Latin category: 3540 books
The Invaded
How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua,...
Latin America since Independence
Two Centuries of Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This innovative text offers a clear and concise introduction to Latin America since independence. Thomas C. Wright traces continuity and change in five central colonial legacies: authoritarian governance; a rigid social hierarchy based on race, color, and gender; the powerful Roman Catholic Church;...
Sovereign Emergencies
Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights...
Disciplinary Conquest
U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Disciplinary Conquest Ricardo D. Salvatore rewrites the origin story of Latin American studies by tracing the discipline's roots back to the first half of the twentieth century. Salvatore focuses on the work of five representative U.S. scholars of South America—historian Clarence Haring, geographer...
Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition
Woman in Latin American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition....
by Frances R. Aparicio, María Isabel Carvajal Araya, Julia Chindemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particularly in terms of the birth, configuration, and perpetuation of national identities. It argues that these...
by Diana Beuster
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Classic Philology - Latin philology - Medivial and Modern Latin, grade: Gut (B), Indiana University (Department for Classical Studies), course: Readings of Medieval Latin, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: At the council of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
What are the implications of ideology in the endurance of competitive authoritarian regimes? This study aims to study this connection through a comparison of two recent studies in Latin America,...
by Blair Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
A comprehensive, timely, and entertaining account of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of more than thirty discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information possible. The information is presented in an objective,...
Latin America's Radical Left
Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist militants and intellectuals in South America. This new generation, formed primarily by people who in the late 1960s were still under the age of thirty, challenged traditional politics and embraced...
In Search of Christ in Latin America
From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
"A treasure of a book! Escobar includes historical, sociological, political, and theological information and insights that give us the complex layers of understanding Christology in Latin America starting with its roots in Iberian theology and focusing on the Christology in the twentieth century....
by N. R. Oulton
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This PDF download provides a complete set of answers to the exercises in Latin for Common Entrance Three.
- Clear layout saves time marking work
- Enables efficient assessment of pupils' strengths and weaknesses
- Advice and guidance develops pupils' use of the language
Please note that as a PDF download, this product is non-refundable.
Veni Vidi Didici
Have Fun Learning Latin with Songs, Games, Puzzles and Jokes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
An engaging Latin guide filled with all sorts of fun and laughs that make learning the language a blast
Seize the day with a fun, new guide to the ultimate language. Whether you’re looking to show up your teacher or have a laugh with friends, Veni Vidi Didici will give you the knowledge to...
Legends of Early Rome
Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
In this text for upper-beginner and intermediate students, Brian Beyer collects authentic Latin prose from Book I of Eutropius’s Breviarium ab urbe condita, which covers Roman history from its foundation to the sack of Rome by the Gauls. Eutropius’s easy style and accessible vocabulary make his Breviarium...