South America

Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simon Bolivar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for his own political program-which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679166Author Justin PodurFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554897Author Chaz BowyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history's largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901990003Author Roger CasementFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Anaconda Editions LtdPublisher Anaconda Editions LtdWeight(grams) 754g

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theatres of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the...

Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and culturally from Spanish America. Its indigenous peoples share the country with descendants of Portuguese...

In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century,...

Cultural Agents Reloaded: The Legacy of Antanas Mockus systematically reflects on the practices and legacy of one exceptional cultural agent, Antanas Mockus, twice Mayor of Bogota, Colombia. His accomplishments bear witness to the potential of creative,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789876379731Author Laura CatenaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint CatapultaPublisher Catapulta

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210987Author Fabian EscalanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the...

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development...

On 17 May 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town...

Unlike most studies of the Incas, this book reconstructs the daily life not only of the ruling Inca elite but also of the rest of the society, including the conquered peoples. From food and drink to religious rituals, the major aspects of life at all...

The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Sports in South America follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay's hosting of the...

Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788490702369Author Piers Paul ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint B de BolsilloPublisher B de BolsilloWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 135mm *...

"Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the...

Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the...

The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of...

Even to experts, Colombia is one of the most confusing countries in the Americas. Its democratic tradition is among the richest and most long-standing in the hemisphere, with only eleven years of military rule during its 200 some years of independence...

In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act-claiming ownership of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998273082Author Ana Lessa-SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint New London LibrariumPublisher New London LibrariumWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm)...

Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection portrays in vivid detail the three indigenous rebellions that threatened Spanish control of its South American colonies more...

Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173404Author Gabriel Garcia MarquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Britain's relationship with this distant, tiny island...

In summer 2014 the eyes of the world will be on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and this will be repeated in 2016 for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Screens will likely be filled with cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and airwaves packed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113771Author Tony GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political situation unique in Latin America and of world-wide significance. Allende's Popular Unity coalition embraced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767913737Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813022Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)...

'A required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine situation before and after the Falklands War' Graham Greene 'Full of insights about the extraordinary story of Argentina under Galtieri and Alfonsin' Max Hastings __________________ ...

'Fascinating ... if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes believing they can act with the same violence and impunity abroad as they do at home' THE SPECTATOR'Heart-thumpingly powerful ... history told from the...

Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894-1930) is widely recognised across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his life and work are largely unknown to the English speaking world. In this gripping...

Port Stanley was the tiny capital of a British colony known to few beyond the world of stamp collecting. But then, suddenly, in April 1982, it was the place-name on everyone's lips. The outcome of a war, for which Britain had mobilised its most powerful...

Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character-a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine...

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker...

In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well behind its regional neighbours. At the same time, despite the...