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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683402688Author April J MayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint University of Florida PressPublisher University of Florida PressWeight(grams) 152g

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358012156Author John N CotterellFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 77g

"Estados Unidos resulta un tema controversial que implica la construcción y manipulación de imaginarios comúnmente plagados de prejuicios, pero también de divergencias e incongruencias. Este libro explora los mecanismos generativos de representación...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888024357Author Mohammad H TamdgidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press)Publisher Ahead Publishing House...

As new social actors have emerged in Latin America, the process of dealing with the legacy of still-unresolved human rights abuses has been significantly reinvigorated. This powerful text provides the first systematic analysis of the second wave of...

Siguiendo el análisis de Foucault, el tiempo se percibe como algo rico, fecundo, la vida, la dialéctica, mientras que el espacio es tratado como algo muerto, fijo, estático e inmobil. En ese marco, la identidad occidental se ha constituido en Europa y...

Fronteras de la modernidad designa el espacio conceptual e historizador que reuniera en el III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Culturales de la Universidad de Pittsburgh realizado en marzo de 2002, una gran diversidad de investigadores que han llegado...

Con un claro anclaje en la cultura y la historia de Chile, se reúnen veinte trabajos de reconocidos especialistas que recorren la producción artística de Lemebel en todas sus vertientes (crónica, ficción, performance, entrevistas y audiovisualidad). Se...

Este libro como número especial de la Revista Iberoamericana que lo acompaña nació de una circular que se mandó a los socios del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana pidiendo colaboraciones sobre sexualidad y literatura en América Latina...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939879059Author Louis NevaerFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones del MayabPublisher Ediciones del MayabWeight(grams) 527g

Now in its fifth edition, this leading reader has been updated with new readings and visual sources. This edition includes an added final chapter on current social movements to help students reflect on the ecological realities that inform their world. In...

A comprehensive, timely, and entertaining account of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of more than thirty discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789993431497Author Sarah AponteFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint BnphuPublisher BnphuWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358480139Author Three InitiatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Happy Hour BooksPublisher Happy Hour BooksWeight(grams) 122g

Now in its fifth edition, this leading reader has been updated with new readings and visual sources. This edition includes an added final chapter on current social movements to help students reflect on the ecological realities that inform their world. In...

This timely book takes the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States in 2015 as the point of departure for a Cuban perspective on future relations. Tracing the history of the long and contentious relationship, Francisco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978889Author Jedrek MularskiFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 608g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781715960711Author Varial StudioFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 203g

Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the...

Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the...

Set in the larger context of the evolution of international human rights, this cogent book examines the tragic development and ultimate resolution of Latin America's human rights crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Thomas Wright focuses especially on state...

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Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America is a collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169972032Author Irene Aloha WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 549g

As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution...

Throughout the 20th century, the emergence of authoritarian dictatorships in Latin America coincided with periods of social convulsion and economic uncertainty. This book covers 15 dictators representing every decade of the century and geographically...

A comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. Individual case studies of Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Argentina, and Mexico are presented, that provide a historical analysis of each...

Twenty essays by major filmmakers and critics provide the first survey of the evolution of documentary film in Latin America. While acknowledging the political and historical weight of the documentary, the contributors are also concerned with the...

This book traces the origin of the legend of El Dorado and the various expeditions that set out to locate that mysterious land of untold wealth in South America. Motivated by both fanciful rumors of a golden city ruled by a man who coated himself daily...

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with...

Una coleccion de ensayos escogidos del critico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura, hegemonia, y conflicto social. Abarca el periodo que va desde los ochenta del siglo pasado hasta hoy. Los...

Examining Latin American security in the post-Cold War era, policymakers and analysts from across the Americas assess the security threats and agendas of different subregions and evaluate the potential for wider hemispheric cooperation.With the decline...

Las ediciones críticas de la Colección Archivos desarrollan de facto un nuevo canon. Confluyen aquí las exigencias de la filología, la crítica genética, las diversas teorías de la recepción, la relación de texto y contexto y diferentes enfoques...

The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make...

Fritz Muller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenthcentury naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Muller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual...

Now thoroughly updated and revised-with a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)-this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latinx neighbors, illuminating rather than...

La aparición del número doscientos de Revista Iberoamericana representa un acontecimiento digno de celebrarse debido a la continuidad y permanencia de un proyecto editorial que convirtió a esta publicación en una de las más importantes dentro de su campo...

Este volumen contiene las actas del XXX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana que tuvo lugar en Pittsburgh en el mes de junio de 1994 con Cristina Peri como invitada de honor. Este congreso reunió escritores, pensadores y...

Este índice de la Revista Iberoamericana representa la realización de un proyecto iniciado por el Director Ejecutivo del IILI, Alfredo Roggiano, nos años antes de su muerte en octubre de 1991. El nuevo Índice incluye los estudios, notas, entrevistas,...