Latin America category: 3090 books
Making Out In Spanish
(Spanish Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Making Out in Spanish is a fun, accessible and thorough Spanish phrase book and guide to the Spanish language as it's really spoken.
Te adoro! Cuando puedo volver a verte?—(I adore you! When can I see you next time?) Answer this correctly in Spanish, and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly,...
Latin American Wars 1900–1941
"Banana Wars," Border Wars & Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
From the Mexican Revolution to the Zarumilla War, in the first 40 years of the 20th century the nations of Central and South America were frequently disturbed by border clashes, civil wars and revolution. Many of these conflicts became known as 'Banana Wars'. Some involved only lightly armed guerrillas,...
Solidarity Transformed
Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin...
FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations....
Rank and Privilege
The Military and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Dr. Linda A. RodrÌguez has assembled a new collection of essays that finally provides the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. The articles included here examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century...
The Invaded
How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua,...
Armies without Nations
Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua....
The Scooter Diaries
An Adventure Romance Through Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
In November of 1959, Ron Bowman quit his job as a newspaper reporter, sold his car and bought a 150cc Lambretta scooter. He intended to ride it from his hometown of Thorold, Ontario, Canada all the way to Peru. As far as he knew, no one had ever made such a journey, but he was going to try.
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by Peter Krahenbuhl
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A guide to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, which provides more geographic, biological and recreational diversity than any other country in Latin America. It contains misty cloud forests, the snow-capped Andes and the Amazon Basin. The natural attractions are unparalleled, and many people come just...
Latin American Cinema
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book charts a comparative history of Latin America’s national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodríguez weaves close...
by Thomas E. Skidmore
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1990
The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil,...
by Jesus Martin Barbero, Diana Taylor, Néstor Garcia Canclini
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting...
The Indian in Latin American History
Resistance, Resilience, and Acculturation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. They have resisted cultural hegemony with rebellions and have initiated petitions to demand remedies to injustices, while consciously...