South America category: 2208 books
by Peter F. Klarén
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
With 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and human resources, but has been largely confined to...
The Plebeian Republic
The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Combining social and political history, The Plebeian Republic challenges well-established interpretations of state making, rural society, and caudillo politics during the early years of Peru’s republic. Cecilia Méndez presents the first in-depth reconstruction and analysis of the Huanta rebellion...
Argentina
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well below its regional neighbours such as Chile. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic...
The Loss of El Dorado
A Colonial History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into...
The Amazon
Land without History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South American nation states. Mixing scientific jargon and poetic language, the essays in Land Without History...
Lima Barreto
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...
Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
Contracultura
Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that...
No Limits to Their Sway
Cartagena's Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. With new leadership...
Spectacular Wealth
The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted...
The Falklands 1982
Ground operations in the South Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
On 3 April 1982 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced that Argentine armed forces had landed on British sovereign territory; had captured the men of Royal Marine detachment NP8901; had run up the Argentine flag; and had declared the islands and their population to be Argentine. An immediate...
Courage Tastes of Blood
The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across...
This Land Is Ours Now
Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization. She argues that social movements are not the politically coherent, bounded entities often portrayed by scholars, the press, and movement leaders. Instead, they are constantly changing mediations...
Peasants on Plantations
Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the...