Mic - Latin America 1

The story of nineteenth-century Paraguay is the story of the dawn of modern nationhood in the worldーand a devastating war is the culmination of this tale. The War of the Triple Alliance (1864–70), ……続きを見る

Esta obra aborda los procesos de cambio institucional en España e Hispanoamérica durante los años que fueron desde la guerra de los Siete Años hasta la formación de los estados nacionales. Para mant……続きを見る

The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual m……続きを見る

The British Indian Civil Service was a small elite, which administered and governed a vast population. From their number were drawn the Governors of the various provinces. Relatively little work has……続きを見る

The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both h……続きを見る

Lyndon Johnson invaded the Dominican Republic. Richard Nixon sponsored a coup attempt in Chile. Ronald Reagan waged covert warfare in Nicaragua. Nearly a dozen times during the Cold War, American pr……続きを見る

La Guerre de 1914-1918, par son caractère global, ses innovations technologiques, ou encore son degré de violence, marque une étape significative de l’histoire contemporaine. La Belgique, premier pa……続きを見る

La conquête de vastes empires coloniaux par les puissances européennes, suivie par des mouvements migratoires d’ampleur variable selon les territoires et les époques, a donné naissance à de nouvelle……続きを見る

Après avoir abordé les droites radicales européennes et américaines au vingtième siècle sous l’angle des doctrinaires, des vulgarisateurs et des passeurs puis analysé l’internationalisation de leurs……続きを見る

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) is arguably the most popular and influential American folk song collector of the 20th century. Pursuing a mission of both preserving and popularizing folk music, Lomax moved b……続きを見る

Dans ce lointain Cuzco, à la fois cœur et frontière d’un empire, cerné par des montagnes au mystère redoutable pour l’Espagnol qui répugne à s’y aventurer, vit un monde tragique. Deux masses inégale……続きを見る

Este estudio reconstituye las prácticas colectivas e individuales de un grupo de la élite colonial, los oficiales de la administración de finanzas en la Nueva España, en el que se asocia la trayecto……続きを見る

Sinopsis: Sumérgete en la historia oculta del hombre más buscado del mundo, Pablo Escobar, a través de un vibrante viaje visual que fusiona arte digital, ilustraciones impactantes y relatos fascinan……続きを見る

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic tu……続きを見る

To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionar……続きを見る

«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurg……続きを見る

Historians argue that the years following the Emancipation Proclamation and those immediately after the Civil War were formative years in the trajectory of the United States as a country. So, why th……続きを見る

Crime and insecurity are top public policy concerns in Latin America. Political leaders offer tough-on-crime solutions that include increased policing and punishments, and decreased civilian oversig……続きを見る

Latin American societies were created as pre-industrial colonies, that is, peoples whose cultures and racial makeup were largely determined by having been conquered by Spain or Portugal. In all thes……続きを見る

The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America by The Economist editor and author of Brazil. Latin America has often been condemned to fai……続きを見る

The bestselling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South Americaーnow fully revised and updated. Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's bests……続きを見る

Em lembrança aos 50 anos do golpe militar no Chile em 11 de setembro de 1973. Em 11 de setembro de 1973, Salvador Allende, presidente democraticamente eleito do Chile três anos antes, foi assassinad……続きを見る

An indispensable resource for readers interested in Venezuelan history, this book analyzes Venezuela's economic crisis through the context of its political and social history. For decades, the econo……続きを見る

For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and……続きを見る

José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive a……続きを見る

In this book, Michael J. C. Taylor outlines an intellectual history of the six essential phrases of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution. These phrases convey what the essential goals and purposes ……続きを見る

While Portuguese-speaking Brazil declared war on Germany in the First World War, the rest of South America held back. In the end no other South American nation joined the fighting. But four - Bolivi……続きを見る

Oscar Micheaux's 'The Adventures of a Black Man in Wild West' is a groundbreaking piece of literature that depicts the challenges faced by African Americans in the American West during the late 19th……続きを見る

To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionar……続きを見る

Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward……続きを見る