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The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. Joao...

The BBC Latin American Service was created in 1938, funded by the British Ministry of Information, to counter fascist propaganda broadcast to Latin America. Now considered one of the major Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, Brazilian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583673409Author Salim LamraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

This abridgement of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and...

Ariel Armony focuses, in this study, on the role played by Argentina in the anti-Communist crusade in Central America. This systematic examination of Argentina's involvement in the Central American drama of the late 1970s and early 1980s fine-tunes our...

El trabajo de Antonio Cornejo-Polar, a quien este volumen rinde homenaje, alimentó durante varias décadas la reflexión más seria y articulada que se haya producido en Perú sobre la crítica cultural que se vincula a la raíz misma del campo interpretado, a...

In Of Love and Other Passions Guiomar Duenas-Vargas delves into the world of emotions among the bourgeois elite in Bogota from the end of the colonial period to 1870. While most studies of the period focus solely on the country's political activity,...

Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America...

"Early medieval geographical tradition resembles Andersen's ugly duckling. It often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, all because people almost invariably misunderstand its true nature." Thus begins Natalia Lozovsky's new book,...

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories...

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away, and today the gap is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic...

Documents counterimperialism in Chilean music since the 1960sGringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music examines anti-Americanism in Latin America as manifested in Chilean music in recent history. From a folk-based movement in the 1960s and...

Documents counterimperialism in Chilean music since the 1960sGringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music examines anti-Americanism in Latin America as manifested in Chilean music in recent history. From a folk-based movement in the 1960s and...

Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region's history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and scholarship of the late twentieth century. Collisions with History shows how "fictional histories" of...

What discourses are produced about the ""Middle East"" by those from the outside? Between the Middle East and the Americas takes a transnational cultural studies approach to examining the different and contradictory signification's of...

In this extensively researched book, Anna Clayfield challenges contemporary Western views on the militarization of Cuba. She argues that, while the pervasiveness of armed forces in revolutionary Cuba is hard to refute, it is the guerrilla legacy, ethos,...

In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the Dirty War, a violent campaign by authoritarian South American regimes to repress left-wing groups and any others who were deemed subversive. Over the course of a decade, Argentina s military rulers tortured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607321866Author Ethelia Ruiz MedranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams)...

A long history of migration, trade, and shared interests links China to Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past twenty years, China has increased direct investment and restructured trade relations in the region. In addition, Chinese public sector...

'It is indispensable that Ecuador has peace, but to have peace you need freedom and to have freedom you need justice. And the Indian population needs justice.'-President Gustavo Noboa, January 23, 2000 For five centuries, the Indians had very little...

The efforts of Indians in Latin America have gained momentum and garnered increasing attention in the last decade as they claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. This issue is of rising importance as ecological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791428405Author Terry J. PeavlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 examines the ways in which the ancient concept of "democracy" was re-imagined as relevant to the modern world in Latin America and the Caribbean between the later eighteenth and later...

An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion. A Great Fear: Luis de Onis and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808-1812 explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize...

Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic...

On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio's account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98).Book InformationISBN...

Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119183037Author Deborah PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher Wiley-BlackwellWeight(grams) 835g

Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822947202Author Francisco PanizzaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams)...

The Failure of Latin America is a collection of John Beverley's previously published essays and pairs them with new material that reflects on questions of post-colonialism and equality within the context of receding continental socialism. Beverley sees...

Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to be absorbed by the logic and order of neoliberalism. The autonomous movements of the twenty-first century...

This edited volume presents an original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean societies, from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine the importance of sound in the purveyance of power, gender roles,...

Napoleon's last campaign didn't end at Waterloo. After that fateful day on June 1815, hundreds if not thousands of veterans of Napoleon's army emigrated to America. Many went farther south and joined the rebels fighting for independence in the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884022541Author Stephen D. HoustonFormat HardbackPage Count 562Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this...

Defending "la patria," or "homeland," is the historical mission claimed by Latin American armed forces. For la Patria is a comprehensive narrative history of the military's political role in Latin America in national defense and...

Gabriela Polit Duenas analyzes the work of five narrative journalists from three countries. Marcela Turati, Daniela Rea, and Sandra Rodriguez from Mexico, Patricia Nieto from Colombia, and Maria Eugenia Luduena from Argentina produce compelling literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540389Author Ben FallawFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field:...