South America 21

Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made……続きを見る

Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Honorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Associat……続きを見る

"Historia de mi madre muerta" se mueve entre la crónica personal y la crónica político-social en tanto registro del panorama de la paulatina incursión de la mujer en la política chilena: sólo hace 6……続きを見る

Quizás la historia no sea inevitable, pero es irreversible. Pinochet le propuso a Aylwin que fuese el Abraham Lincoln de Chile, capaz de emprender la reconciliación, suprimir sus instrumentos de opr……続きを見る

LE DÉPART Un pays dont on entend rarement parler aujourd’hui fit soudainementーil nous semble qu’il n’y a de cela que quelques annéesーun fort grand bruit dans le monde: ce pays était la Colombie an……続きを見る

Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agr……続きを見る

This book sheds new light on the foreign policies, roles, and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War. The volume places the neutral states and the NAM ……続きを見る

Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy aims to make an important contribution to the study of emergency politics by offering an up-to-date study of how it works in practice. Specifically,……続きを見る

Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to……続きを見る

In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive po……続きを見る

At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American citiesーmainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires an……続きを見る

Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed ‘Among the Mountains’, searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery . Once upon a time when B……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Der Virey und die Aristokraten (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Der Virey und die A……続きを見る

Felix Riesenberg history of sea travel around Cape Horn. Begining with Magellan's magnificent discovery of the strait through to the Pacific at the tip of South America. It is difficult for us to co……続きを見る

Con la entrada en la era de la materialidad, hace ahora 5 mil años, el conocimiento sobre la anatomía del alma pasó a formar parte de las distintas tradiciones esotéricas. Ello hizo que fuera reserv……続きを見る

Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "disappeared"--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for t……続きを見る

Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria ……続きを見る

Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geogr……続きを見る

In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South Ame……続きを見る

Comprendio de: -Proclama de Mercedes (1811) -Parte de la Batalla de Las Piedras de José Artigas a José Rondeau (1811) -El discurso de Tres Cruces (1813) -Reglamento Provisorio de la Provincia Orient……続きを見る

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During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endors……続きを見る

Law of the Jungle by John Otis is a wild and riveting true story of kidnapping and drug trafficking in the jungles of South America. Written by a 20-year veteran reporter based in Colombiaーthe only……続きを見る

“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” ーThe New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen Henri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo o……続きを見る

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Unter dem Titel »La historia me absolverá«, in Anlehnung an den letzten Satz seines Plädoyers, wurde die ausführliche Verteidigungsrede bekannt, die Fidel Castro am 16.   Oktober 1953 hielt, bei der……続きを見る

Cesar Brion was a heavyweight from Cordoba, Argentina, a former worker in the diplomatic office. He came to the United States, like many other young prospects, hoping to have a shot at meeting the w……続きを見る

By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this……続きを見る

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of São Paulo's extraordinary urban and……続きを見る