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The Age of Trade
The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and...
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica
Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the...
Labor and Love in Guatemala
The Eve of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations...
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 Return of the Native
Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. Just over a century earlier, military campaigns began to extend power across a broad swath of the Andean region, bringing local societies into new relationships with colonists and officials...
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...
by Barbara L. Solow
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and...
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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...
by Lynne Macedo
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
This is Dabydeen's academic works which comprises a series of interviews. In it he tackles the controversial aspects of race, ethnicity and "belonging".