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Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins……続きを見る

Quem foi Machado de Assis? Uma biografia não começa com um fato, mas com um enigma. E o enigma de Machado de Assis foi cuidadosamente construído para esconder sua cor, sua origem e sua presença conc……続きを見る

Neste livro, trataremos da história da implantação, desde o Brasil colonial, da "grande siderurgia", a qual, finalmente, seria realizada em fins do histórico período do Estado Novo. Indústria de bas……続きを見る

Los afrodescendientes, que vinieron esclavizados desde África, estuvieron presentes en nuestros territorios desde el inicio mismo de la conquista. Muchos pudieron ganar su libertad, otros permanecie……続きを見る

A study of the production and movement of prints in colonial South America. Printed images have had a central place in art-historical studies of colonial Spanish America, but scholars have typically……続きを見る

Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award Winner of the Southern Indiana Civil War Roundtable Wabash Literary Prize In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national con……続きを見る

During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washi……続きを見る

A study of the ancient practice of Andean head shaping and its cultural connotations. In the late sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors in Peru’s Colca Valley encountered the Collaguas and Cavanas, ……続きを見る

For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repressio……続きを見る

¿Por qué Haití es tan pobre? ¿Por qué los panameños tienen una zona franca en el peor lugar de su geografía? ¿Por qué la revolución sandinista apuesta a mejorar su balanza comercial exportando clavo……続きを見る

This volume examines the experiences of São Paulo’s working class during Brazil’s Old Republic (1891–1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, di……続きを見る

From its Conquest to the Independence, this book deals with the History of Bolivia. "Between latitudes fourteen and a half and twenty-three and a half, the mighty Andean chain is massed into a plate……続きを見る

This book presents the History of Brazil, from the discovery to the establishment of the Republic. “On the 9th of March, 1500, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, a Portuguese nobleman of illustrious birth, but n……続きを見る

This book deals withe the history of Peru: the discovery of the Inca empire, the Spanish conquest of the territory, the colonial period, the wars of the independence and the development after the in……続きを見る

History of Colombia from the conquest and settlement to the modern Colombia. “When Alonso de Ojeda coasted along the Venezuelan shore in the spring of 1499 he stopped short just west of the Gulf of ……続きを見る

History of Uruguay. "Uruguay is the southeastern country of South America. It extends from latitude 30° to 35 degrees S. and from longitude 53° to 58° 30' W., lies south of the Province of Río Grand……続きを見る

This book presents the History of Argentina, from its discovery and Spanish colonization to the development of the country. "The description of the white man's spread over this immense country, the ……続きを見る

This book treats of the History of Ecuador : from the discovery of the land, the Spanish Conquest, the war of independence, to the formation of Ecuador and the development of the modern country. 続きを見る

This book deals with the general history of Chile from the discovery and the Spanish conquest.“About a century before Pizarro landed, Tupac Yupanqui, the greatest of the Inca conquerors, crossed the……続きを見る

History of Paraguay: from the beginning of the settlements, the colonization of the country, the war for independence, and the modern republic of Paraguay. "The beginnings of the settlements in Para……続きを見る

En el Bicentenario de la muerte del general Martín Miguel de Güemes todavía se discute su figura, y sigue siendo un héroe que se mantiene postergado respecto a patriotas indiscutidos como Manuel Bel……続きを見る

In America, anti-White racism is now official policy, veiled and unapologetically racist. In every aspect of public and private life, there is overt discrimination against one class of citizensーthe……続きを見る

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris shares insights on race and identity in America that she uncovered during her ten years at The Race Card Project in an insightful conversation. The qu……続きを見る

Declared a Highly Anticipated Book of 2024 by The Millions, Foreign Policy, and Alta "Absolutely remarkable... a profound contemplation on one of the major paradoxes of American lifeーand an homage ……続きを見る

Grito do Ipiranga, data nacional, heróis. Marcas da Independência, mito de origem do Brasil. Neste livro, sem tentar negar ou desprezar essas e outras representações, a autora recupera os riscos e a……続きを見る

La mita minera fue una de las prácticas más importantes de la era colonial, tanto en el aspecto económico y social como en el simbólico. Ella implicó la migración forzada, aunque temporal, de la pob……続きを見る

After a coup in 1964 that ousted Brazil’s leftist President João Goulart from power, a brutal military dictatorship took the reins of the state. As a result, elements of the persecuted Brazilian Com……続きを見る

Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families The history of Spanish pr……続きを見る

Este es un libro que exhibe por primera vez el testimonio de los jóvenes estudiantes y obreros de entonces, que recordarán con pasión y dolor, los entrañables momentos de su campaña política y la im……続きを見る

La connotación pública en el ejercicio de la política se ha cultivado en Chile básicamente desde el Congreso y La Moneda. Pero, sin duda, el mejor sitio para medirla siempre ha sido el teatro Caupol……続きを見る