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Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
Local Factors in Nation-Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Following on a series of RAND Corporation studies of nation-building, this monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes in these interventions. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditions to promote enduring peace.
After Human Rights
Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity...
by Paul R. McAleer
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American...
by Jerónimo Arellano
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in the light of the cultural history of the emotions, and in conversation with contemporary theories of the affects. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative...
The Fantasy of Globalism
The Latin American Neo-Baroque
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my book is the perceived foreclosure of any alternatives to the capitalistic ideology that structures globalization....
by Flavie Halais
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Marquée par des années de violences urbaines, Medellín, capitale industrielle de la Colombie, se reconstruit peu à peu. Visite.
Trekking Tibet
A Traveler's Guide, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
* Thoroughly revised and updated new edition
* Features one of the most detailed histories of Tibetan culture and geography available for travelers
* Includes a new trekking route over a glaciated 19,300-foot pass used by H einrich H arrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet
In the new edition...
Vestiges of the Mayas
Or, facts tending to prove that Communications and Intimate Relations must have existed, in very remote times, between the inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Nicaragua Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Guatemala Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by La Mariposa
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Hot flashes light a blazing fire under Mariposa as she sets out on a two-fold quest to understand both Guatemalan NGOs and Latin males. Magical men, married men, manic men... Mariposa rides the relationship roller coaster both at home and abroad until a tragic incident makes her realize that, to get the right answer, you first need to ask the right question.
Patagonian Road
A Year Alone Through Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Spanning four seasons, 10 countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel...
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Gender, Culture, and Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale, ethnic composition and economic resources, yet shared distinct historical and cultural...