Latin category: 3540 books
Golazo!
The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of How Soccer Shaped Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.
“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that...
Gringo
A Coming of Age in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Gringo charts two journeys, both of which began a decade ago. The first is the sweeping transformation of Latin American politics that started with Hugo Chávez's inauguration as president of Venezuela in 1999. In that same year, an eighteen-year-old Chesa Boudin leaves his middle-class Chicago life...
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 Henry Cullen, Dr John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A companion to Bloomsbury's popular two-volume Greek to GCSE, this is the first course for Latin students that directly reflects the curriculum in a clear, concise and accessible way. Enhanced by colour artwork and text features, the books support the new OCR specification for Latin (first teaching...
How to Travel without Seeing
Dispatches from the New Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman concludes that...
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...
State Terrorism in Latin America
Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Set in the larger context of the evolution of international human rights, this cogent book examines the tragic development and ultimate resolution of Latin America's human rights crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Thomas Wright focuses especially on state terrorism in Chile under General Augusto Pinochet...
History of Modern Latin America
1800 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Latin America offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rich cultural and political history of this vibrant region from the onset of independence to the present day.
Includes coverage of the recent...
Latin American Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students...
The Latin American Drug Trade
Scope, Dimensions, Impact, and Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Transnational crime remains a particularly serious problem in Latin America, with most issues connected to the drug trade. There are several relevant roles that the U.S. Air Force can and should play in boosting Mexico's capacity to counter drug production and trafficking, as well as further honing and adjusting its wider counternarcotics effort in Latin America.
Based on a True Story
Latin American History at the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Combining history with discussions of dramatic cinema, Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies examines how film has portrayed Latin America from the late fifteenth century to the present. The book opens with an introduction on the visual presentation of the past in the movies,...
I Saw a City Invincible
Urban Portraits of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords. Latin American cities then became synonymous with Spanish power and all...
by Alan McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day.
Engages in debates about the economic, military,...
by George Reid Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.