South America

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...

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...

Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are examined from many perspectives in The Ecuador Reader...

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...

Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s. In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by...

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...

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The Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars covers the period 1954-1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. The term "dirty war" (guerra sucia), though originally associated with the military...

Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common challenges facing both countries in their early decades...

Lope de Aguirre, Anti-imperialism, and the Latin American Left: The Wrath of Liberation examines why anti-imperialist projects have the tendency to become tyrannies, with a focus on Latin America. Alfredo Ignacio Poggi discusses the figure of Lope de...

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter...

Venezuela is the seventh largest oil producer and holder of the largest proven reserves in the world. It's also a country full of problems, as evidenced by having the biggest inflation rates and, by some estimates the highest crime rates worldwide...

In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class-the oligarchy-consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who...

With 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and...

Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common challenges facing both countries in their early decades...

Painful Birth is the astounding story of how Chile narrowly escaped becoming a Leninist/Stalinist slave state in the early 1970s and over a relatively short historic period was transformed into the near paragon of freedom and prosperity that it is today...

The Brief History series introduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the world's countries. Each engaging volume covers a specific country and offers a concise history of the...

This volume examines the experiences of Sao Paulo's working class during Brazil's Old Republic (1891-1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I. In this unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626176768Author Marty GitlinFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Blastoff! DiscoveryPublisher Bellwether Media

Reverend Antun Rabbat, a respected Jesuit scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discovered these extraordinary writings in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. Rabbat immediately transcribed into Arabic those portions relating to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816529292Author Mark SantiagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years from 1982 into mid-2013. Although the text concentrates on combat operations,...

This book examines the recruitment of the legislative-gubernatorial candidates by twelve political parties forming the five major party groupings in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, from 1962 until 1965.Originally published in 1968.A UNC Press...

Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-1985) launched seemingly apolitical official campaigns that were aesthetically appealing and ostensibly aimed to ""enlighten"" and ""civilize."" Some were produced as civilian-military collaborations and others were...

The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Tiricaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking...

The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know about how colonial actors understood and theorized this complex historical transformation comes from...

This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims. The obstacles to peace were both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518499Author Cheddi JagganFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 220g

Cordoba is Argentina's second-largest city, a university town that became the center of its automobile industry. In the decade following the overthrow of Juan Peron's government in 1955, the city experienced rapid industrial growth. The arrival of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873487665Author Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826502292Author Shawn McDanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826502308Author Shawn McDanielFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...