Latin category: 3540 books
When Dead Tongues Speak
Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
When Dead Tongues Speak introduces classicists to the research that linguists, psychologists, and language teachers have conducted over the past thirty years and passes along their most important insights. The essays cover a broad range of topics, including cognitive styles, peer teaching and collaboration,...
Solidarity Transformed
Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found himself in the middle of violent raids, was detained and interrogated in a Salvadoran basement prison cell, and survived a bombing in a union cafeteria. This...
Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across...
Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome
Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book is also available as a set, together with Volume I.
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Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome is the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531). In a remarkable career during which...
Beyond Civil Society
Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century...
Corazón: from the Heart of Latin America
A Documentary Journey Through Mexico, Central America, and the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
W.R. Stanton spent the early 1970s hitchiking, taking buses, and riding atop trains and trucks through Mexico, Central America, and the Andes, seeking to experience more of the native culture he had fallen in love with during an earlier trip to Mexico. Almost twenty years later, as a professional...
The Generation of '72
Latin America's Forced Global Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical...
by Adriana Cerletti, Silvia Citro, Carlos Molinero
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music,...
FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations....
Musicians in Transit
Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the transnational careers of seven of the most influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alemán, jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri, composer Lalo Schifrin, tango innovator Astor Piazzolla, balada...
American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in...
Oye Como Va!
Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called "Latin" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente’s tune...
Rank and Privilege
The Military and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Dr. Linda A. RodrÌguez has assembled a new collection of essays that finally provides the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. The articles included here examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century...
Brazil, 1964-1985
The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central...