South America category: 2208 books
Cape Horn
Travel Photography
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
A voyage to Cape Horn guarantees an adventure at every turn. Sailing around Cape Horn is widely regarded as one of the major challenges in yachting. The waters around Cape Horn are very dangerous because of strong winds, rain, fast currents and large waves. Stroll around the island, admire the breathtaking landscapes through Alexander Tsygankov’s photographs right now.
Town in the Empire
Government, Politics, and Society in Seventeenth Century Popayán
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
During the seventeenth century, many of the fundamental characteristics of Spanish America were established. Peter Marzahl adds significantly to our understanding of this period with this study of Popayán, a town in what was then part of New Granada and is now Colombia. New Granada was something of...
Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808–1871
Social Control and Political Stability in the New State
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In nineteenth-century Brazil the power of the courts rivaled that of the central government, bringing to it during its first half century of independence a stability unique in Latin America. Thomas Flory analyzes the Brazilian lower-court system, where the private interests of society and the public...
Most Scandalous Woman
Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patriarchal society. Magda Portal, a poet and journalist, would become one of Latin America’s most successful and controversial politicians. In this richly...
by John D. Irany
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Antes de 1492 apresenta um argumento convincente no sentido de que décadas antes de Colombo zarpar da Espanha, navegadores portugueses descobriram o Brasil, enquanto buscavam uma rota marítima para a Índia. A prova dessa teoria é um mapa, agora em exposição permanente na Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos.
by Jade Bremner, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2019
"Imponenti vette andine, coste caraibiche incontaminate, l'impenetrabile giungla dell'Amazzonia, gli affascinanti siti archeologici e le cittadine coloniali con viuzze acciottolate. La Colombia possiede tutto il fascino del Sud America e molto altro". In questa guida: attività all'aperto; arte e cultura; animali e parchi; viaggiare in sicurezza.
by Gomes Pércheiro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 21, 2013
INDICE
CAPITULO I
A emigração de trabalhadores para o Brazil e os salarios de cá e de lá. Os artistas e os salarios. O lado economico. O clima aos olhos do homem pratico e do homem de sciencia. O clima e a febre amarella. A mortalidade de Portugal e Brazil comparada. A ambição causante principal...
by Pietro Panico
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Andarsene, oltre che un viaggio per il sud America.
Mettendomi nei panni di un lettore sul punto di approcciarsi a questo libro, sorge spontanea la domanda:
Quale l'utilità di questi scritti?
Il libro è di per sé un continuo susseguirsi di avvenimenti, si suppone personali, o quanto meno narrati...
AMAZONÍA
Tra natura e avventura, un’esperienza di vita con gli indios Achuar dell’Ecuador
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 5, 2016
L’Amazzonia è sempre stata considerata una terra immaginaria e fantastica, estesa e lussureggiante, incontaminata e simbolo di purezza e natura. Per chi ha avuto la fortuna di conoscerla e visitarla a fondo è proprio così! In realtà è anche molto di più, in particolare per un biologo-naturalista...
by Gavin Souter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1893 almost 500 Australians set out by ship to carve a communist utopia from the heart of Paraguay. Led by socialist journalist and activist, William Lane, their aim was to realise the cherished Australian principles of equality and mateship.Expulsions and secessions began early; in mid-1894 Lane...
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...
A Damn Close-Run Thing
A Brief History of the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs,...
Hotel Trópico
Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico...
Venezuela Speaks!
Voices from the Grassroots
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
A collection of interviews with activists and other contributors, this compelling oral history details Venezuela’s bloodless uprising and reorganization. For the last decade, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution” has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality, and unemployment have...