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A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth century By the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off t……続きを見る

Now thoroughly updated and revisedーwith a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)ーthis book offers North Carolinians a better understandin……続きを見る

The Cold War claimed many lives and inflicted tremendous psychological pain throughout the Americas. The extreme polarization that resulted from pitting capitalism against communism held most of the……続きを見る

Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-spo……続きを見る

This work studies the development of bilateral relations in two pairs of states (dyads): Argentina-Brazil and Argentina-Chile. It takes on a moderate constructivist approach that incorporates into t……続きを見る

Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The boo……続きを見る

This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of t……続きを見る

This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Do……続きを見る

Este libro abarca, un panorama del proceso que forma y define al pueblo de Cuba en su esfuerzo secular por fraguarse un destino largo. Está dividido en seis partes, la primera, aborda los siglos XVI……続きを見る

En esta controvertida época, cuando los centros imperiales de poder tratan de impedir la independencia económica y política de los pueblos latinoamericanos, se convierte en tarea ineludible el conoc……続きを見る

En Africanía y etnicidad en Cuba el antropólogo cubano Jesús Guanche intenta mostrar la complejidad de nuestros orígenes culturales al responder preguntas como: ¿Cuántos fueron los componentes étnic……続きを見る

La figura del Che enmarca una paradoja de mitos respecto a su imagen que ha ocasionado ciertos enigmas y mistificaciones producidas por el sistema capitalista ーpara ellos un ser originador de viole……続きを見る

Tres ensayos complementarios para el estudio de las transiciones de América Latina se agrupan en esta obra. Se abordan aquí las estructuras que existieron en el subcontinente, así como las contienda……続きを見る

Afrocubanas: historia, pensamiento y prácticas culturales es una compilación que propone un enfoque de género sobre la discriminación racial. Los trabajos reunidos en el volumen muestran la historia……続きを見る

Este libro es una compilación de ensayos escritos por el autor en diversos años, de temáticas diferentes, publicados en libros y fuentes periódicas o, en algunos casos, inéditos. Muchos de estas ver……続きを見る

Este texto aborda la visión que se tiene de Cuba en los Estados Unidos de América, desde los mismos inicios de la república estadounidense. Se va analizando la construcción de metáforas referidas a ……続きを見る

Fidel, la estrategia política de la victoria es un breve ensayo que sistematiza y da a conocer la estrategia política seguida por Fidel Castro desde el comienzo de los años 50, hasta el triunfo revo……続きを見る

In 1888 and 1889, Brazil's most renowned writer, Machado de Assis, wrote a series of chronicles, or essays, for the Gazeta de Notícias, published in Rio de Janeiro. This was a very exciting time to ……続きを見る

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin T. Smith demonstrates in this his……続きを見る

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of ’72 have not enjoyed the sa……続きを見る

In the first history of laywomen and the church in colonial Mexico, Jessica L. Delgado shows how laywomen participated in and shaped religious culture in significant ways by engaging creatively with……続きを見る

Con este cuarto tomo de las Obras completas de José Agustín Blanco Barros culmina un cuidadoso trabajo, desarrollado a lo largo de una década, por los profesores Jorge Villalón y Alexander Vega, y q……続きを見る

Originally published in Puerto Rico in 1956 as Los derrotados, César Andreu Iglesias’s novel about a fateful Nationalist assault on a U.S. military installation in Puerto Rico is now available for t……続きを見る

In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and e……続きを見る

Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the “lost city” of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu “is a……続きを見る

An Atlas and Survey of Latin American History provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to both the human and physical geography of Latin America and the social, cultural, political and econ……続きを見る

This is the account of a series of enterprises undertaken in Guatemala during the 1830s in an attempt to draw immigrants and capital from Europe to continue the subjugation of the vast unpeopled was……続きを見る

The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war. In this definitive ac……続きを見る

In this well-rounded study, which was first published in 1952, author Fanchón Royer vividly presents Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz (1648-1695), a seventeenth-century Hieronymite nun of New Spain, known ……続きを見る

In this concise, readable account, the history of one of the Western Hemisphere's most important countries is recounted, from the first recorded appearance of early man around 10,000 B.C. down to th……続きを見る