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  • Moral Majorities across the Americas

    Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right

    de Benjamin A. Cowan ...
    This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. Benjamin A. Cowan chronicles the advent of a hemispheric religious movement whose current power and influence make headlines and generate no small amount of shock in Brazil and the United States. These two countries, Cowan argues, played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Securing Sex

    Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil

    de Benjamin A. Cowan ...
    In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Drawing on little-tapped archival records, he shows that by midcentury, conservatives — individuals and organizations, civilian as well as military — were firmly situated in a transnational network of right-wing cultural activists. They subsequently joined the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Brazil on the Rise

    The Story of a Country Transformed

    de Larry Rohter ...
    In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy ... Leer más

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  • Capoeira

    Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

    de Nestor Capoeira ...
    Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    de Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Leer más

    $38.19 USD

  • The Formation of Candomblé

    Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

    Traducido por Richard Vernon ...
    de Luis Nicolau Parés ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Parés traces the formation of Candomblé, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Brazil and not ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964û1974

    de Kristian Gustafson ...
    Kristian GustafsonÆs Hostile Intent reexamines one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. At the request of successive U.S. presidents, the CIA in conjunction with the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency first acted to prevent Chilean socialist Salvador Allende from becoming ... Leer más

    $19.95 USD

  • Autos and Progress

    The Brazilian Search for Modernity

    de Joel Wolfe ...
    Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • Remembering the Hacienda

    Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador

    de Barry J. Lyons ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa—Quichua-speaking indigenous people—worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Yutopian

    Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina

    de Joan M. Gero ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly, people were also producing and circulating exotic goods: polychrome ceramics, copper and gold ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • 14 Fun Facts About Machu Picchu: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #577

    de Jeannie Meekins ...
    Series Libro 577 - 15-Minute Books
    Machu Picchu is one of the few surviving ruins of the Inca Empire. It is situated in tropical forests on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains. It stretches five miles across a ridge and sits on top of two earthquake fault lines.The Spanish invaded South America looking for gold. They killed the Inca people. They destroyed their cities, but they never found Machu Picchu.How much do you know ... Leer más

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  • Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina

    Doña Petrona, Women, and Food

    de Rebekah E. Pite ...
    Doña Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896–1992) reigned as Argentina’s preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Perón in terms of the fame she enjoyed and the adulation she received. Her cookbook garnered tremendous popularity, becoming one ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD