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The Moral Electricity of Print
Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women's Circuit, 1876-1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section
Moral electricity—a term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society. This concept...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
by Rajeshwari Dutt
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community’s interests as early national Yucatán underwent major political and social shifts....
by Ramesh Raj Kunwar
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
The world is getting smaller inside every day due to the rapid advancement of transport and communication and mans life is getting busier in a closed, stereotyped and monotonous society. Man by nature cannot live in confinement. He seeks change to invigorate himself from time to time. He is always tempted...
by Jorge Aguilar Mora
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Los ensayos aquí reunidos crean otra literatura mexicana, fundada en una lectura que no duda en dar rodeos por otras literaturas en busca de ejemplos y diferencias esenciales, de continuidades y de rupturas; una lectura donde las literaturas son la literatura y la digresión es generosidad, desvío indispensable y agradecible.
How to Cook a Tapir
A Memoir of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long “working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping...
Crime At El Escorial
The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain’s intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: How can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study analyzes contemporary civil-military relations in three Latin American countries: Brazil, El Salvador, and Uruguay. Since 2010, each country has elected a president who was previously...
Exploring the World: Adventures of a Global Traveler
Volume Iv: the Dynamics of Asia and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Professor Howard J. Wiarda, a leading academic expert on foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs, is the author of more than eighty books. Wiarda has traveled to many of the worlds most troubled and exciting places. Now, in the more personal accounts of his global travels,...
Pulltrouser Swamp
Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Among Mesoamericanists, the agricultural basis of the ancient Maya civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula has been an important topic of research—and controversy. Interest in the agricultural system of the Maya greatly increased as new discoveries showed that the lowland Maya were not limited to slash-and-burn...
Green Phoenix
Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the...
Trade Unionists Against Terror
Guatemala City, 1954-1985
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms...
Stories of Civil War in El Salvador
A Battle over Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador's...