South America category: 2208 books
Weakness and Deceit
America and El Salvador's Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
A land and culture poorly understood by analysts, politicians, and voters in the far-off United States. A regime permeated with corruption; a country in the steel grip of a few families that disdained any system which might give a voice to the millions who kept them in comfort: guarding their children,...
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
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by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study. Beginning with the roots of African...
Che's Travels
The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina...
by AlejandroTriana
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
We learn that writing marks the boundary between history and prehistory understanding that in America, before the fifteenth century, there was no "civilization" for missing the alphabetical language. But this is only one of the forms of language. Indeed, only a fraction of writing ´s history has...
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project...
by Peter Krahenbuhl
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A guide to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, which provides more geographic, biological and recreational diversity than any other country in Latin America. It contains misty cloud forests, the snow-capped Andes and the Amazon Basin. The natural attractions are unparalleled, and many people come just...
by Michael D. Coe
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.
by Evan Riley
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Panama City in Central America. Panama City is a multicultural place, with inhabitants from many different parts of the world. Spanish is spoken by most, and many speak some form of English. Panamanians are for the most part extremely friendly and helpful...
El Proyecto Macnamara
The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico s far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually...
Masters of War
Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes...
Demanding Justice and Security
Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have...
The Priest of Paraguay
Fernando Lugo and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Paraguay had the oldest one-party regime on earth. Under the 60-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado party, wealth and power became concentrated in the hands of a small few; until elections in 2008 broke the party's hold on the country and promised a newer, more egalitarian future,...
by Denis Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Napoleon called him “a Quixote who was not mad... a man who has a sacred fire in his soul.” President John Adams said his plan to liberate Spanish America was “as visionary as an excursion to the moon in a cart drawn by geese.”
For 30 years the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda plotted to free...