Latin category: 3540 books
Empire's Workshop
Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
An eye-opening examination of Latin America**'s role as proving ground for** U.S. imperial strategies and tactics
In recent years, one book after another has sought to take the measure of the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy. In their search for precedents, they invoke the Roman...
by Todd Hartch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Winner of 2014 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology from the American Society of Missiology Winner of the 2015 Christianity Today Award for Missions/Global Affairs Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission Studies Predominantly Catholic...
Faces of Latin America
Fourth Edition (Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment and cultures of Latin America. Duncan Green and Sue Branford take...
X-Treme Latin
All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand.
Beard's...
by Dr John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Essential GCSE Latin is a practical and accessible guide for students. This third edition is updated for the OCR GCSE (9-1) specification (first assessment 2018). It covers all the linguistic requirements for GCSE Latin, providing straightforward and helpful explanations of every grammatical construction....
by R. C. Bass
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Exam Board: ISEB
Level: 13+
Subject: Latin
First Teaching: September 2014
First Exam: Autumn 2015
This set of exam-style questions provides pupils with a wealth of practice for 13+ ISEB Latin Common Entrance exams at Level 1. The huge range of questions covers translation, grammar and vocabulary,...
Divergent Modernities
Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2001
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available...
No Apocalypse, No Integration
Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)
What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in...
by J. H. Allen, James B Greenough
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A venerable resource for more than a century, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar is still regarded by students and teachers as the finest Latin reference grammar available. Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, it is unrivaled in depth and clarity, placing a wealth of advice on usage, vocabulary,...
Crime and Punishment in Latin America
Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law. Building on a variety of methodological...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States....
by Eugenia Rodríguez, Maria Eugenia Chaves
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2000
This collection examines the mutually influential interactions of gender and the state in Latin America from the late colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Locating watershed moments in the processes of gender construction by the organized power of the ruling classes and in the processes...
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900
Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newspapers, partisan pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
It is well known that large numbers of Europeans migrated overseas during the century preceding the Great Depression of 1930, and that a great many of them went to the United States. What is not well known, particularly in the United States, is that more than 20 percent of these migrants emigrated...