Central America category: 775 books
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016
LA SCOPERTA DI ALBERTO RUZ LHUILLIER
Indice dei Contenuti
LA SCOPERTA DEL MONDO MAYA
Primi contatti
IL MONDO MAYA: QUADRO GEOGRAFICO E STORICO
Nascita e fioritura delle culture La città maya, una vera città-giardino
Il tribunale
La guerra
RELIGIONE...
Terre et société coloniale
Les communautés Maya-Quiché de la région de Rabinal du XVIe au XIXe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Ce livre est le résultat d'une thèse de 1983, dans lequel l'auteur étudie les villes et villages de la région de Baja Verapaz, la Capitainerie générale du Guatemala, et concentre son analyse sur les structures agricoles régionales et la mise en œuvre d'un système d'exploitation des populations...
Naissance d'une société métisse
Aspects socio-économiques du Paraguay de la Conquête à travers les dossiers testamentaires
Language: French
Release Date: October 21, 2014
La conquête du Paraguay (1536-fin du XVIe siècle) se confond avec celle du Río de la Plata et avait pour objectif principal la découverte des mines argentifères de la Cordillère des Andes. L’hostilité des indigènes et les pénuries dont souffrirent les conquistadores pendant plusieurs années...
Do cabaré ao lar
A utopia da cidade disciplinar e a resistência anarquista
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Uma análise esclarecedora do movimento anarquista brasileiro. Desafiando a tradição de uma história do movimento operário escrita por intelectuais e lideranças ligadas ao Partido Comunista, Margareth Rago traz à cena a militância anarquista, que até então havia sido desqualificada, atirada...
by Émile de Wogan
Language: French
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Le baron de Wogan a beaucoup voyagé dans sa vie, et il aimait écrire. De ces deux passions combinées il créait des récits passionnants, où l’action et l’aventure tiennent la bonne place. Dolorita en est un exemple. L’auteur nous emmène ici dans les jungles de l’Amérique du Sud, pour...
Domesticating Empire
Enlightenment in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest,...
Other Roots, The
Wandering Origins in Roots of Brazil and the Impasses of Modernity in Ibero-America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots,...
Writing across Cultures
Narrative Transculturation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often...
Nossa and Nuestra América
Inter-American Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors,...
Darwinism in Argentina
Major Texts (1845-1909)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers, scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This selection of texts provides a thorough overview of the...
by Andrés Bello
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1998
Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of...
by Lawrence Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Somewhere beyond the Salish Sea lived the Stout Men who did the Megin River, and Tibet, and the Amazon. There was Tictac and Poldy, Cliffy and Madame, Captain and Gung, and Papa Smurf, who would die someday, but not yet. These are the stories of where they rushed headlong, towards adventure and suffering, and how it all took place.