida pelos dados de pesquisas de amostragem de domicílios. Para isso eu utilizo da abordagem……続きを見る

This authoritative book provides a deeply informed overview of one of the most dynamic social movements in Latin America. Focusing on contemporary Indigenous movements in Ecuador, leading scholar Ma……続きを見る

Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public inve……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 movingl……続きを見る

História do Futuro é um grandioso livro de reportagem em que a jornalista Míriam Leitão mapeia o território do que está por vir com base em entrevistas, viagens, análises de dados e depoimentos de e……続きを見る

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This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin Americ……続きを見る

The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists’ struggle with the maj……続きを見る

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest coun……続きを見る

For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that h……続きを見る

A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the g……続きを見る

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resourc……続きを見る

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging ……続きを見る

La segunda parte de Que no te la cuenten acentúa la intención esclarecedora realizada por el P. Javier Olivera Ravasi en su primer tomo del mismo título. En la época en que vivimos, caracterizada po……続きを見る

Esta pesquisa sobre a sociedade paulista da primeira metade do oitocentos é tributária e também faz parte de um esforço para ampliar os estudos, investigações e interpretações deste amplo e diversif……続きを見る

A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovati……続きを見る