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  • The FIFA World Cup 1930 - 2010

    Politics, Commerce, Spectacle and Identities

    Edited by Stefan Rinke, Kay Schiller ...
    Content As Brazil 2014 will yet again show, the FIFA World Cup is a mega-event followed by billions of spectators around the globe. This volume is the first scholarly attempt to capture the history of the FIFA World Cup in its entirety. From the first World Cup in 1930 to the one in 2010 the tournament has exerted strong influences and acted as an important indicator of political, economic, social ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conquistadors and Aztecs

    A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

    by Stefan Rinke ...
    A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Transnational Humans and Transnationalisms in the Humanities

    Crossing Boundaries in the Americas

    Edited by Max Paul Friedman, Stefan Rinke, Núria Vilanova ...
    Series series The Americas in the World Series
    This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today.Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of “transnationalism” in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has increased two-thirds since 1980, and the global circulation ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Latin America and the First World War

    by Stefan Rinke ...
    Series series Global and International History
    Using a broad variety of textual and visual sources, Latin America and the First World War goes beyond traditional diplomatic history and analyzes the global dimension of the history of the Great War. Filling a significant gap in transnational histories of the war, Stefan Rinke addresses political, social, and economic aspects as well as the cultural impact of the war on Latin America and vice ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke, Mario Rufer ...
    The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

    1917 and its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

    by Stefan Rinke, Michael Wildt, Birgit Aschmann, Jan Claas Behrends, Dietrich Beyrau, Robert Gerwarth, David Hopkins, Patrick J. Houlihan, Tomio Izao0, Abdulhamit Kirmizi1, Jörn Leonhard2, Ricardo Pérez Montfort3, Jan Schmidt4, María Inés Tato5, Adam Tooze6, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal7, Klaus Weinhauer8, Guoqi Xu9 ...
    Series Book 34 - Eigene und Fremde Welten
    1917 was an important year in world history and not just because of the United States' entry into the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It is rightly considered the turning point of the war and the foundational moment for determining structures of the short 20th century. Contemporaries realized these global connections yet in a historiography limited to the nation-state they did not gain ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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    Conquistadors and Aztecs

    A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

    by Stefan Rinke ...
    Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 43 min

    Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily about gold and the hunt for slaves.That a few hundred Spaniards destroyed the Aztec empire—a highly developed culture—is an old chestnut ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Kim MacQuarrie ...
    The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Chicano Studies Reader

    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

    Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black ...
    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Paulo Freire Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Paulo Freire

    by Jasmine Collins ...
    This book is your ultimate Paulo Freire resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paulo Freire's whole picture right away. Get countless Paulo Freire facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Paulo Freire Handbook is the ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Fascism

    by Robert O. Paxton ...
    What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.From the first violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,” through Mussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

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