Latin America category: 3090 books
by Chefs Secret Vault
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
South American or Latin American foods blend a medley of cultures with distinct flavors and tastes.We have discovered 20 of the best South American recipes to share with you so you can enjoy this delicious cuisine in your own home. We have hand selected 20 Best of the Best and most inviting...
Intercultural Utopias
Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Although only 2 percent of Colombia’s population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country’s indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and 80 percent of the country’s mineral resources are located...
Conceiving Freedom
Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late...
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996
The U.S.-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. In U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Oscar Martinez has brought together both scholarly essays and primary documents that address the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference...
by Jennifer S. Holmes, Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Kevin M. Curtin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary groups in response to rebel insurgencies of the 1960s, the expansion of an illegal drug industry that has permeated politics and society since the 1970s, and a faltering economy in...
Infrastructures of Race
Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city with a garrison of Spanish troops. But the practice of spatial concentration—gathering people and things...
by Paris Permenter
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
We travel to grow – our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise – sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people....
by Richard Arghiris
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Sliced, spliced and spread across a mountainous interior, Honduras is a collection of chaotic Latin cities, tropical sun-drenched beaches and swathes of beautiful hillside. Dive the stunning submarine world off the Caribbean coast, explore the cloud forest near Lago Yojoa or simply relax in a hammock...
by Ian Bolden
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the entertainment capital of Orlando, Florida. Orlando sees 52 million tourists a year, and downtown Orlando is developing significantly under this tourist boom. When people think of Orlando, most think of theme parks and a vast urban sprawl. However,...
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 affecting...
Mexico City & Cancun Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Mexico’s capital city is an ancient gem. The city center is focused near the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) and the historic Aztec Templo Mayor, can be found here. The Zocalo is the largest square in Latin America and the third largest in the world. Located in the state of Quintana Roo on the...
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why...
The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez
The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating...
by Kenny Afonin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The author describes his less than pleasant experience living in the Latin American country of Brazil. This book will reveal personal experiences and the gritty reality of what real corruption and poverty looks like. It's what a decent man wants the world to know. It's what the Brazilian government doesn't want to tell you.