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In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granad……続きを見る

Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ow……続きを見る

American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Brutus, auch Du! (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aus dem Buch: "Es waren aber doch……続きを見る

Found in an envelope in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's house after his death in 2005, Map Drawn by a Spy is the world-renowned writer's autobiographical account of the last four months he spent in his ……続きを見る

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and rut……続きを見る

An account of modernization and technological innovation in nineteenth-century Brazil that provides a distinctly Brazilian perspective. Existing scholarship on the period describes the beginnings of……続きを見る

La formazione militare dell'eroe dei due mondi iniziò negli anni in cui entrò al servizio della repubblica secessionista del Rio Grande do Sul. Nonostante l'ampia pubblicistica riguardante le impres……続きを見る

This is a history book that studies the thought and actions of José Gervasio Artigas throughout the decade of his prominence (1810 –1820) as leader of the Federal League, which united his native ter……続きを見る

Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering in……続きを見る

This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the Unit……続きを見る

This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmo……続きを見る

A historically significant memoir offering a firsthand perspective on life, identity, and cultural transformation in nineteenth-century Cuba. Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Arm……続きを見る

Die Autorin, die mehrere Jahre bei den Yequana-Indianern im Dschungel Venezuelas gelebt hat, schildert eindrucksvoll deren harmonisches, glückliches Zusammenleben und entdeckt seine Wurzeln im Umgan……続きを見る

Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical deve……続きを見る

Cuando Pedro Lísperguer Wittemberg llegaba a América lo hacía con feudo imperial: "no embargante que es alemán y cualquier provisión que haya en contrario", siguiendo las propias palabras del empera……続きを見る

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victimsーincluding the deadーduring the Cold War state vi……続きを見る

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and dea……続きを見る

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil’s aerospace strategies. Brazil is becoming increasingly important geopolitically, and several st……続きを見る

According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the worldーa distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America ……続きを見る

Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inacce……続きを見る

The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo Benzoni’s popular account of his adventures in the Americas and the Spanish col……続きを見る

Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American……続きを見る

Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of Revolution (1780–1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in recent revolution-center……続きを見る

La familia alemana Lísperguer, protegida de Carlos V, y de gran éxito en el Chile y Perú colonial de los siglos XVI y XVII, ha despertado un enorme interés mediático, convirtiéndose en un verdadero ……続きを見る

O livro Partidos políticos e disputa eleitoral no Brasil é o resultado de uma pesquisa que tem como objetivo reconstruir criticamente os acontecimentos políticos cruciais do final dos governos de ca……続きを見る

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) is Spain’s master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Span……続きを見る

Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Uncon……続きを見る

“This book is proof that today’s Latin American literature reaches far and digs deep. Alfredo Molano isn’t a novelist or poet, but rather a sociologist who realizes that ‘the way to understand wasn’……続きを見る

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and povertyーis the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the worl……続きを見る