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Readings in Caribbean History and Culture
Breaking Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of...
The Enlightenment on Trial
Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants...
Everything You Need to Know About Latino History
2008 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
The popular primer to Latino life and culture.
Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making,...
by Philippe R. Girard
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never...
by Joan Dayan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1996
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Dominican Republic Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
The Costa Rica No One Talks About
Politically Incorrect Facts And Information About Pura Vida From A Long Time Resident Of Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
What is The Costa Rica No One Talks About?
The Costa Rica No One Talks About is NOT about trying to sell you Costa Rica or depicting Costa Rica as an idyllic place—there are multiple websites and sources of information that are happily already doing that.
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Brazil - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval and fine coffee, but it is much more than beaches and bossa nova. If you could choose only one word to describe Brazil, it would be diversity. The variety of racial types, lifestyles, wealth, landscape and climate is enormous. Jeitinho...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This monograph tells the narrative of the FARC in Colombia from the perspective of the counterinsurgent and presents a summary of the evolution of the FARC. The Colombian government has achieved recent success against the FARC after more than forty years and examination of their success is useful...
Empire's Crossroads
A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer).
Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected...
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70
Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay...
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by the Spanish Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas.This book is about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times.
Sad and Luminous Days
Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba.
In...
2012 and the End of the World
The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading historians of the Maya answer these questions in a succinct, readable, and accessible style. Matthew Restall...