South America category: 2208 books
Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to a successful military coup d'etat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed forces to follow the orders of elected leaders? And how do emerging democracies gain that control over their military establishments?...
The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
by Alejandro Eduardo Fiadone
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This stunning collection of 284 rare designs is a bonanza for artists and craftspeople seeking distinctive patterns with a South American Indian flavor. The carefully adapted, authentic motifs include animal and totemic designs, geometric and rectilinear figures, abstracts, grids, and many other styles in a wide range of shapes and sizes.
Narrative Threads
Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created astonishing works of architecture and artistry and a compelling mythology—all without the aid of a graphic...
Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Doña Petrona, Women, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she...
An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians
Excursion a los indios ranqueles
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one of very few works in American letters that presents...
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets...
Paraguay and the Triple Alliance
The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In the War of the Triple Alliance—the most terrible conflict in South American history—Paraguay was almost annihilated by the armed forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The chaotic postwar decade began with the Allied occupation of Asunción, which lasted seven years, and was marked by Brazilian-Argentine...
Growth without Development
Peru in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
This book examines how some growing countries are experiencing economic development, while others are falling behind. It addresses the fundamental issues of development strategies by examining country-specific policies that have resulted in success or failure. The author focuses on Peru and makes...
by Manuel Querino
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 23, 2014
O autor, relata as receitas marcantes na culinária da Bahia, em seu estudo aponta a grande relação existente entre a presença africana e a criação de uma culinária baiana, amada e reconhecida no mundo inteiro. Sabores que vão além...
Bolivia en el siglo XXI
Trayectorias históricas y proyecciones políticas, económicas y socioculturales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2019
En un intento por comprender la compleja realidad sociopolítica y económica que ha experimentado Bolivia en el último siglo de su historia, este volumen de estudios interdisciplinarios analiza, desde diferentes perspectivas científicas y culturales, las diversas trayectorias de personas y grupos...
Homenaje a Jaime Concha
Releyendo a contraluz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Este libro es el primero en rendirle un homenaje al gran critico chileno, Jaime Concha. Reune reflexiones personales de unos amigos academicos; ensayos sobre su docencia en Concepcion y su obra en general; estudios inspirados en los libros de Concha sobre Huidobro, Mistral y Neruda; capitulos dedicados...
Hunting Che
How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolution ary
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The hunt for Ernesto “Che” Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captured—a mission later duplicated in...