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  • Rainforest Cowboys

    The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia

    de Jeffrey Hoelle ...
    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    This ambitious interdisciplinary study is the first to examine the interlinked economic uses and cultural practices and beliefs surrounding cattle in Western Amazonia, where cattle raising is at the center of debates about economic development and environWinner, Brazil Section Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2016The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Conquistadors

    Searching for El Dorado: The Terrifying Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires

    de John Pemberton ...
    In the sixteenth century the King of Spain issued his soldiers with a three-pronged mission: to find gold, spread the word of Christianity and claim new territories for Spain. The Conquistadors, as they became known, set off into the world to do just that, and nothing was to stand in their way. Some say that the discovery of the New World is the greatest event in history. Others, that it amounted ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Cangalli: An American Company Searches for an Ancient River of Gold

    de James E. Bender ...
    Four hundred years of gold mining history took place in an area of the Tipuani Gold District of Bolivia. One small Denver gold mining company was convinced that their 5,000 acre gold claim held evidence of an ancient river system containing large amounts of gold. Modern technology of today was able to remove the gold from this ancient river and the Tipuani River. A theory held in question by ... Leer más

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  • Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil

    1500–1600

    de Alida C. Metcalf ...
    Doa Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern Americas. But these famous individuals were only a few of the many thousands of people who, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Governing Indigenous Territories

    Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    de Juliet S. Erazo ...
    Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Days and Nights of Love and War

    de Eduardo Galeano ...
    Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

  • Transatlantic Obligations

    Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain

    de Jane E. Mangan ...
    The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world. Family began to shift when, from the moment of their arrival in 1532, Spaniards were joined with elite ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Women Build the Welfare State

    Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955

    de Donna J. Guy ...
    In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Kalamata Diary

    Greece, War, and Emigration

    de Eduardo D. Faingold ...
    From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and contextualizes the major events in modern Greek history about which Salivaras writes in her diary. ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Myths and Legends of Alaska (Illustrations)

    de Various, Katharine Berry Judson ...
    Example in this ebookTHE RAVEN MYTHEskimo (Bering Straits)It was in the time when there were no people on the earth plain. The first man for four days lay coiled up in the pod of the beach pea. On the fifth day he stretched out his feet and burst the pod. He fell to the ground and when he stood up he was a full-grown man. Man looked all around him and then at himself. He moved his hands and arms, ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism

    de Richard A. Gordon ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
    A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon’s Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films released between 1976 and 2005, Gordon examines how the films both define the national community and influence viewer understandings of Brazilianness. Though the films he examines span decades, they all ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Contemporary Carioca

    Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene

    de Frederick Moehn ...
    Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD