South America category: 2208 books
Race in Another America
The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians...
Patagonia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the...
Aku-Aku
The secret of Easter Island
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island describes Thor Heyerdahl's research at Rano Raraku & Anakena on their many giant stone statues. The book & later film made a major contribution to awareness, outside anthropological & archeological communities, of both the island & the statues....
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics
Argentine Art in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina,...
The Marxism of Che Guevara
Philosophy, Economics, Revolutionary Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In this seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Löwy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. Now revised and updated, this edition includes a chapter on Guevara's...
The Men of Cajamarca
A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In November 1532, a group of 168 Spaniards seized the Inca emperor Atahuallpa in the town of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian highlands. Their act, quickly taken as a symbol of the conquest of a vast empire, brought them unprecedented rewards in gold and silver; it made them celebrities, gave them...
Imperial Subjects
Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race and ethnicity. As Imperial Subjects demonstrates, from the early years of Spanish and Portuguese rule, understandings of race and ethnicity were fluid. In this collection, historians offer nuanced interpretations...
The Insubordination of Signs
Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile’s neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), and she has continued...
The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties
Between Protest and Nation-Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that...
by Arnold Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
There are other guides to this exciting city, but this is the one I will take with me on my next visit…. Arnold Greenberg has visited Argentina more than 40 times, obvious from the wealth of information he gives you. - Travel Books Review. "Packed with in-depth information." - Philadelphia Inquirer....
by David Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the island nation of the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola. Our guide will help you to plan your vacation as well as while reading on the beach! Finding Internet access when...
Galapagos Islands & Quito Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador have an exotic lush environment and a plethora of wildlife species. Travelers from far and wide visit this tourist destination to see where Charles Darwin made his famous discoveries. The experience often proves to be one of the most unique trips a visitor will ever...
Cuba : La révolution transgressée
L'Âme des Peuples
Language: French
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Cuba change. L’île révolutionnaire des Caraïbes n’est plus la citadelle castriste d’autrefois. L’espoir d’une levée progressive de l’embargo américain, le tourisme apporteur de devises, le « reggaeton »...
by Jethro Soutar, Tim Girven, Tim Vickery
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A prison team in Argentina, a transvestite team in Colombia, a kidnapped team in Bolivia; Quechua women playing in bowler hats in the Andes, a Latino immigrant league in New York, Chilean hooligans on an away trip to Buenos Aires... A collection of creative non-fiction writing from Latin America takes football as its starting point, on a journey to the heart of Latin American society.