South America category: 2208 books
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Porto Alegre : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Porto Alegre : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Porto Alegre : (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.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Joao Pessoa : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Joao Pessoa : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Joao Pessoa : (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.
by Owen Chase
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Of the 21 men who entered the 3 flimsy whale-boats,...
Children of the Father King
Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives within the framework of law and intellectual history from 1650 to 1820, Premo brings to light...
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História do regime militar brasileiro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Exatos cinquenta anos atrás, o Brasil mergulhou em uma ditadura que iria perdurar por mais de duas décadas. É chegado o momento de fazer um balanço histórico do regime militar. Marcos Napolitano, conhecido historiador da USP, discute neste livro sólido e bem escrito as principais questões desses...
by Kenny Afonin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The author describes his less than pleasant experience living in the Latin American country of Brazil. This book will reveal personal experiences and the gritty reality of what real corruption and poverty looks like. It's what a decent man wants the world to know. It's what the Brazilian government doesn't want to tell you.
Last Plane to Cochabamba
An Extraordinary Journey to the Five Corners of Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The author is researching a history of Bolivia and is determined to visit every corner of that vast country - famous for its extremes. Along the way he visits arid deserts and steaming jungles, tours silver, copper, tin and led mines high in the Andes. He travels the most dangerous roads in the Americas....
Ephemeral Histories
Public Art, Politics, and the Struggle for the Streets in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Politics under Salvador Allende was a battle fought in the streets. Everyday attempts to “ganar la calle” allowed a wide range of urban residents to voice potent political opinions. *Santiaguinos *marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with...
Aurality
Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different...
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Samba the night away in Lapa, people-watch and sip sunset cocktails on Ipanema Beach...
The Nanny and the Iceberg
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a Don Juan father and a country preparing for the...
Remembering Pinochet's Chile
On the Eve of London 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling...
Muddied Waters
Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants...
by José de Acosta, Walter D. Mignolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations...