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Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading histo……続きを見る

Archaeoastronomy and the Maya illustrates archaeoastronomical approaches to ancient Mayan cultural production. The book is contextualized through a history of archaeoastronomical investigations into……続きを見る

Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal diseaseーas threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the worldーcalled for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battl……続きを見る

Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America presents a nuanced and evidence-based discussion of both the acceptance and co-optation of the transitional justice framework and……続きを見る

Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, an……続きを見る

"Condannatemi, non importa, la storia mi assolverà": è il 1953 e con queste parole pronunciate di fronte al tribunale del regime di Batista Fidel Castro dimostra di aver già capito che l'avventura r……続きを見る

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement fro……続きを見る

Cuba è un paese che evoca un notevole fascino e ricco di una complessa storia militare. Una guida veloce ed esauriente, che approfondisce le tattiche e le strategie militari degli eserciti cu……続きを見る

Of all the Eye-Witness books the Sara Yorke Stevenson's Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862 - 1867 is one of the most lucid, informed, and balanced. He writ……続きを見る

In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in……続きを見る

The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating wha……続きを見る

The Mayan Empire Uncovering The Mysteries of Maya (Forgotten Empires Series) The Mayan culture is utterly fascinating and holds many mysterious secrets. In this book you will discover all about the ……続きを見る

On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, b……続きを見る

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections……続きを見る

While studying the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Guatemalan Maya in the Newberry Library in Chicago, two archeologists stumble upon a hidden message embeded in the text. Unknown to them, using a……続きを見る

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-to-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600. Over two hundred entries written by mo……続きを見る

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its ……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So gre……続きを見る

El libro “Veinte maravillas de Yucatán” se centra solo en los lugares y recintos que se consideran extraordinarios y que merecen una explicación mucho más detallada. Se han seleccionado cuidadosamen……続きを見る

Using Costa Rica as a example, Longley carefully examines the development of the successful relationship between a nonindustrialized country and the United States, revealing the complex forces at wo……続きを見る

Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific s……続きを見る

A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American……続きを見る

The acclaimed chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya. Includes the history of the major Maya sites, including Palenque, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Tuloom, Copan, and mor……続きを見る

Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific s……続きを見る

In Lateinamerika ist Simón Bolívar politisches Idol und Symbolfigur. Bis heute leben die Legenden über ihn weiter, ist er Thema staatstragender Reden, Stoff für Kunst und Literatur. Michael Zeuske ……続きを見る

In 1981, more than a thousand civilians around El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the country’s U.S.-trained army. The story was coveredーand soon forgottenーby the international news media……続きを見る

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique case study examines America's involvement in the El Salvador civil war of the 1980s. Through the 1980s, the……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Panama began its modern history as a semi-colonial appendage of the United States (US). ……続きを見る

El Salvador might be the smallest country in Central America by territory but it has had a significant impact on the region and played an important role in U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America. ……続きを見る

Le baron de Wogan a beaucoup voyagé dans sa vie, et il aimait écrire. De ces deux passions combinées il créait des récits passionnants, où l’action et l’aventure tiennent la bonne place. Dolorita en……続きを見る