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The Whole Armour of God examines and reassesses the role of the Anglican army chaplains in the Great War. The tensions and ambiguities of their role in the trenches resulted in criticism of their ac……続きを見る

In April 1982, Argentina's military Junta sent its armed forces to attack and occupy two British territories in the South Atlantic - the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Within days, Britain ha……続きを見る

Not every world culture that has battled colonization has suffered or died. In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings for cen……続きを見る

Though the law and courts of nineteenth-century Peru were institutions created by and for the ruling elite, women of all classes used the system to negotiate the complexities of property rights, chi……続きを見る

In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even today are one of the stro……続きを見る

Beatriz, bela e sedutora virgem, atrai o chefe indígena de uma tribo rebelde no Brasil. A paixão é arrebatadora mas o que o nativo não sabe é que a deslumbrante po……続きを見る

Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad. Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana (a fictional nation) which has a long history of tyranny, revoluti……続きを見る

Apasionante novela, que nos relata parte de los acontecimientos mas importantes del pueblo de Cotija Michoacán, 1918, cuando Inés Chávez el Indio y sus hordas devastaron gran parte del estado y sobr……続きを見る

The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation of human rights, union busting, and regressive ……続きを見る

A collection of three accounts of Peril, Adventure and Captivity in the 18th and 19th century : "The Sufferings of the Picard Family after the Shipwreck of the Medusa in the Year 1816" ……続きを見る

______________________ 'Erotica has been languishing on the top shelf for years, but a new generation of woman writers is moving it from the fringes to the literary mainstream' - Observer Magazine '……続きを見る

The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in ……続きを見る

Robert Burke, is kidnapped in the trunk of a rental car in the middle of a shanty-town gunfight. Brazilian Scrub is the story of how he got there as well as the story of the tragic mayhem of urban v……続きを見る

In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Evo Morale……続きを見る

Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Gr……続きを見る

De cuentos" es una antología del escritor Enrique Epelbon, donde se pueden encontrar cuentos cortos escritos con claridad y en un español sencillo, propio de su origen argentino. Cuenta historias en……続きを見る

Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contra……続きを見る

Advierto al viajero que quiere ver estancias en la Patagonia, que debe despojarse de preconceptos, de prejuicios, de comparaciones con las estancias del norte. Esta es otra geografía que ha generado……続きを見る

Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s Nationa……続きを見る

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Ch�vez places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and program……続きを見る

This edition features Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface CHAPTER I. THE COLONIES. HISTORY AND LOCATION. The First Settlers COLONIZATION IN INDIVIDUAL STATES. Introductory Remarks Bahia Minas Geraes ……続きを見る

La violencia en Argentina, como en el resto de América Latina, ha estado unida a su historia desde los inicios de su camino como nación independiente. Este libro explica con lucidez la formación ……続きを見る

The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted t……続きを見る

From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, RunaーQuichua-speaking indigenous peopleーworked on these lar……続きを見る

Savages is a firsthand account, by turn hilarious, heartbreaking, and thrilling, of a small band of Amazonian warriors and their battle to preserve their way of life. Includes eight pages of photos. 続きを見る

'The Broadway Travellers contains few more exciting stories than that of Staden.' Sunday Times 'The present translation of his adventures among the Brazilian cannibals, with which the gruesome origi……続きを見る

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion "brings the country to life" (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a par……続きを見る

Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of ……続きを見る

Two of the most prominent trends in world affairs over the past decadethe projection of American power abroad and high energy priceshave made for some strange bedfellows. Flush with oil revenues, au……続きを見る

The hunt for Ernesto “Che” Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells ……続きを見る