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  • The Adventures of China Iron

    de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ...
    Traducido por Iona Macintyre, Fiona Mackintosh ...
    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with a sentimental ... Leer más

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  • Connections after Colonialism

    Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

    de Matthew Brown, Will Fowler, Josep M. Fradera, Carrie Gibson, Brian Roger Hamnett, Maurizio Isabella, Iona Macintyre, Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Gabriel Paquette0, David Rock3, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara4, Jay Sexton5, Reuben Zahler6 ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

    de Shokoofeh Azar ...
    A grieving family flees Tehran after the Islamic Revolution in this novel of "magical realism with a Persian twist" translated from Farsi (The Guardian, UK).When their home in Tehran is burned to the ground by zealots, killing their thirteen-year-old daughter Bahar, a once-prominent family flees to a small village. There, they hope to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But ... Leer más

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  • Making Samba

    A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

    de Marc A Hertzman ...
    In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Dancing with Dynamite

    Social Movements and States in Latin America

    de Benjamin Dangl ...
    Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere. ... Leer más

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  • Exorcising Terror

    The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet

    de Ariel Dorfman ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as a suspense thriller, filled with court-room drama and sudden reversals of fortune, the book at the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Silence and the Scorpion

    The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela

    de Brian A. Nelson ...
    On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chavez. Led by Pedro Carmona and Carlos Ortega, the opposition represented a cross-section of society furious with Chavez's economic policies, specifically his mishandling of the Venezuelan oil industry. But as the day progressed the march turned violent, sparking a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Brazil

    The Fortunes of War

    de Neill Lochery ...
    In 1939, Brazil seemed a world away from the chaos overtaking Europe. Yet despite its bucolic reputation as a distant land of palm trees and pristine beaches, Brazil’s natural resources and proximity to the United States made it strategically invaluable to both the Allies and the Axis alike. As acclaimed historian Neill Lochery reveals in The Fortunes of War, Brazil’s wily dictator Getúlio ... Leer más

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  • Roots of Brazil

    de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Traducido por G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Leer más

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  • The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

    de Charles F. Walker ...
    Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today. ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree

    Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949

    de Erick D. Langer ...
    Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Conflict in the Early Americas

    An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests

    Edición de Rebecca M. Seaman ...
    This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivations, and cultural practices of the region.As the study of world history evolves from a Eurocentric perspective to a more global viewpoint, formerly marginalized groups are now the focus of discussion, ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD