著者:John Lynch
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2012年06月28日
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin……続きを見る
On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Indepe……続きを見る
From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embrace……続きを見る
著者:Brian R. Hamnett
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The second edition of this accessible study of Mexico includes two new features: an examination of cultural developments since Independence from Spain in 1821 and a discussion of contemporary issues……続きを見る
In this volume distinguished historian Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journey from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast ……続きを見る
Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book ……続きを見る
Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study……続きを見る
Born in La Paz in 1792, Andrés de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and……続きを見る
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural……続きを見る
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, thi……続きを見る
著者:Araceli Tinajero
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2010年02月01日
The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftl……続きを見る
Before the canal, there was the railroad to connect the great oceans. This short pieces tells of the building of the railroad across the isthmus in the mid nineteenth century and details a journey ……続きを見る
Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the……続きを見る
著者:Ann Miles
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年05月15日
Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urba……続きを見る
Over the last sixty years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been marred by ideological conflict, imbalances of power, and economic disparity. The U.S.-sponsored coup ……続きを見る
This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisi……続きを見る
The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America.
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著者:Magali M. Carrera
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2010年01月01日
**Using an interdisciplinary approach that also considers legal, literary, and religious documents of the period, Magali Carrera focuses on eighteenth-century portraiture and casta paintings to unde……続きを見る
著者:O. Hugo Benavides
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2010年01月01日
Between 1890 and 1930, the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, experienced a liberal revolution and a worker's movementーkey elements in shaping the Ecuadorian national identity. In this book, O. Hugo ……続きを見る
著者:Michael J. Casey
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年06月06日
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda captured fabled revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in what has become history's most reproduced photo. Here Michael Casey tells the remarkable story of thi……続きを見る
Este livro busca compreender alguns aspectos da sociedade brasileira do século XIX. Para isso, a partir da investigação do imaginário dos viajantes, reconstitui o cotidiano e as lutas sociais das cl……続きを見る
A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships be……続きを見る
著者:Steve Bourget
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2010年06月28日
The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD were perhaps the first ancient Andean society to attain state-level social complexity. Although they had n……続きを見る
著者:Anne Hayes
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年09月13日
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the co……続きを見る
The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.
Simón Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canv……続きを見る
Volumen 2, Libertad y frustración: 1810-1828
Carlos Augusto se convierte en un joven guerrillero y llegará a ser General de los ejércitos independentistas, agente diplom&aacu……続きを見る
著者:Sean F. McEnroe
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nat……続きを見る
The Garifuna people today live all along the Caribbean littoral of Central America, from Belize, through Guatemala and Honduras down to Nicaragua, and also in some of the biggest cities of the Unite……続きを見る
Modern day human traffickers and art thieves extort a wealthy Laguna Beach, California art collector, Paloma Zubiondo, by offering to release a young Ecuadorian sex-slave in exchange for one of Palo……続きを見る