South America category: 2208 books
Addicted to Failure
U.S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
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This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and...
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations,...
by James F. Rusling
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Across America : The Great West and the Pacific Coast
Across America, from New York to San Francisco, may be roughly estimated as three thousand miles. The first third of this occupied us only about three days and three nights, though the whole trip...
by Dennis Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class—the oligarchy—consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who were growing rich in a rapidly expanding global...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars.
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account...
L'uomo dalla voce tonante
Storie dell'America del Sud
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Uno scrittore cileno dell’Ottocento ha detto una volta che gli europei in visita nell’America del Sud parlano sempre di vulcani, selve amazzoniche, tempeste di Capo Horn, poiché non possono fare a meno di celebrarne la natura selvaggia. Anche Malatesta parla della natura del continente australe,...
The Road to El Dorado
Percy Fawcett and the Lost World of Z
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In 1925, Percy Fawcett left England for Brazil--he would never return.
For his entire life, Fawcett had been fascinated with exploration. The child of an explorer, Fawcett had heard countless wild stories of adventure and it did not surprise anyone that he became an explorer himself.
In...
Short Walks from Bogotá
Journeys in the new Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now travel to Colombia and South America is on the rise, and it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie?
Writer and journalist Tom Feiling, author of the acclaimed study of cocaine The Candy Machine, has journeyed...
Travels in a Thin Country
A Journey Through Chile
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral...
by Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions,...
The New Colombia
Peace and prosperity in sight: the country comes of age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Colombia is usually associated with drug cartels, guerrilla wars and violence. But the biggest Spanish-speaking country after Mexico is changing. The economy is already larger, by some measures, than South Africa’s; if peace talks are successful, it will do better still. This free ebook is an indispensable...
Falklands Gunner
A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces’ successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.
Second...
Party Brazil Phrasebook 2014
Slang, Music, Fun and Futebol
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Portuguese is the sixth most widely spoken language in the world
3.18 million fans attended the last World Cup in South Africa
The World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world: In 2006, 715 million people watched the final match between France and Italy
The Thief at the End of the World
Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history
In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration...