Azar - Americas 1

This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less vi……続きを見る

El historiador Gabriel Salazar Vergara expone una síntesis de los principales aspectos macroeconómicos y microeconómicos del período así como los hitos que marcaron la modernización del país: Sector……続きを見る

If you are searching for a succinct yet thorough introduction to Mexican painting in the modern age, you have arrived. Spanning more than 150 years of history, Mexican Painting: Nineteenth and Twent……続きを見る

Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her death, Ernestine L. Rose (1810ー1892) was one of the foremost orators and social reformers of her era. A fearless human rights activist……続きを見る

A obra 300 anos de histórias negras em Minas Gerais: Temas, fontes e metodologias, organizada por Marileide Lázara Cassoli, aborda questões histórica, social e racial. Reunido em doze capítulos, o l……続きを見る

Surge la iniciativa de escribir una sintética historia del trabajo y la lucha sindical en Chile, para despertar ese interés y la sociabilización de ese conocimiento, en un estilo breve, sencillo y l……続きを見る

Collecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America’s Gilded Age was fraught with risk because of the uncertain identities of the artists and the conflicting interests of the dealers. Stanley Ma……続きを見る

This book explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War II, uncovering the ways scientific and cultural discourses of 'race' continued to circulate ……続きを見る

Con este libro el autor da continuidad al a otro de su autoría: Madre América: un siglo de violencia y dolor. Ahora presenta de manera cronológica algunos de los artículos que en la más reciente déc……続きを見る

American civilization has been shaped by four decisive forces: the frontier, migration, sectionalism and federalism. The frontier has offered abundance to those who would/could take advantage of its……続きを見る

Surrounded by an unfamiliar language, references and ideas, many students coming here to learn English along with newcomers hoping to start a new life in the United States find themselves quickly ov……続きを見る

The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J. stallment in the Cities of the Prairie project. It completes an ongoing multi-generational, comparative study of ten medium-sized communitie……続きを見る

Costa Rica has been largely recognized as a democratic and politically stable country in a region (Central America) characterized by instability, dictatorships, and social inequality. Several social……続きを見る

After seventeen years as dictator of Chile, in 1990 Augusto Pinochet ceremoniously handed the presidential sash to the leader of his legal opposition to formalize the peaceful transition to civilian……続きを見る

High atop the Southern mountains lived the Appalachian settlers. They were people unconcerned with convention who lived removed from the throes of civilization for more than a century. From mighty b……続きを見る

The Market House of Fayetteville, North Carolina is a building of controversy. While to many it is the site of many important events in North Carolina including the ratification of the Federal Const……続きを見る

In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adh……続きを見る

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a……続きを見る