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  • Underdevelopment and the Development of Law

    Corporations and Corporation Law in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

    by Robert C. Means ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development. He shows that Colombia’s corporate law provisions for commercial codes held only a tenuous relationship to reality and that, even today, Colombia’s commercial development continues to be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century

    Updated and Revised Edition

    by Luis Alberto Romero ...
    Translated by James P. Brennan ...
    A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the “Argentine dilemma” and the challenges that the country faces as it tries to rebuild democracy. Luis Alberto Romero brilliantly and painstakingly ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    The publication of the text of the Sarmiento manuscript in the Library of Gastingen University, has enabled the Council to present the members of the Hakluyt Society with the most authentic narrative of events connected with the history of the Incas of Peru. ... Read more

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  • Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70

    Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina

    by Gabriele Esposito ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America.Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay and establishing Brazil as the predominant military power.Despite the importance of the war, little ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    by Bartolomé de las Casas ...
    A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by the Spanish Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas.This book is about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

    by Mauricio A. Font ...
    Coffee and Transformation in São Paulo, Brazil advances a distinctive interpretation of the dynamism of the São Paulo region since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Large and entrepreneurial coffee landlords opened the frontier to the west of the state capital, playing a key role in making the state and Brazil the world's largest coffee producer for international markets. However, many of ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Pillaging the Empire

    Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

    by Kris E Lane ...
    Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault

    Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900

    by Tanja Christiansen ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    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, childrearing, and marriage, and often to defend their very definitions of honor. Drawing on the trial transcripts of Cajamarca, a northern Peruvian province, from more than a century ago, this book shares ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Our Indigenous Ancestors

    A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877–1943

    by Carolyne R. Larson ...
    Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carolyne Larson demonstrates how scientists, collectors, the press, and the public engaged with Argentina’s native American artifacts and remains (and ... Read more

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  • Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

    Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

    by Alcira Duenas ...
    Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial ... Read more

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  • Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing

    by Kathryn M Mayers ...
    The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing examines the way words about pictures in the writing of three Spanish American Creoles-Hernando Domínguez ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Chavez's Children

    Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America

    by Manuel Anselmi ...
    Most publications on the political situation in Venezuela are journalistic and lack a scientific, and particularly sociological, approach. Chavez’s Children: Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America is the first sociological work on the ideological system in Venezuela. This book deals with the deep social structures of Chávez’s power, its origins, its evolution in history, its dynamics, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD