South America category: 2208 books
by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The publication of the text of the Sarmiento manuscript in the Library of Gastingen University, has enabled the Council to present the members of the Hakluyt Society with the most authentic narrative of events connected with the history of the Incas of Peru.
The Exhaustion of Difference
The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy,...
Bolivia.—Een in wording zijnde Staat aan den Stillen Oceaan (Geïllustreerd)
De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907-1908
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Het aes triplex (drievoudig koper) waarmede de dichter der oudheid het hart van den eersten zeevaarder ompantserd achtte, schijnt nog slechts een onvoldoende bescherming, vergeleken bij de wapenrusting, waarmede zich de eerste conquistadores wel mochten hebben omgord, toen zij het waagden, zich blindelings...
by Kenneth Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Mendoza, Argentina.
Mendoza is a city in western Argentina, in the desert Cuyo region. Mendoza is the center of the Argentinian wine industry, for which it is world renowned. It is also near the Aconcagua, the highest mountain...
by Gilad Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
18000+ Dutch - Spanish Spanish - Dutch Vocabulary" - is a list of more than 18000 words translated from Dutch to Spanish, as well as translated from Spanish to Dutch.
Easy to use- great for tourists and Dutch speakers interested in learning Spanish. As well as Spanish speakers interested in learning Dutch.
by Robert D. O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
The Comparative Vocabulary Study Guide, Spanish to English, highlights over 7,500 selected Spanish words that have either the same spelling and meaning as their English counterparts or contain easily recognizable English meanings.This guide jump-starts the student into a knowledge of Spanish or English,...
Twice Colombia
Adventure, Friendship, and Adoption in the Andes Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Patricia Woodard had always wanted to live and work in a foreign country, but the dream seemed to be elusive. Then in the summer of 1975 while she was teaching summer school in her hometown of Whiteville, North Carolina, she received a telegram offering her a teaching position in Bogot, Colombia....
Indigenous Development in the Andes
Culture, Power, and Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development...
Outlawed
Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to...
New Languages of the State
Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia’s indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in southeastern Bolivia with...
Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror
U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars
in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade
and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has
been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize
Colombian society. This book...
by Anton Swanepoel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The Mountains and Hidden Places of Machu Picchu
Do you want to know if climbing the mountains at Machu Picchu is worth it? Wondering how much time to plan for your visit and if you should sleep over at Machu Picchu? Wondering how exactly to get to the ruins, what train to take and where? Want...
Citizens and Sportsmen
Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Fútbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build identities around it. The World Cup tournament, played every four years, draws an audience of more than a billion people and provides a global platform...
by Margaret Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
When the author's husband, a civil engineer, told her they were going to Guyana. she replied: "Wonderful. I've always wanted to go to Africa", a self-critical comment she quotes to indicate how little is known about the country
She spent two years there in Georgetown on the narrow...