Latin category: 3540 books
by Javier Velaza
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This volume contains the papers of the colloquium Protohistory of the Text, which took place on 28 and 29 November 2013 at the Universitat de Barcelona. Each paper is devoted to the transmission of a major classical Latin text. The contributors are distinguished scholars from around the world such...
Exploring the World: Adventures of a Global Traveler
Volume Iv: the Dynamics of Asia and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Professor Howard J. Wiarda, a leading academic expert on foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs, is the author of more than eighty books. Wiarda has traveled to many of the worlds most troubled and exciting places. Now, in the more personal accounts of his global travels,...
by Kenneth J. Mijeski, Scott H. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories in Latin American studies today. In this critical work, Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck examine the rise and decline of Ecuador’s leading indigenous party, Pachakutik, as it tried to transform the state into...
Garcilaso Inca de la Vega
An American Humanist, A Tribute to José Durand
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Widely read and translated, Garcilaso is a key figure for understanding the development of mestizo culture in Latin America and his works have sparked many heated debates. This new collection of articles advances that discussion through contributions by twelve distinguished scholars who review central...
by Michael F. Kastre, Veronica K. El-Showk
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Walking in the Clouds is a true story about events experienced by an American writer who lived and worked in Colombia in the 1980s, a painful period of political upheaval, violent cocaine wars, and leftist guerrilla uprisings. As a freelancer, Michael Kastre's livelihood depended on finding relevant...
by Peter V. N. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This book explores the life and times of Ecuador's most controversial politician within the broader context of the new political history, addressing five major themes of nineteenth-century Latin American history: the creation of political networks, the divisiveness of regionalism, the bitterness of...
Cuban Foreign Policy
Transformation under Raúl Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This volume illustrates the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro. Leading scholars from around the world show how the significant shift in foreign policy direction that started in 1990 after the implosion of the Soviet Union has continued, in many ways taking totally unexpected...
Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid are three of the most important—and influential—works of Western classical literature. Although they differ in subject matter and authorship, these epic poems share a common purpose: to tell the “deeds both of men and of the gods.” Written...
by J. W. Binns
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical attention.
This collection of essays...
Cuba’s Gay Revolution
Normalizing Sexual Diversity Through a Health-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Cuba’s Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and...
The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution
The Light in the Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The book interprets the Cuban revolutionary movement from 1868 to 1959 as a continuous process that sought political independence and social and economic transformation of colonial and neocolonial structures. Cuba is a symbol of hope for the Third World. The Cuban Revolution took power from a national...
Pérou
Géographie, économie, histoire et politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Avec ses paysages très contrastés et ses écosystèmes variés, le Pérou fait partie des pays qui possèdent la plus grande biodiversité de la planète. En 2012, 29,5 millions de Péruviens vivent sur ce territoire de 1 285 216 kilomètres carrés, divisé en trois grands ensembles géographiques : le désert, fine frange côtière entre l'océan Pacifique et...
Barrio Rising
Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion.
Based...
Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000
Waging War and Negotiating Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Violence In Colombia provides students with a deeper understanding of the crisis facing Colombia today. The book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the oldest and largest guerrilla insurgency in the Americas and the emergence of a powerful paramilitary right. The decade...