Latin America category: 3090 books
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers
From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1997
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of the twentieth century. Emphasizing the integration of traditional labor history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity,...
by María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema responds to the renewed interest in class within and outside academia by examining the aesthetics and politics of class in a representative selection of films from the contemporary cinemas of Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina....
Looking South
The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
A comprehensive, ambitious, and valuable work on an increasingly important subject
In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious...
by Kit Ronallo
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. This beautiful city is often referred to as the “Paris of South America”.
Buenos Aires is a major Latin American tourist attraction and offers a large choice of cultural events,...
Aya Awakenings
A Shamanic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of "spiritual tourists," rogue scientists, black magicians,...
Santiago's Children
What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little...
Paisanos
The Irish and the Liberation of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune, and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the...
Nobody Rides for Free
A Drifter's Guide to the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Nobody Rides For Free: A Drifter in the Americas chronicles former bike courier John Hughes' rambles through Latin America on a bicycle. In this gripping mosaic-travellogue, readers are introduced to banditos, artists, grifters, would-be wives, dope fiends and attacking monkeys: a cast of characters...
by Amerigo Vespucci
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely...
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement,...
Pillaging the Empire
Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives...
Chasing Che
A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And...
Chile - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north—with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved,...
Colombia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Colombia is a magical country, full of spectacular varied landscapes, rare ecosystems, succulent tropical fruits, salsa and cumbia music, and kind, fun-loving people. The modern culture is a synthesis of Spanish, indigenous, and African traditions, evident in the music, the food, and Barranquilla's...