Latin America category: 3090 books
American Civil Wars
The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world,...
by Jeremy D. Popkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration of Haiti’s independence in 1804.
Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as the author’s...
Do the Poor Count?
Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by...
by D.H. Figueredo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Aimed at beginners, this book looks at the history, folklore, and traditions of Hispanics in the United States and Latin America from the 16th century to the present day.
Violent Delights, Violent Ends
Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony—colonial institutions...
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city"...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors...
Theater of a Thousand Wonders
A History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during...
To Be a Worker
Identity and Politics in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and...
Brazil in the Making
Facets of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them...
by Dr. Jay C. Polmar
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Planning a trip to Latin America. Planning to retire in Mexico or down south. Do you just need to be able to talk to your Spanish speaking neighbors in the US or elsewhere Simply, use The Gringo Guide, and be ready to talk and tget all your needs met: At the airport, at restaurants, on tourist buses,...
BESIDE BOLIVAR
The Edecán Demarquet
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Simon Bolivar said of Eloy Demarquet: “Demarquet does not know how to lie or slander; I believe him loyal and sincere”. Though this French officer, a veteran of Napoleon's wars, is rarely mentioned in works on Bolivar, the latter's correspondence documents the close relationship between the two...
by La Mariposa
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Hot flashes light a blazing fire under Mariposa as she sets out on a two-fold quest to understand both Guatemalan NGOs and Latin males. Magical men, married men, manic men... Mariposa rides the relationship roller coaster both at home and abroad until a tragic incident makes her realize that, to get the right answer, you first need to ask the right question.
by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Mary Jo Porter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Description
Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His “diary of dystopia”—an unexpected fusion of images and words—brings us closer to Havana’s scaffolded...