Central category: 1451 books
Tensions of Modernity
Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...
Citizenship Under Pressure
The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
This is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaica's formative postcolonial moment, the years between 1972 and 1980.
Brazil Apart
1964-2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right
What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about?
Perry Anderson, foremost observer...
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.
Postcolonial Tourism
Literature, Culture, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only dramatize...
by Collectif Ulysse
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Idée d’itinéraire - Le Honduras est un court extrait en format numérique tiré du beau livre Ulysse « Amérique latine et Caraïbes – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 9 jours à travers les principales régions touristiques du pays depuis la capitale Tegucigalpa...
by Collectif Ulysse
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Idée d’itinéraire - Le Venezuela et ses différents visages est un court extrait en format numérique tiré du beau livre Ulysse « Amérique latine et Caraïbes – 50 itinéraires de rêve ». Il suggère brièvement un itinéraire de 9 jours à travers les différentes régions touristiques...
by Thomas C. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, including widespread democratization and the rise of the "Pink Tide."
• Explains how and why Fidel Castro established communism in...
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...
The Specter of Races
Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the early twentieth century thanks to the work of European and Latin American anthropologists.
In the Shadows of Divine Perfection
Derek Walcott's Omeros
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the...
Colonial Angels
Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious...
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...
Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America
Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this bookvisits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in dialogue...