Latin category: 3540 books
A New America
How Music Reshaped the Culture and Future of a Nation and Redefined My Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**The long-anticipated companion book to the groundbreaking HBO documentary The Latin Explosion by renowned music producer Tommy Mottola.
Legendary music mogul, entertainment impresario, and New York Times bestselling author Tommy Mottola explores and expounds on his lifelong love of Latin...
The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations
The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy,...
Global Latin America
Into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside...
The United States and Latin America
A History with Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The United States and Latin America presents a complex and dynamic view of
the relationship between the United States and Latin America. Through a
combination of targeted, thematic chapters and a range of freshly-translated
documents, Jeffrey F. Taffet and Dustin Walcher illuminate the historical
continuities...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America.
Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America
Written by the top international...
Missionary Capitalist
Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The first work to draw on Nelson A. Rockefeller's newly available personal papers as well as research in Latin American archives, Missionary Capitalist details Rockefeller's efforts to promote economic development in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, from the late 1930s through the 1950s.
Rockefeller's...
The United States and Latin America
A History of American Diplomacy, 1776-2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Providing a concise, balanced and incisive analysis of US diplomatic relations with Latin America from 1776 to the end of the twentieth century, this timely work explores central themes such as the structure of international relations, and the pursuit of American national interest by the use of diplomacy,...
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America
Trauma, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...
by N. R. Oulton
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
Updated for the latest ISEB Classics syllabus, this book consolidates all the Latin grammar pupils need to know for the exam into one book, making it an indispensable revision resource for any...
Republics of the New World
The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A sweeping history of
Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth century
By the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism,...
In from the Cold
Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing...
by Gavin Betts
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Do you want to be able to read classical Latin with confidence? Find all the essential tools in this best-selling course from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Latin grammar is explained systematically and carefully, and graded readings from Martial, Vergil, Caesar, Ovid, Cicero...