Central America category: 775 books

Examen del encuentro entre Europa y América, y las transformaciones ocurridas mediante un proceso que comenzó con del descubrimiento y continúa hasta el presente siglo XXI. El autor muestra el tejido de las relaciones entre diversos modos de vida, creencias, organizaciones sociales, leyes y costumbres, políticas y economías, que originan así un nuevo modo de civilización Occidental.

A New York Times Bestseller Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable story of mutual loyalty and dedication that ranges from police corruption on the streets...

Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents primarily formed the Salvadoran...

The Mystery of Maya Math Code is solved and simplified!  Presented in a manner that is not long winded by explaining centuries of theories regarding ancient mathematics, Maya philosophy, and history. This book jumps straight into the Maya mathematical system in a simplified and easy to understand...

This book explores the properties of space travel in the vicinity of strong gravitational fields. It is a concept approved by the American government. The book presents this concept to a general public on a popular scientific level, which includes mathematical explanations understandable with the knowledge of standard school mathematics.

Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This book presents five case studies - four in Guatemala and one in Yucatan, Mexico - of eighteenth-century Maya acts of violent resistance to colonialism, and, in the process, reveals...

Este libro destaca cómo, junto con el temor de que se produjera una rebelión de esclavos semejante a la de Haití, se originaron otras fobias en Cuba que incidieron en la manera en que los letrados se refirieron a la esclavitud, a la raza africana y a la cultura criolla en general, y cómo tales temores sirvieron como concepto básico para construir la nación.

One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened the country's economic lifeline. New employment...

Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations.

Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-to-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600. Over two hundred entries written by more than sixty researchers explore subjects ranging from food, clothing, and shelter to the sophisticated...

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections between traditional ecological practices and the health and wellness of the Maya community living there....

El País Creado por Wall Street: La Historia Prohibida de Panamá y su Canal ofrece un relato apasionante sobre la creación de la República de Panamá y su canal en 1903 por un grupo de banqueros y abogados de Wall Street con la ayuda del Presidente norteamericano Teddy Roosevelt. El resultado de...

En Los mercados de la Plaza Mayor en la Ciudad de México encontra-mos un ejercicio de microhistoria. La obra indaga la génesis de los merca-dos capitalinos modernos. El comercio tradicional novohispano que combina-ba los «cajones» de espanoles y los «puestos» de indfgenas y castas, se trasformô...

Este pequeño libro ambicioso intenta articular una visión integral de Centroamérica. La historia material y espiritual, que habla de las cifras de la economía y sus ciclos, pero asimismo de los anhelos y los conceptos básicos, de los poemas y las construcciones imaginarias de los centroamericanos