South America category: 2208 books
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship
Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes...
by Franz Tamayo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Franz Tamayo (La Paz, 1879-1956). Bolivia.Poeta y político. Durante su juventud pasó temporadas en Francia y el Reino Unido. Se graduó como abogado en la Universidad de San Andrés y se inclinó por el liberalismo durante sus primeros años en lapolítica. Siendo fundador líder del Partido Radical...
A Lexicon of Terror
Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1999
"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary...
Exorcising Terror
The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as...
Battling for Hearts and Minds
Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a...
Futebol Nation
The Story of Brazil through Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer...
Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil"
Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote," Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getlio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Catholic and lawyers' associations,...
Venezuela
Revolution as Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the regime is antidemocratic and dictatorial. Instead, the book argues that the Chavez government is one of a long line of Latin American populist organizations...
by Euclides da Cunha
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Os Sertões é um livro escrito por Euclides da Cunha e publicado em 1902.
Trata da Guerra de Canudos (1896-1897), no interior da Bahia. Euclides da Cunha tinha presenciado uma parte desta guerra como correspondente do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo, e ao retornar escreveu um dos maiores livros...
Un aspecto de la violencia
Historiografía y visión sociopolítica de la violencia en Colombia (1953-1963)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
A comienzos de la década de los años sesenta del siglo XX, la vida socio-política de Colombia estaba agitada, porque coincidían en el panorama el reciente acuerdo del Frente Nacional celebrado entre los dos partidos tradicionales para alternarse el poder durante 16 años continuos entre 1958 y...
by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
1 Obra de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Conquistador español (1507-1559)
Este libro electrónico presenta una 1 Obra de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente a la obra seleccionada....
by Kim Ekemar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2016
En 1982 dos viajeros ingenuos llegaron a Paraguay para, como turistas, conocer al país. Por una pregunta trivial, la pareja fue detenida por la policía política bajo la sospecha oficial de ser terroristas. Fueron obligados de quedarse frente a una cámara de tortura, incomunicados, hasta lograr...
by Marc Torra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Con la entrada en la era de la materialidad, hace ahora 5 mil años, el conocimiento sobre la anatomía del alma pasó a formar parte de las distintas tradiciones esotéricas. Ello hizo que fuera reservado a unos pocos iniciados.
En los Himalayas fue un saber transmitido oralmente, de maestro...
by Pedro Cieza de León
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Pedro Cieza de León (Llerena, 1520-Sevilla, 1554). España.Fue conquistador y cronista e historiador del Perú. Escribió una Crónica del Perú en tres partes, de las que solo la primera se publicó en vida de su autor, quedando inéditas las otras dos hasta los siglos XIX y XX.En Cartagena de Indias...