Latin category: 3540 books
Contrary Destinies
A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and political scientists interested in international relations between the United States and other countries in the region."--Leslie G. Desmangles, author of...
by John Waggoner
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 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....
Sounds of Belonging
U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration.
Winner, Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Latino Studies Best...
Our Indigenous Ancestors
A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carolyne Larson demonstrates how scientists, collectors,...
Cuba Roundtrip
A Photo Travel Guide to Photo Shot Spots Using Google Maps Locating
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
Blurb: Cuba is a fascinating country that is very different from the other countries in Latin America. Many people who think of Cuba, spontaneously have sugar cane, palm trees, salsa, coffee, rum, cigars, orchids, sun and crystal clear water in front of their eyes. But the island offers much more....
Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution
Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of Revolution (1780–1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in recent revolution-centered versions of the Latin American independence processes, their story is an essential part of the...
by Waggoner, John
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
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. This...
by Floyd Merrell, María Teresa DePaoli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas has been updated. This textbook not only describes the history of Latin America, but it sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of...
The Last Caudillo
Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America.
Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in Mexico's revolutionary past
Represents...
Latinos, Inc.
The Marketing and Making of a People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing...
The Chile Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in English. The history of Chile is rendered from diverse perspectives, including those of Mapuche Indians...
Left in Transformation
Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Network, 1967 -1984
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms and ideas interact with political interests, both global and domestic. It examines joint actions by...
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 - Literature, grade: Gut (B), Indiana University (Department for Classical Studies), course: Roman Lyrik and Elegy, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'The friendship between Horace and Maecenas...
by Bernard E. Bobb
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
When Antonio María Bucareli took up his duties in 1771 as the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, he assumed command of a magnificent complexity of land areas, large and small, whose people constituted a cultural and social entity ranging from the traditional Apache to the European gentleman of the Enlightenment....