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Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua

Opposition and Accommodation, 1979-1993

by Rose J. Spalding
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

By tracing the complex relationship between the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan business elite, this book examines the shifting mix of alliances and oppositions that shaped the Sandinista revolution. Rose Spalding takes issue with models of the business sector that assume a high degree of...
Cover of I Maya
by Passerino Editore
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 22, 2019

Gli antichi Maya si insediarono in Mesoamerica dove svilupparono una civiltà nota per l'arte, per l'architettura, per i raffinati sistemi matematici e astronomici, e per la scrittura: l'unico sistema noto di scrittura pienamente sviluppato nelle Americhe precolombiane. I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.
Cover of Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
by Cynthia Steele
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre and to the social crisis it signaled in terms of political change and gender identity.
Cover of Raíces en Movimiento: prácticas religiosas tradicionales en contextos translocales
by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Qué tienen en común un santero y un conchero y qué comperten éstos con un practicante del new age ? Ésta y otras cuestiones son el hilo conductor de la obra que ahora el lector tiene en sus manos, un libro que nunca dejará de tomar en cuenta la profundidad histórica y la dimensión política...
Cover of Cuba: Istruzioni per l'uso
by Gianluca Giusti
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2014

Descrivere Cuba in poche righe è impossibile tanto particolare è la sua realtà, un paese profondamente affascinante quanto contradditorio, con incredibili bellezze e sconcertanti assurdità. Così attraente da disorientare ma anche da saper “usare” e conoscere per viverla al meglio. Quello...
Cover of Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: Spanish Reading for Beginners
by Mariana Ferrer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 24, 2016

The aim of this Spanish Short Stories for Beginners book is to help you interiorize new Spanish vocabulary so that you can learn Spanish by reading much faster. The stories you’ll find here are challenging enough so that you can keep learning and absorbing new words and grammatical structures in...
Cover of L'Argentina vista com'è
by Luigi Barzini
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2018

All’inizio del Novecento l’Argentina era una delle “terre promesse” per gli italiani, bisognosi di una speranza, di un avvenire più luminoso e sicuro. Nelle “lettere argentine”, pubblicate dal Corriere della Sera tra la fine del 1901 e il 1902, la penna di Barzini restituisce un quadro...
Cover of Spatialités littéraires et filmiques francophones
by Françoise Naudillon, Mbaye Diouf, Sihem Sidaoui
Language: French
Release Date: September 5, 2018

« Un élargissement des frontières herméneutiques de la spatialité littéraire et cinématographique en francophonie constitue un important et nécessaire moment de réflexion que les études réunies dans ce volume veulent marquer. » Cet ouvrage est l’un des premiers travaux scientifiques...
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Littératures des Caraïbes (Les Grands Articles)

(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016

Le terme « Caraïbe » s'est peu à peu imposé pour nommer l'ensemble des îles et des pays qui bordent la mer des Antilles, en particulier lorsqu'il s'agit de désigner les réalisations culturelles de la région. Il tend à remplacer le mot « antillais » qui s'était diffusé au XIXe siècle dans un contexte colonial.
Cover of Dominica
by Paul Crask
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011

Tiny but perfectly-formed Dominica is one of the most naturally dramatic islands of the Lesser Antilles. This beautiful island with its verdant mountains, lush valleys and dense tropical rainforests is still off the mass-tourism trail. However, cruise ships, hikers, scuba divers and nature-lovers...
Cover of Romulus
by Fernand Hibbert
Language: French
Release Date: June 25, 2013

En 1883, Quatre-vingt-dix exilés politiques conduits par Boyer Bazelais, chef du Parti Libéral, débarquent à Miragoâne avec l’espoir de soulever le pays et de renverser le Président Salomon. S’ensuit un siège de dix mois au cours duquel les deux tiers d’entre eux, ainsi qu’une grande...
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Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature

Critical Regionalism and the Mexican American Southwest

by Melina V. Vizcaíno-Alemán
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017

This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping Chicana/o literary and cultural history from the critical regional perspective of the Mexican American Southwest, it uncovers...
Cover of Juan Gelman, esperanza, utopía y resistencia
by Montanaro, Pablo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Considerado en la actualidad uno de los mayores poetas de habla castellana, Juan Gelman ha construido una obra fundamental que lo ha llevado a ser considerado, año tras año para ser galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Al leerlo observamos lo variado de su producción y la búsqueda de...
Cover of El "Paraíso Infernal" en la narrativa de Roberto Bolaño
by Alexis Candia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Este libro analiza la narrativa de Roberto Bolaño dentro del contexto total de su producción literaria, permitiendo trazar los aspectos esenciales que nutren la escritura de Bolaño en esa conjunción estética e ideológica desde la cual surgen sus textos narrativos.
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