Central America category: 775 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The only value-priced, full-color edition of the pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Features 88 color plates of kings, gods, heroes, temples, sacrifices, and more. New introduction.
by Annick Sanjurjo, Albert J Casciero
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
It happens rarely that a foreign craft is so intensely identified with a region to the extent that it becomes its symbol. However, that is exactly what happened with the old Spanish lace from Extremadura, which in Paraguay even lost its name and was baptized with another that does not corresponds...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization. The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent...
by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In the 1960s and 1970s, El Salvador's reigning military regime instituted a series of reforms that sought to modernize the country and undermine ideological radicalism, the most ambitious of which was an education initiative. It was multifaceted, but its most controversial component was the use of...
The Yaquis and the Empire
Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Market Ethics and Practices, c. 1300–1850 analyses the nature, development, and operation of market ethics in the context of social practices, ranging from rituals of exchange and unofficial expectations to law, institutions, and formal regulations from the late medieval through to the modern era.
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by Varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Las Crónicas de América marcan el primer hito de la literatura hispanoamericana. La voz de los escritores españoles despierta, de súbito, en un mundo mágico y sorprendente. El milagro, el héroe, el monstruo, la Providencia, son flores de ese mundo mágico.
Program of Economic Reactivation for the Benefit of the People 1980
Programa de Reactivación Económica en Beneficio del Pueblo para 1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The 1980 Nicaraguan Program of Economic Reactivation for the Benefit of the People is a bilingual (English/Spanish) historic document from the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution that offers a detailed program to address economic inequality that today has spun out of control around the world. It analyses...
Maya after War
Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán,...
The Broken Village
Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village—called here by the pseudonym La Quebrada—was...
To Die in this Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
The Grimace of Macho Ratón
Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic...
Human Rights in the Maya Region
Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements...
La Travesia de Enrique
La arriesgada odisea de un niño en busca de su madre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Actualizada con un nuevo epílogo, reflexiones finales, fotos de Enrique y su familia, una entrevista con la autora y mucho más, esta es la versión definitiva de un clásico contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos.
Basada en la serie de Los Angeles Times ganadora de dos premios Pulitzer—al...