For more than four centuries, communities of maroons (men and women who escaped slavery) dotted the fringes of plantation America, from Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States. Today their……続きを見る
著者：David Parker
出版社： McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日： 2022年11月11日
The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt ……続きを見る
著者：Edward P. Pompeian
出版社： Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日： 2022年04月26日
Why did trade with the United States prolong Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles?
From 1790 to 1815, much of the Atlantic World was roiled by European imperial wars. W……続きを見る
In "Dutch Guiana," William Gifford Palgrave offers a meticulous exploration of the geography, culture, and society of this intriguing South American region, situated between Brazil and the Caribbean……続きを見る
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western front……続きを見る
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis expla……続きを見る
In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity……続きを見る
