South America category: 2208 books
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Belo Horizonte : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Belo Horizonte : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Belo Horizonte : (Brazil) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
The End of the Rainy Season
Discovering My Family's Hidden Past in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Marian Lindberg grew up being told that Walter Lindberg, the man who raised her father, was a brave explorer who had been murdered in the Amazon. She took her father’s claims at face value, basking in her exotic roots, until she started to notice things. The unverified legend became a riddle she...
Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens
A Couchsurfer's Memoir of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Couchsurfer, hitchhiker, and rogue wanderer Jamie Maslin embarks on a couchsurfing adventure to the homeland of firebrand,” populist,” anti-American” president Hugo Chavez: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Alone in the crime capital of the world Maslin immediately finds himself in...
by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American writer
Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those...
Capoeira
Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and...
From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia
Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This title will be the first on the market to look at the entirety of Evo Morales' first term in office
The numerous field interviews with scores of people in Bolivia provide a bottom up look into the changes going on within the country
Written in an accessible language, but provides...
by John W. F. Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians. This study focuses on the formation...
The Colombia Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories,...
Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945
Repression during World Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime. Such governmental...
Rio de Janeiro
Extreme City
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Award-winning novelist, ex-government minister and sociologist, Luiz Eduardo Soares tells the story of Rio through...
Bleaker House
Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
When she was twenty-seven, Nell Stevens—a lifelong aspiring novelist—won an all-expenses-paid fellowship to go anywhere in the world to write. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell picked Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock...
by Jean de Léry
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Extrait : D’autant que quelques Cosmographes et autres historiens de nostre temps ont jà par cy devant escrit de la longueur, largeur, beauté et fertilité de ceste quatriesme partie du monde appelée Amerique ou terre du Bresil : ensemble des isles proches et terres continentes à icelle, du...
by Yuyú Guzmán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
La estancia colonial rioplatense integra evocaciones y crónicas de algunas estancias fundadas en la época colonial, ese subsuelo histórico tan poco difundido, no obstante ser el fundamento económico y social de nuestra identidad como país agropecuario por excelencia. La autora, genuina representante...
American History Book
This Mind-Opening Guide Reveals Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong About Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Among the most exclusive ebooks on American History this book gives you surefire facts that your textbook got wrong about Abraham Lincoln, American Inventions, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John F. Kennedy and much more that you'll love.