South America category: 2208 books
Venezuela Before Chávez
Anatomy of an Economic Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2004
The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, these essays provide an assessment of Latin American cultural studies, an account of the field’s...
Embers of the Past
Essays in Times of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjinés C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations. He contends that indigenous movements...
A Cheney Sampler
Excerpts from Books by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from: -- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America -- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil -- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something -- Passion in an Improper Place -- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost nation of fugitive slaves
-- Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Theodore Roosevelt, ‘Through the Brazilian Wilderness.’
A harrowing chronicle of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition through Brazil and Paraguay to map the 950-mile River of Doubt.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,...
Good Days!
The Bons Dias Chronicles of Machado de Assis (1888-1889)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In 1888 and 1889, Brazil's most renowned writer, Machado de Assis, wrote a series of chronicles, or essays, for the Gazeta de Notícias, published in Rio de Janeiro. This was a very exciting time to be reporting in Brazil. In 1889, slavery was abolished, and in 1889, the country ended its monarchy...
The Road to OPEC
United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
On September 10, 1960, Venezuela spearheaded the formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (other original members included Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait). However, in a world abundantly supplied with oil, the United States could and did ignore Venezuelan suggestions that...
by A. L. Kroeber
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
A Mission Record Of The California Indians by A. L. Kroeber
This is an 'interrogatorio,' a survey taken in 1811 by the Spanish government of Mexico regarding the status of the Native Californians at each mission in Alta California, translated and heavily annotated by A.L. Kroeber. Along with...
by William H. Katra
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
This is a history book that studies the thought and actions of José Gervasio Artigas throughout the decade of his prominence (1810 –1820) as leader of the Federal League, which united his native territory of Uruguay to four neighboring provinces in today’s Argentina.
This was the period when...
British-Owned Railways in Argentina
Their Effect on the Growth of Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
During the nineteenth century, British-owned railways grew under the protection of an Argentine ruling elite that considered railways both instruments and symbols of progress. Under this program of support for foreign enterprise, Argentina had by 1914 built the largest railway network in Latin America....
by Alexandra deVries
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Rio de Janeiro is currently the hottest of all the world's pleasure capitals. In the run-up to 2016's summer Olympics, millions of people will seize the chance to enjoy the great Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, the countless nightclubs where patrons join in a frenzy of Brazilian dances and samba, the...
Mississippi Justice: Guilty Until Proven Innocent!
Joe Ruff's Exceptional Life, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Joe Ruff has survived what could have been a fatal wound and plane crash in the ocean, and now what future plans will he make for himself? He is in a loveless marriage and needs to find his way in this world. We are about to learn about the next phase of his exceptional life.
The Seduction of Brazil
The Americanization of Brazil during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the earlobe to indicate...
Argentina's Missing Bones
Revisiting the History of the Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba,...