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  • Spectacular Wealth

    The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns

    de Lisa Voigt ...
    Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic

    Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds

    de Lisa Voigt ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world.The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • In Patagonia

    de Bruce Chatwin ...
    The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnightAn exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and ... Leer más

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  • The Falklands War, Day by Day

    de James Gibbon ...
    In April 1982, Argentina's military Junta sent its armed forces to attack and occupy two British territories in the South Atlantic - the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Within days, Britain had put in motion its greatest naval operation since the Second World War, to expel the Argentines from its territory. This book is the story of the Falklands War - a day-by-day, chronological account of ... Leer más

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  • The History of the Empire of the Musulmans in Spain and Portugal

    de George Power ...
    The History of the Empire of the Musulmans in Spain and Portugal: From the First Invasion of the Moors, to Their Ultimate Expulsion from the Peninsula ... Leer más

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  • From Tolerance to Tyranny

    A Cautionary Tale from Fifteenth-Century Spain

    de Erna Paris ...
    One thousand years ago, a civilization existed in Spain that was famed throughout Europe. To the horror of the Christian rulers to the north, Jews, Christians, and Moors lived together in harmony — and in doing so they created one of the most extraordinary societies the West has ever known.In the span a few hundred years, however, Spain would transform itself from a pluralistic, multicultural ... Leer más

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  • La Roja

    How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World

    de Jimmy Burns ...
    La Roja is bestselling author Jimmy Burns tremendous opus on Spanish soccer. From its early beginnings when the first soccer on the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires was played by British sailors and engineers, through to the influx of South American stars, and similarly inspirational Italians, Dutchman and Scandinavians, Burns show how the engagement of foreigners with home-grown Spanish talent ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Buried Alive

    The True Story of the Chilean Mining Disaster and the Extraordinary Rescue at Camp Hope

    de Manuel Pino Toro ...
    The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the worldOn August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. Finally, a note came back from below--the miners were ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

    de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ...
    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, ca. 1488/1490 Valladolid, ca. 1557/1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition. He is remembered as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans, first published in 1542 as La Relación (The Report), and later known as Naufragios (Shipwrecks). In early 1527 ... Leer más

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  • Portugal in European and World History

    de Malyn Newitt ...
    Portugal is a country that has sometimes been dismissed as small and relatively unimportant. Portugal in European and World History, however, demonstrates that the contrary is true, showing that Portugal has been crucial to the development of Europe and the modern world. Spanning many centuries, from early Moorish times to the Atlantic Empire; the English Alliance of 1650 - 1900; African colonies; ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Futebol Nation

    The Story of Brazil through Soccer

    de David Goldblatt ...
    No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol Nation is an ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Granada

    A Pomegranate in the Hand of God

    de Steven Nightingale ...
    Andalusia: ancient homeland of the mysterious Iberians, birthplace of Roman emperors, seedbed of modern Anarchism, and unmarked gravesite of Spain's greatest lyric poet. Perhaps most importantly, Andalusia is home to the city of Granada, where a hybrid culture composed of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with ... Leer más

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