South America category: 2208 books
Key Facts on Venezuela
Essential Information on Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Learn everything you need to about the Republic of Venezuela! The Key Facts on Venezuela provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the South American country, including:
-Background of Venezuela
-Geography of Venezuela
-People and...
by Peter V. N. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The only comprehensive history of Andean South America from initial settlement to the present, this useful book focuses on Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the four countries where the Andes have played a major role in shaping history.Although Henderson emphasizes the period since the...
The Internationalization of Palace Wars
Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II.
Based...
by C Edward Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
The Milky Way gravity exerts a gravitational force so strong that our Solar System and others are forced to travel with it. Ancients who built the pyramids understood this and its cycle that occurred every 15 to 30,000 years. During this cycle the polarity of all the planets in our solar system had...
The Missionaries
God Against the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The renowned travel writer delivers “a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls” (Library Journal).
Acclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.
From the picturesque beaches of Rio de Janeiro to the majestic Iguaçu Falls to the wonders of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil offers something for every type of traveler--and Fodor's...
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps...
by George Chaworth Musters
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
At Home with the Patagonians : A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro
In submitting the following pages to the public, I am conscious that some readers who desire exact and scientific descriptions of the geography and geology of Patagonia...
Cain's Courage
Lance Weber, #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
CAIN’S COURAGE
Andrew McCoy
Stop the terrorists — dead!
When three busloads of kibbutz children are blown up, one evil man is behind the outrage: diehard Nazi fanatic Max Spitz, alive and well, fabulously rich, and living in South America. Part-time kibbutznik Mark Bern resolves...
Linked Labor Histories
New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia. Taken...
Simón Bolívar
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
The “impeccably researched, uncommonly honest, and . . . very well written” biography of the nineteenth century Venezuelan military and political leader (Alvaro Vargas Llosa, New Republic).
Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary who freed six South American countries from Spanish Imperial...
8 Men and a Duck
An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
8 Men and a Duck charts the hilarious and unnerving Pacific voyage as it rolls between waves of high drama and high farce: from the five-day launch off a Chilean beach, to the bungled phone call that triggered a naval rescue alert, to the sad fate of Pedro the duck, to the constant race against the...
Neoliberalism from Below
Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other...
What You Need to Know Before You Travel to Peru
Peru Traveler's Guide to Make the Most Out of Your Trip
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
It is a big leap to make travel plans to Peru. Despite what it appears to be in size on the entire South American map, Peru is a big country! Traveling from one destination to the next requires planning, sometimes at least a couple months in advance. When you arrive, making your way from one place...