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Ecuador - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Squeezed between Colombia in the north and Peru in the south, Ecuador is named for its location on the Equator and has a landscape so varied that it has been described as a microcosm of every microclimate found in South America. This diversity makes it a magnet for tourists, mountain trekkers, volunteers,...
by The Staff and Contributors at A.M. Costa Rica, James J. Brodell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Every weekday for 16 years English-speaking expats and readers all over the world welcome A.M. Costa Rica to their computer to find out the latest about this country. The original news reports compiled here are geared to the needs of foreigners living here and those elsewhere with personal or business...
CultureShock! Chile
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
CultureShock! Chile is your one-stop guide to settling in the country and adapting to life in a new land. Learn from the authors’ experience as they share insights into the Chilean work etiquette, navigating the class system, setting up home and using the estufa and califont as well as what generally...
CultureShock! Bolivia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
CultureShock! Bolivia provides readers with a thorough understanding of this South American country, a nation steeped in history, culture, and tradition. Containing pages of useful information, advice, tips and resources, this book will guide you through the social and psychic adjustment necessary when...
Vamos a Brasil!
Recollections of a Volunteer Attempting to Teach English in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This is the story of a visit to Brazil by Mike and his wife, Sylvia, in January 2008. Sylvia is a trained and experienced teacher; Mike is not, but he knows a smattering of Portuguese. They were invited to teach English in a mission school in the industrial city of Belo Horizonte, and the story covers...
The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This...
A Risk Taker's Journey
From Trials to Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
At the age of five, Manuel Donoso rode a wooden horse and pretended he was a cowboy. Two years later, he saddled a real horse and became a real “cowboy”. As a teenager, he found himself conscripted into the Chilean Army. While there, he experienced many abuses of power. The witnessing of the crushing...
by Harry Fulsom
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The Governors and the Franciscans contains the only, at least, up to the moment {there must be something beyond narrative and primary documents} chronological record [The history of the province from the fall of Acoma on December 4, 1598, to the great revolt of 1680, can never be made complete, for...
From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico
Laying the Foundations, 1560–1840
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican nation is forever free and independent'. Yet the genealogy of this new nation is not easy to trace. Colonial...
by William J. Conaway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A 30 page book of the History, Legends, and Step-by-Step instructions for touring this 460+ year old Spanish Colonial city. The legends are authentic, and have been handed down generation after generation.The booklet has lots of historic and full color pictures, and is suitable for saving as a souvenier.
Agents of Orthodoxy
Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this...
by Sarah E. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.
In 1620 Sor Jerónima de la Asunción (1556–1630) and her cofounders left their...
by Peter B. Villella
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Modern Mexico derives many of its richest symbols of national heritage and identity from the Aztec legacy, even as it remains a predominantly Spanish-speaking, Christian society. This volume argues that the composite, neo-Aztec flavor of Mexican identity was, in part, a consequence of active efforts...
Creating Conversos
The Carvajal–Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government...