France - Americas 1

Esta obra se propone superar la rígida división que suelen establecer los estudios americanistas entre las sociedades andinas y las sociedades de la selva amazónica. En el primer tomo, F. M. Renard-……続きを見る

This book tells us how the United states of America was formed, its first ten presidents and how they performed towards making America what it is today. It also lets us know the most popular preside……続きを見る

The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature Winner of the La……続きを見る

Sulla scorta dei Comentarios Reales di Garcilao de la Vega, l’opera storico-etnografica pubblicata a Lisbona nel 1609 che fece conoscere in Europa la storia, i costumi e le tradizioni dell’antico Pe……続きを見る

Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown ……続きを見る

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance……続きを見る

"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."ーThe Nation Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if ……続きを見る

In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. Th……続きを見る

Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity.……続きを見る

Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particular……続きを見る

L'Impero inca fu il più vasto impero precolombiano del continente americano. La sua esistenza va dal XIII secolo fino al XVI secolo e la sua capitale fu Cuzco, nell'attuale Perù. L'autore Francesco ……続きを見る

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, ma……続きを見る

This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, applying interdisciplinary approaches (archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography) to reconstructing the complex and enigmatic civilizatio……続きを見る