South America

From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru's troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner's reading of the Andean peasantry's engagement and disengagement with...

In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from the western coast of Africa, particularly from modern-day Benin. She describes a Catholic lay...

This translation of Severo Martinez Pelaez's La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martinez Pelaez was one of Guatemala's foremost...

When Nathan Wachtel, the historical anthropologist, returned to the village of Chipaya, the site of his extensive fieldwork in the Bolivian Andes, he learned a group of Uru Indians was being incarcerated and tortured for no apparent reason. Even more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789500392402Author Rodolfo MondolfoFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint LosadaPublisher Losada

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804712132Author Judith EwellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880684344Author AlegriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Curbstone Press,U.S.Publisher Curbstone Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 333gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

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Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research...

The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Riviere, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology of Amazonia. This international group of leading specialists contributes...

Colonial Lives offers a rich variety of archival documents in translation which bring to life the political and economic workings of Latin American colonies during 300 years of Spanish rule, and the day-to-day lives of the colonies' inhabitants. Intended...

The Inca empire was the largest state in the Americas at the time of the Spanish invasion in 1532. From its political center in the Cuzco Valley, it controlled much of the area included in the modern nations of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. But how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888242391Author Otis L Lee, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Koehler BooksPublisher Koehler BooksWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888242377Author Otis L Lee, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Koehler BooksPublisher Koehler BooksWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765120163Author David CarrascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881807740Author Peter V N HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781069149282Author Garrick PattendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint ISBN Canada - Library and Archives CanadaPublisher ISBN Canada - Library and...

Driving Terror tells the story of twenty-four Ford autoworkers in Argentina who were tortured and "disappeared" for their union activism in 1976, miraculously survived, and pursued a decades-long quest for truth and justice. In December 2018, more than...

Frontier Justice looks beyond the lawlessness and violence of frontiers to reveal instead the intricate tapestry of relationships that underpinned the development of civil society there. The book looks at northern Patagonia, which was military annexed to...

Sao Paulo is one of the few places in the underdeveloped world where an advanced industrial system has grown out of a tropical raw-material-exporting economy. By 1960 there were 830,000 industrial workers in the state, producing $3.3 billion worth of...

This anthology brings together more than sixty primary texts to offer an ambitious introduction to Spanish American thought and culture. Myths, poetry, memoirs, manifestos, and fiction are translated from Spanish to English, some for the first time.About...

Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as "Brazil's Black Rome". Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its African-descended population is one of the largest in Latin America. Yet despite representing a...

Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948506Author Douglas YarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America-and beyondThe rise of nation-states is a hallmark of the modern age, yet we are still untangling how the phenomenon unfolded across the globe. Here, Nicola...

Explore daily living inside the Inca empire, the largest empire in the western hemisphere before European colonization. The Incas' subjugation of all types of cultures in western South America led to a wide variety of experiences, from military leaders...

A study of the land, people, and politics of Uruguay.Book InformationISBN 9780313249815Author George PendleFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 454g

This book examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization, and real public health issues in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. Modernity in the Flesh shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal...

This fascinating study traces sixteenth-century German colonialism in Venezuela through the lens of racialized capitalism and the subsequent memorialization of the period through to the twentieth century. Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the...

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of...

Populism has been one of the most important phenomena in the political and social history of Latin America. In the Shadow of Peron challenges several commonly held assumptions about the nature of populism and the relations between the charismatic leader...

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In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how...

Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts...

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions. In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared content to remain "clinging to the coastline, like crabs." From their...

In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of PotosI, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy's blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440385Author Timo BarthollFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Spanish nativist factions zealously attacked them as...