Central category: 1451 books
Our Elders Teach Us
Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves.
Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research...
War by Other Means
Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means brings...
Lost in the Long Transition
Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for...
Postcards from Rio
Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.
By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa...
by Nicole Roberts and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book is distinctive by its trilingual nature; the short stories by Caribbean women writers appear in English, French, Spanish.
Myths of Modernity
Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
In Myths of Modernity, Elizabeth Dore rethinks Nicaragua’s transition to capitalism. Arguing against the idea that the country’s capitalist transformation was ushered in by the coffee boom that extended from 1870 to 1930, she maintains that coffee growing gave rise to systems of landowning and...
The Awakening Coast
An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua...
Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico
Defining Racial Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within...
Vecinos de casa poblada
Los Gómez de Portugal de Santa María de los Lagos, 1563-1810
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Esta investigación pertenece a la historia social, específicamente a la línea interesada en el estudio de las familias de las élites locales del Antiguo Régimen, cuyas herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas nos permiten comprender las actitudes y los comportamientos de las sociedades rurales...
by Haydee Sosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Desidi haser esta fantasia por 50 aos de confusion del pueblo cubano Que no los deja encontrar su paz. Buscando el alientos tal vez en mitos Claudia representa al pueblo, Marjinado y confundido yeno de temores Y luchando siempre no perder el cordon unblicar con el que todos nasemos
El otro Occidente
América Latina desde la invasión europea hasta la globalización
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Examen del encuentro entre Europa y América, y las transformaciones ocurridas mediante un proceso que comenzó con del descubrimiento y continúa hasta el presente siglo XXI. El autor muestra el tejido de las relaciones entre diversos modos de vida, creencias, organizaciones sociales, leyes y costumbres, políticas y economías, que originan así un nuevo modo de civilización Occidental.
Lion and the Journalist
The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A New York Times Bestseller
Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable story of mutual loyalty and dedication that ranges from police corruption on the streets...
Acknowledged Legislator
Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original...
by Paige R. Penland
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The definitive guide to these gorgeous and dramatic sites.
Relax on broad Pacific beaches surrounding the surf town of San Juan del Sur. Dine amidst Spanish Colonial Granada’s elegant architecture. Explore dramatic Ometepe Island. This comprehensive guide covers it all, from nightlife in...