South America category: 2208 books
Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy
A Study of Regimes of Exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy aims to make an important contribution to the study of emergency politics by offering an up-to-date study of how it works in practice. Specifically, it studies the uses given to the “regime of exception” mechanism in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Fortaleza : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Fortaleza : (Brazil) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Fortaleza : (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 Margret Wittmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The remarkable first-hand account of Margret Wittmer, who settled the island of Floreana in the Galapagos-600 miles from the mainland of Ecuador. It took Wittmer and her family weeks to travel to the island in 1932; they battled with the ties for three full days before they could land.
Wittmer...
The Lima Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the “City of Kings.”
Indigenous Migration and Social Change
The Foresteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1990
Many observers in colonial Spanish America—whether clerical, governmental, or foreign—noted the large numbers of forasteros, or Indians who were not seemingly attached to any locality. These migrants, or “wanderers,” offended the bureaucratic sensibilities of the Spanish administration, as...
Working Women, Working Men
Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sào Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sào Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain...
by Rodolfo Segovia
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
OVER A CENTURY OF PEACE HAS FREED Cartagena from its ever-present fear of military attack. Today, its ramparts are picturesque reminders of bygone days; and the presence of the Colombian naval fleet no more than an adornment to a pleasant setting. In Colonial times Cartageneros had a different perception:...
by Gilad Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
"61000+ Arabic - Spanish Spanish - Arabic Vocabulary" is a list of more than 61000 words translated from Arabic to Spanish, as well as translated from Spanish to Arabic. Easy to use- great for tourists and Arabic speakers interested in learning Spanish. As well as Spanish speakers interested in learning Arabic.
The Kalamata Diary
Greece, War, and Emigration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold carefully analyzes and...
Democracy, Militarism, and Nationalism in Argentina, 1930–1966
An Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Until 1930, Argentina was one of the great hopes for stable democracy in Latin America. Argentines themselves believed in the destiny of their nation to become the leading Latin American country in wealth, power, and culture. But the revolution of 1930 unleashed the scourges of modern militarism and...
Beyond the Vanguard
Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende's Chile
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende’s attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the...
by Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award in Mexico for Best Research Work in Anthropology
Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia,...
Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace
Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995–1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three years and the interplay of multiple actors and factors to achieve a definitive peace agreement, thus ending what had been the region's oldest unresolved border...
Colombia and World War I
The Experience of a Neutral Latin American Nation during the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914–1921
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
In the horrific conflict of 1914–1918 known first as “The Great War” and later as World War I, Latin American nations were peripheral players. Only after the U.S. entered the fighting in 1917 did eight of the twenty republics declare war. Five others broke diplomatic relations with Germany,...