Latin category: 3540 books
Voices of Crime
Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Crime exists in every society, revealing not only the way in which societies function but also exposing the standards that society holds about what is harmful and punishable. Criminalizing individuals and actions is not the exclusive domain of the state; it emerges from the collective consciousness—the...
by Jorge Morel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Renowned Argentine virtuoso Jorge Morel offers insight in the playing of complex Latin dance rhythms: the milongo, tango, samba, malambo, and choro - plus a salsa tune! In standard notation and tablature. Includes access online audio.
by Peter Krahenbuhl
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A guide to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, which provides more geographic, biological and recreational diversity than any other country in Latin America. It contains misty cloud forests, the snow-capped Andes and the Amazon Basin. The natural attractions are unparalleled, and many people come just...
Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900–1939
Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Musicians from Puerto Rico played a substantial role in the development of jazz during the early years of the twentieth century, before and during the years surrounding the Harlem Renaissance. These jazz pioneers, including instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists, were products of the Puerto Rican...
by Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola-Vega
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than thirty travel guides on Cuba available today.Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending...
Che Guevara Reader
Writings on Politics & Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic.
This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara’s writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che’s writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the revolution...
The Motorcycle Diaries
Notes on a Latin American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The New York Times best-selling book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times best seller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old...
From the Ashes of History
Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The formation, organization, and accessibility of archives and libraries are critical for the production of historical narratives. They contain the materials with which historians and others reconstruct past events. Archives and libraries, however, not only help produce history, but also have a history...
Historia Langobardorum
History of the Lombards - Latin
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
A nice book tells us the two centuries of the Lombard kingdom from a point of view other than the papal Franco.
It also contains the Origo and the Chronicon of Andrea from Bergamo.
This ebook has the only purpose God to make the Latin text of Paolo Deacon easily usable.
The book contains a brief...
by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity is a revealing probe into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's most famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book helps to illuminate the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico. Cantinflas (Moreno's film persona)...
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love
The Arpillera Movement in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love tells the story of ordinary women living in terror and extreme poverty under General Pinochet's oppressive rule in Chile (1973–1989). These women defied the military dictatorship by embroidering their sorrow on scraps of cloth, using needles and thread as one...
by Jean Franco
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and...
Victims of the Chilean Miracle
Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both...
by Jerry Dávila
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.
Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
Examines at the ideological...