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La sorpresa que genera algo nuevo es uno de los factores que más cautiva al lector. Le sigue a ello la sagaz liturgia que concurre a la hora de seleccionar un texto que cuaje con su agrado, instanci……続きを見る

Like so many other cities of South America, Rio is an urban sprawl containing some truly stunning contrasts. Yet Rio comes alive, really, for only two things – soccer and the samba. According to tra……続きを見る

Ville des contrastes comme beaucoup d'autres centres urbains de l'Amérique du Sud, Rio ne vit que pour le football et la samba. Fondé par le portugais, André Gonçalves, un premier janvier en 1502, d……続きを見る

Es gibt keine schönere Stadt und kaum eine unergründlichere und unübersichtlichere. Man wird mit ihr nicht fertig. Das hat einst Stefan Zweig über Rio de Janeiro gesagt, diesen 12-Millionen-Hexenkes……続きを見る

Dagli anni Sessanta a oggi il Messico è stato sconvolto da centinaia di migliaia di morti e di «sparizioni forzate», vittime di una tragica guerra mai dichiarata. I desaparecidos non sono solo vitti……続きを見る

From Hero to Villain: My True Story of the Citgo 6 In the midst of rising political tensions between the USA and Venezuela, my 5 colleagues and I, executives of Citgo Petroleum, received an urgent c……続きを見る

“Truth is always stranger than fiction. . . A stunning, riveting and extraordinary real-life story of life in the shadows." –#1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow The gripping true story, ……続きを見る

O livro apresenta, de forma sintética e linguagem simples, os 500 anos de história do Brasil: da “nação em construção” às ameaças atuais à nação brasileira (nação em desmonte), propondo, um exemplo ……続きを見る

No dia 13 de maio de 1888, foi publicada a Lei nº 3.353, conhecida como Lei Áurea, que extinguiu a escravidão no Brasil. A norma foi resultado de um processo complexo, envolvendo múltiplos fatores, ……続きを見る

Citizen Engagement in Cuba: Neighbors and the State in Pogolotti examines citizen engagement at the local level in Cuba through projects initiated by the community since the 1990s. The nature of cit……続きを見る

This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial peri……続きを見る

This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual an……続きを見る

Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these are the underlying causes of violence. The Para……続きを見る

Brazil marked its centennial as an independent country in 1922. Claiming Brazil explores how Brazilians from different walks of life commemorated the event, and how this led to conflicting ideas of ……続きを見る

In 1895, forty-seven rebel military officers contested the terms of a law that granted them amnesty but blocked their immediate return to the armed forces. During the century that followed, numerous……続きを見る

The Brazilian Northeast has long been a marginalized region with a complex relationship to national identity. It is often portrayed as impoverished, backward, and rebellious, yet traditional and cul……続きを見る

Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a ……続きを見る

The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, i……続きを見る

Winner, 2024 RMCLAS Thomas McGann Award Argentine women’s long resistance to extreme rightists, tyranny, and militarism culminated in the Junta de la Victoria, or Victory Board, a group that organiz……続きを見る

The Matter of Empire examines the philosophical principles invoked by apologists of the Spanish empire that laid the foundations for the material exploitation of the Andean region between 1520 and 1……続きを見る

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to the Spanish crown for intercession, mediation, and ……続きを見る

Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco tr……続きを見る

Winner, 2023 CLAH Susan Socolow-Lyman Johnson Book Prize Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reformーarguably the most ……続きを見る

In Mirrors of Whiteness, Mauro P. Porto examines the conservative revolt of Brazil’s white middle class, which culminated with the 2018 election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. He identifies ……続きを見る

Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countries in Latin America, in search of what defines the Jewish communities in……続きを見る

Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta, ……続きを見る

Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet it also happens at the grassroots level, where communities envision and create peace on their own. T……続きを見る

Making Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dicta……続きを見る

During the first decade of the century, Evo Morales and other leftists took control of governments across Latin America. In the case of Bolivia, Morales was that country’s first Indigenous president……続きを見る

In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization pro……続きを見る