South America category: 2208 books
by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
For centuries the strange, exotic civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas flowered in total separation from the rest of mankind. Then explorers stumbled on great pyramids and temples hidden in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan, and fortress cities high up in the Andes, to find ‘things that...
LULA: UM CONDENADO POLÍTICO (?)
Evidências, impressões, convicções, condenações & O PROBLEMA DA VERDADE (TESE DE DOUTORADO)
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 5, 2018
(A5, 140 P.)
Diz-se, há tempos, que existe crime organizado no Brasil. Concorda-se, é óbvio, porém, em outro sentido: pensa-se sim que existe crime organizado em nosso país, mas que ele não está, em seu pleno potencial lesivo à sociedade e aos cidadãos de bem, como muitos acreditam,...
by Carol Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Funny and fanciful, this is a book about a Coca Box, and an unlikely travel foursome exploring the art and archaeology of Peru. Except that one member of the team likes to collect Precolumbian pottery. If trafficking in archaeological materials is unlawful, it seems to matter little, and in the end...
by Ricardo Palma
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 6, 2012
2 Obras de Ricardo Palma Escritor y periodista peruano (1833-1919)
Este libro electrónico presenta una colección de 2 Obras de Ricardo Palma en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente a la obra seleccionada.
Índice interactivo:
- 1860 - Tradiciones peruanas - 1904 - Tradiciones en Salsa Verde
Las luchas por la memoria en América Latina
Historia reciente y violencia política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Este libro ofrece un panorama que contribuye a comprender la naturaleza de los procesos de violencia política que atravesó América Latina en la segunda mitad del siglo xx y por primera vez permite situar en un marco histórico las luchas por la memoria de estos pasados a escala continental. Además,...
Rosa limensis
Mística, política e inconografía en torno a la patrona de América
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Rosa limensis es un ensayo interdisciplinario de historia cultural que resalta los orígenes religiosos del nacionalismo peruano. Basaso en los expedientes inéditos del proceso ordinario (1617-1618) y apostólico (1630-1632) de beatificación y canonizacíon, el libro analiza el universo místico...
by Alonso Carrió de la Vandera, José Luis Busaniche
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes is an extensive itinerary that goes from Montevideo to Lima to Buenos Aires, with stops inCórdoba, Salta, Potosí, Chuquisaca, and Cuzco. The work offers a very specific and accurate picture of American life during colonial times. The author narrates precisely the...
Brésil: Salvador et sa région
Une invitation au voyage et à la dégustation dans une région brésilienne colorée, vibrante et accueillante!
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Découvrez Salvador, la clé des trésors de Bahia!
L'Amérique du Sud. Le Brésil. Wow!
Bahia... Salvador de Bahia. Son seul nom fait rêver, n'est-ce pas?
Rien qu'à l'entendre, on sent le vent de l'exotisme nous inviter au départ, le feu de la samba nous transporter vers la fête...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2013
La GUÍA10 de Buenos Aires recopila lo mejor de la capital argentina para sacar el máximo provecho a una escapada de varios días. Se detallan los 10 puntos de imprescindible visita en la ciudad, se recomiendan 10 restaurantes especialmente seleccionados para esta guía, así como 10 tiendas de interés...
by Enno Witfeld
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Die Sprachführer der Kauderwelsch-Reihe orientieren sich am typischen Reisealltag und vermitteln auf anregende Weise das nötige Rüstzeug, um ohne lästige Büffelei möglichst schnell mit dem Sprechen beginnen zu können, wenn auch vielleicht nicht immer druckreif. Besonders hilfreich ist hierbei...
by Wolfgang Falkenberg, Nancy Silva
Language: German
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Der Tourismus in Ecuador floriert, vor allem Galápagos mit seiner einzigartigen Tier- und Pflanzenwelt lockt viele Menschen aus allen Teilen der Erde hierher. Auf dem Festland hingegen kann man noch nicht von Massentourismus sprechen: Es gibt viele Städte und Dörfer, in denen eine Verständigung...
by K. Eckland
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
What do you really know about your doctor? Is he just a nice genial person, a fellow golfer or crackjack surgeon? What really goes on behind the closed doors of the operating room? These are questions that thousands of people cannot answer, and most do not even know what questions to ask. As an insider...
From Two Republics to One Divided
Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1997
From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic from the local perspective of Andean peasant politics. Thurner’s reading of the Andean peasantry’s engagement and disengagement with the postcolonial state challenges long-standing...
Reforming Chile
Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural...