Latin America category: 3090 books
Life and Death in the Andes
On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains.
The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Milagros
A Book of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Let the ancient power of milagros work miracles for you! Based on traditional Latin American talismans, these tiny silver charms are reminders that a miracle can fit in the palm of your hand. Throughout Latin America and the American Southwest, milagros are offered at shrines and sacred sites by believers...
by Caitlin Fitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.
In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism...
From the Ashes of History
Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The formation, organization, and accessibility of archives and libraries are critical for the production of historical narratives. They contain the materials with which historians and others reconstruct past events. Archives and libraries, however, not only help produce history, but also have a history...
by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife...
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love
The Arpillera Movement in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love tells the story of ordinary women living in terror and extreme poverty under General Pinochet's oppressive rule in Chile (1973–1989). These women defied the military dictatorship by embroidering their sorrow on scraps of cloth, using needles and thread as one...
by Jean Franco
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and...
The Memory of Fire Trilogy
Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Now in one collection, the century-spanning trilogy filled with “the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America” (The Washington Post).
Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history...
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
New Histories of Latin America's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection...
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy
The Alliance for Progress in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations,...
by Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition, New Spain's economy and culture were also changing radically....
Riots in the Cities
Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual political power wielded by the underprivileged city dwellers before the twentieth century has...
Mexico - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Culture Smart! Mexico takes you to the heart of Mexican society. It describes how people socialize and meet members of the opposite sex, the dynamics of daily life, the central importance of family, and the annual cycle of Catholic feasts and fiestas. For business travelers there are key sections...