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Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Gr……続きを見る

De cuentos" es una antología del escritor Enrique Epelbon, donde se pueden encontrar cuentos cortos escritos con claridad y en un español sencillo, propio de su origen argentino. Cuenta historias en……続きを見る

Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contra……続きを見る

Advierto al viajero que quiere ver estancias en la Patagonia, que debe despojarse de preconceptos, de prejuicios, de comparaciones con las estancias del norte. Esta es otra geografía que ha generado……続きを見る

Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s Nationa……続きを見る

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Ch�vez places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and program……続きを見る

This edition features Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES. HISTORY AND LOCATION. The First Settlers COLONIZATION IN INDIVIDUAL STATES. Introductory Remarks Bahia Minas Geraes ……続きを見る

La violencia en Argentina, como en el resto de América Latina, ha estado unida a su historia desde los inicios de su camino como nación independiente. Este libro explica con lucidez la formación ……続きを見る

The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted t……続きを見る

From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, RunaーQuichua-speaking indigenous peopleーworked on these lar……続きを見る

Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos. 続きを見る

'The Broadway Travellers contains few more exciting stories than that of Staden.' Sunday Times 'The present translation of his adventures among the Brazilian cannibals, with which the gruesome origi……続きを見る

A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships be……続きを見る

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion "brings the country to life" (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a par……続きを見る

Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of ……続きを見る

Two of the most prominent trends in world affairs over the past decadethe projection of American power abroad and high energy priceshave made for some strange bedfellows. Flush with oil revenues, au……続きを見る

The hunt for Ernesto “Che” Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells ……続きを見る

INDICE CAPITULO I A emigração de trabalhadores para o Brazil e os salarios de cá e de lá. Os artistas e os salarios. O lado economico. O clima aos olhos do homem pratico e do homem de sciencia. O cl……続きを見る

Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploi……続きを見る

By the mid-twentieth century, Eastern European Jews had become one of Argentina's largest minorities. Some represented a wave of immigration begun two generations before; many settled in the provinc……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 ……続きを見る

Winner, Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2011 Murdo J. McLeod Book Prize, 2011 On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador……続きを見る

Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar (disambiguation) Colombian people Drug lord Cocaine Illegal drug trade Rionegro Smuggling University of Antioquia Fabio Ochoa Restrepo The Bahamas Robert Vesco Hacienda N……続きを見る

In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Ar……続きを見る

The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created ast……続きを見る

La estancia colonial rioplatense integra evocaciones y crónicas de algunas estancias fundadas en la época colonial, ese subsuelo histórico tan poco difundido, no obstante ser el fundamento económico……続きを見る

The first full-length study of a significant figure of the Spanish Enlightenment Latin American independence histories of the last 150 years have tended to stereotype Captain General Bustamante, gov……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list) Chapter I Early history ー State of the country ー Indian races ー Characteristics of the different tribes ー ……続きを見る

An unforgettable epic history of war and rebellion that has been called "the Bible of Brazilian nationality." Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Ant……続きを見る

For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts. The closely filled pages recorded just over two years in his life in unif……続きを見る