Central America category: 775 books
by David Aliano
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina offers new perspectives on the politics of identity formation while providing a transatlantic example of the dynamic interplay between the Italian state and its emigrant communities. It is in short, a transnational perspective on what it means to belong to a nation.
Blood on the Border
A Memoir of the Contra War
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s...
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places
The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
David Whisnant provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power, and policy in Nicaragua over the last 450 years. Spanning a broad spectrum of popular and traditional expressive forms--including literature, music, film, and broadcast media--the book explores the...
The Quiet Revolutionaries
Seeking Justice in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The last three decades of the twentieth century brought relentless waves of death squads, political kidnappings, and other traumas to the people of Guatemala. Many people fled the country to escape the violence. Yet, at the same moment, a popular movement for justice brought together unlikely bands of...
by Juan Carlos Castillón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Una claustrófobica y vertiginosa novela sobre la violencia y sus efectos dehumanizadores en quienes la ejercen, por vocación, convicción o puro azar.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Armed conflicts have a destabilizing effect on individual nations and the international community alike. Conversely, reducing warfare has a positive effect on both national and international...
Citizens of Memory
Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how...
Our Elders Teach Us
Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves.
Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research...
War by Other Means
Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means brings...
Myths of Modernity
Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
In Myths of Modernity, Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua’s transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country’s capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and...
The Awakening Coast
An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua...
Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico
Defining Racial Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within...
Vecinos de casa poblada
Los Gómez de Portugal de Santa María de los Lagos, 1563-1810
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Esta investigación pertenece a la historia social, específicamente a la línea interesada en el estudio de las familias de las élites locales del Antiguo Régimen, cuyas herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas nos permiten comprender las actitudes y los comportamientos de las sociedades rurales...
by Haydee Sosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Desidi haser esta fantasia por 50 aos de confusion del pueblo cubano Que no los deja encontrar su paz. Buscando el alientos tal vez en mitos Claudia representa al pueblo, Marjinado y confundido yeno de temores Y luchando siempre no perder el cordon unblicar con el que todos nasemos