Latin category: 3540 books
Cuban Flute Style
Interpretation and Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and Fajardo y...
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...
by Robinson A. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The first century of Spanish colonization in Latin America witnessed the birth of cities that, while secondary to great metropolitan centers such as Mexico City and Lima, became important hubs for regional commerce. Santiago de Guatemala, the colonial capital of Central America, was one of these....
The Redemptive Work
Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book! Professor Kim Clark explores a time period and country for which little has been published in English. By studying the dimensions of politics and culture as one, Professor Clark argues that the local railroad case served as a demonstration of some of the problems...
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 James Butrica
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50–ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected...
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...
On Site, In Sound
Performance Geographies in América Latina
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of geographic space. Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Dorr shows how sonic production and spatial formation...
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...
The Great Woman Singer
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these...
by Michael R. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
One of the world’s poorest nations, Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti proclaimed its independence from France on January 1, 1804 following the only successful slave revolt in the Americas. As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Haiti became the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people. The colonizers’ intent was to homogenize these cultures and make all of them “Indian.” The creation of those new identities is the subject of...