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  • Landowners in Colonial Peru

    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1540 a small number of Spaniards founded the city of Arequipa in southwestern Peru. These colonists, later immigrants, and their descendants devoted considerable energy to exploiting the surrounding area. At first, like many other Spaniards in the Americas, they relied primarily on Indian producers; by the late 1500s they had acquired land and established small farms and estates. This, the ... Leer más

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  • Floreana

    A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos

    Embark alongside Margret Wittmer on her journey to the Galapagos to settle the island of Floreana in this remarkable first-hand account.600 miles from the mainland of Ecuador, Wittmer and her family traveled for weeks to Floreana in the early 1930s. Only after battling the tides for three days did they reach the shore; they were seeking a new life, after leaving everything in Germany for a place ... Leer más

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    Confronting Inequality in the Information Society

    de Bernardo Sorj ...
    The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technology between countries and within societies. We will explore how one factor, in this case information technology, can potentially support contradictory tendencies: towards greater freedom and social participation and to deeper social inequality and new ... Leer más

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  • The Silence and the Scorpion

    The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela

    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

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  • A Cheney Sampler

    Excerpts from Books by Glenn Alan Cheney

    Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from:-- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America-- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil-- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something-- Passion in an Improper Place-- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost nation of fugitive slaves-- Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Bogotá

    Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia

    de Garry Leech ...
    Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people living in conflict zones. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group, in August of 2006. He recalls nearly thirty years of travel and work ... Leer más

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  • The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

    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

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  • 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

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  • Mama Africa

    Reinventing Blackness in Bahia

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    Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness. Combining insights from anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, Pinho considers how Afro-Bahian ... Leer más

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  • The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader

    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, these essays provide an assessment of Latin American cultural studies, an account of the field’s historical formation, and an outline of its significant ideological and methodological trends and ... Leer más

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  • Historical Dictionary of Venezuela

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
    A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of one of the most complex, interesting, and vibrant countries in Latin America.Beyond what appears in the news or the facile explanations of political factions, Venezuelan history holds a wealth of knowledge that is largely unknown. With world-renowned figures such as Simón Bolívar, the largest oil reserves in the world, and enormous crises such as the one ... Leer más

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  • Street Occupations

    Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925

    Winner, Warren Dean Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), 2018Street vending has supplied the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro with basic goods for several centuries. Once the province of African slaves and free blacks, street commerce became a site of expanded (mostly European) immigrant participation and shifting state regulations during the transition from enslaved to free ... Leer más

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