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  • The Seduction of Brazil

    The Americanization of Brazil during World War II

    de Antonio Pedro Tota ...
    Traducido por Lorena B. Ellis ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the earlobe to indicate agreement, friendship, and all that was positive and good—yet another indication of the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

    The History of the Shipwreck That Inspired Moby Dick

    de Howard Brinkley ...
    In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore.It’s story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in his only novel; and, most notoriously of them all, it served as the inspiration for Herman Melville’s ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    de Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

    de Susanna B. Hecht ...
    A "compelling and elegantly written" history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, ... Leer más

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  • Culture Wars in Brazil

    The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945

    de Daryle Williams ...
    In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and everyday citizens over the state’s power to regulate and consecrate the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Contested Communities

    Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951

    de Thomas Miller Klubock ...
    Series series Comparative and international working-class history
    In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires

    de Kris Lane ...

    $32.99 USD

  • This Land Is Ours Now

    Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

    de Wendy Wolford ...
    In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations between localized moral economies and official movement ideologies. Wolford develops her ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Stories of South America

    de E. C. Brooks ...
    The history of the western hemisphere begins rather with South America than with North America. Students of United States history are familiar with the life of Christopher Columbus and his finding of the New World. Although he pointed the way for European nations to found valuable colonies in North America, there was an interval of a hundred and fifteen years between Columbus's discovery in 1492 ... Leer más

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  • Colonial Habits

    Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru

    de Kathryn Burns ...
    In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite, and reproducing an Andean colonial order in which economic and spiritual interests were inextricably ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Sharing This Walk

    An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil

    de Karina Biondi ...
    Traducido por John F. Collins ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. Karina Biondi’s rich ethnography of the PCC is uniquely informed by her insider-outsider status. Prior to his acquittal, Biondi’s husband was incarcerated in a PCC-dominated prison for several years. During the period of Biondi’s intense and intimate ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888

    de Ian Read ...
    Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888 explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that slavery in Brazil was hierarchical: slaves' fleeting chances to form families, work jobs that would not ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD