South America category: 2208 books
by Janet Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This is book 3 in the series "A Trip Around the Sun". In this travel book you'll travel through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, including take a driving adventure through Patagonia, all from the comfort of your armchair.
by Chris Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
From its vibrant and lively cities to snow-capped volcanoes and white-sand beaches, Colombia offers enormous variety. Footprint’s 5th edition Colombia Handbook will guide you from salsa clubs & gold museums to the Amazon jungle and mountain peaks.
• Great coverage of the top activities...
by John Biggar, Cathy Biggar
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Destiné aux randonneurs et, de manière générale, à tous les amateurs de ces montagnes lointaines, la collection « Les Andes, guide de trekking » reprend les plus beaux itinéraires de trekking des Andes et de Patagonie, ainsi que les voies d'ascension des principaux «sommets de trekking» faciles...
by John Biggar
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Le premier topo d’alpinisme couvrant l’ensemble de la cordillère des Andes, du Venezuela à la Patagonie et la Terre de Feu Quel amateur de montagne n’a rêvé de découvrir un jour l’Amérique du Sud par ses plus belles montagnes?Destiné aux alpinistes et aux randonneurs, la collection «...
by Andrew Dier
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**Moon Travel Guides: Make Your Escape
Colonial architecture and ancient ruins, romantic plazas and golden beaches: Colombia's Caribbean coastline offers relaxation and adventure in equal measure. Dive right in with Moon Cartagena & Colombia's Caribbean Coast.**
Easy-to-use itineraries,...
Mapping the Country of Regions
The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young...
by GradBrazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
You gain:Insights into Brazilian courses/research opportunities and their deadlinesBrazil funding levelsThe Brazilian universities that provide- Free tuition- Free meals- Free apartment- Free bus and metro- Free Portuguese classes- Free gym- Free medical careCV/Resume/cover letter templatesSelecting...
Challenging Social Inequality
The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure. They focus on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)—Latin America's...
by Warren Dean
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
São Paulo is one of the few places in the underdeveloped world where an advanced industrial system has grown out of a tropical raw-material-exporting economy. By 1960 there were 830,000 industrial workers in the state, producing $3.3 billion worth of goods. It had become Latin America’s largest industrial...
The Brazil Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised...
Mapping Diaspora
African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates...
Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault
Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Though the law and courts of nineteenth-century Peru were institutions created by and for the ruling elite, women of all classes used the system to negotiate the complexities of property rights, childrearing, and marriage, and often to defend their very definitions of honor. Drawing on the trial transcripts...
Colombia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Colombia has a spectacular and variant landscape, embracing tropical beaches, highland plateaus, the rugged, snow-capped peaks of the Andes, arid deserts, and dense Amazonian jungle. Colombian society is equally diverse. Stylish, cosmopolitan cities coexist with poverty in the beautiful countryside....
From Development to Dictatorship
Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington’s modernization programs in early 1960s Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important...