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The Chicken and the Quetzal

Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest

by Paul Kockelman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO...
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by Brenda Winters
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016

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Reimagining National Belonging

Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context

by Robin Maria DeLugan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of post–civil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an extended and divisive conflict, took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. In tracing state-led efforts...
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In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers

Climate Change and Andean Society

by Mark Carey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010

Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes from scientific studies that try to estimate impacts and project future climate scenarios. This book is different, illustrating...
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by Njord Kane
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016

Definitively tracing the evolution and history of the Maya civilization from the arrival of migrating 'first peoples' to the end of the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican World with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. A span of some thousands of years are concisely covered in one volume in a thorough...
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Youth in Postwar Guatemala

Education and Civic Identity in Transition

by Michelle J. Bellino
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people learn about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala’s civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country’s history of authoritarianism...
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Historiografía francesa

Corrientes temáticas y metodológicas recientes

by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Ensayos de historiadores franceses que exploran nuevas corrientes temáticas, reflexionan acerca de la historiografía crítica y abren nuevas fuentes y preguntas, en un intento por restablecer la cadena pasado-presente que observe los cambios, las permanencias y las diferentes reacciones de los individuos...
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México Francia

Memoria de una sensibilidad común; siglos XIX-XX. Tomo II

by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013

"¿Ganaríamos los mexicanos, si la razón o el capricho nos condujese a un rápido desafrancesamiento?", fue la pregunta que en 1867, al triunfo de los juaristas, formuló Ignacio Ramírez a los intelectuales que desataron un revuelo antigalo. El Nigromante probó entonces la existencia...
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by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Quetzalcóatl, Alejandro Magno, Emiliano Zapata, Inkarrí, Beltrán de Born, Nezahualcóyotl, Cong Hoy y Miguel Hidalgo se cuentan entre las complejas figuras heroicas analizadas en este volumen. La idea de reflexionar sobre el tema «El héroe entre el mito y la historia», en un coloquio organizado...
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by Elías Pino Iturrieta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 13, 2016

En la generalidad de los casos, Independencia y retórica e Independencia y lugares comunes han formado habitual pareja. Los hechos de la guerra contra España se han visto acompañados de una fatigosa muestra de estereotipos y de la reiteración de versiones canónicas, ahora engrosadas debido a...
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Temporada de golpes

Las insurrecciones militares contra Rómulo Betancourt

by Edgardo Mondolfi Gudat
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2016

«Temporada de golpes» analiza en profundidad uno de los aspectos de más difícil tránsito en la gestión constitucional de Rómulo Betancourt: tomar medidas estructurales que permitiesen afianzar un control efectivo del sector civil sobre el sector militar, de suerte que la institución castrense...
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La insurrección anhelada

Guerrilla y violencia en la Venezuela de los sesenta

by Edgardo Mondolfi Gudat
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 2, 2018

En estos confusos tiempos de la Revolución Bolivariana, resulta fácil advertir una marcada propensión a enaltecer y rendir culto a la dinámica insurgente de la década de 1960, todo ello con un doble propósito: poner en tela de juicio la actuación de las autoridades democráticas y buscar en...
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El día del atentado

El frustrado magnicidio contra Rómulo Betancourt

by Edgardo Mondolfi Gudat
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2016

La mañana del 24 de junio de 1960, Rómulo Betancourt se disponía a presidir el tradicional desfile militar en la avenida Los Próceres cuando el vehículo que lo conducía fue alcanzado por una poderosa carga explosiva que estalló a su paso. El presidente, quien ya había sorteado peligros de...
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by Kevin Cantillano
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

It's the 1980s, a new generation of young men were drafted into a civil war in their home country, Nicaragua. A country known to be the country of war because of its long history or turmoil and economic depression because of the many civil war caused by its own government. Nicaragua would be recognized...
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