anne - South America 1

Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Gerónimo de Oré (1554–1630) lived during a critical period in the formation of the modern world, as the g……続きを見る

Diese Ausgabe enthält die unglaublichen Geschichten und Biographien der berühmtesten Konquistadoren - die Geschichte der bahnbrechenden Seereisen, Expeditionen in die unerforschten Dschungel der neu……続きを見る

This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It assesses the contribution of these financial institu……続きを見る

En De empresarios a empleados Marianne González Le Saux busca romper el mito muy afincado en la historiografía nacional que le asigna al Estado Docente decimonónico un rol determinante en la creació……続きを見る

Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d’abord les comprendre. La renaissance est un art colombien. Ces jours-ci, les quartiers touristiques de Bogota, les remparts de Carthagène et même les ……続きを見る

Dame Mary Gilmore’s portrait is on the ten dollar note. But before she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for contributions to literature, she was Mary Cameron, a schoolteacher and femi……続きを見る

Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for ……続きを見る

»Fesselnd und wichtig! Dieses Buch hilft zu verstehen, warum viele NS-Verbrecher nach Argentinien flüchteten.« Olivier Guez, Autor des Bestsellers »Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele« Adolf Eichmann……続きを見る

Amazonian Cosmopolitans focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia incre……続きを見る

Epopée révolutionnaire. « Il n'y avait rien, il fit presque tout » : voici comment Malraux résume l'action du général José de San Martín (1778-1850). Le co-libérateur de l'Amérique du Sud se présent……続きを見る

Mit gewaltigen Finanzmitteln aus dem Erdölverkauf wollte Hugo Chávez in Venezuela den »Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts« einführen. Das Konzept stammte von deutschen Soziologen, die Umsetzung erfolg……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

For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development pro……続きを見る

During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indi……続きを見る

How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition? In The Politics of Memory, Joanne Rappaport answers this question by tracing the past three centuries of t……続きを見る

Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "racial" categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system. Adopti……続きを見る