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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by the Spanish Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas.This book is about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples……続きを見る

The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility. Sandra L. Hans……続きを見る

The legendary El Doradoーthe city of goldーremains a mere legend, but astonishing new discoveries are revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously ……続きを見る

This book is the first to describe indigenous archaeology in Latin America for an English speaking audience. Eighteen chapters primarily by Latin American scholars describe relations between indigen……続きを見る

Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh accou……続きを見る

Throughout Latin America's history the world of work has been linked to race, class, and gender within the larger framework of changing social, political, and economic circumstances both in the regi……続きを見る

Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outsta……続きを見る

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and ……続きを見る

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguaya……続きを見る

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nati……続きを見る

Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Me……続きを見る

Descubre la esencia del alma puertorriqueña a través de la obra maestra de Abelardo Díaz Alfaro. Terrazo no es solo un libro de cuentos; es el espejo de un pueblo. Publicado originalmente en 1947, e……続きを見る

Reseña Crítica: El Ocaso de los Reinos del Caribe En Leyendas Americanas, José Güell y Renté despliega una narrativa épica y elegíaca que rescata las voces silenciadas de la conquista en Kiskeya, Ay……続きを見る

Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues ……続きを見る

América Latina: A Independência Inacabada é o terceiro livro da série Textos de Apoio da Coleção Educação Popular, publicada pela Editora Kotev, uma obra que também integra a Trilogia Expansão Ocide……続きを見る

From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more freq……続きを見る

One of Latin America’s leading sociologists, Manuel Antonio Garretón explores contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work originally published in Spanish in 1995. He pay……続きを見る

“A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.” ー American Political Scienc……続きを見る

This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere ー capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increa……続きを見る

This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes ……続きを見る

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Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story ……続きを見る

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as “creoles” who moved from the Old Worl……続きを見る

Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities……続きを見る

In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. From the overthrow o……続きを見る

In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decad……続きを見る

A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980……続きを見る

The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ……続きを見る

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields ……続きを見る

In an era when the global community is confronted with challenges posed by violent nonstate organizations ー from FARC in Colombia to the Taliban in Afghanistan ー our understanding of the nature an……続きを見る