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To Overcome Oneself
The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through...
A History of Violence
Living and Dying in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world
El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people—men, women, and children—flee these three countries for North America....
by Frank Tenney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro (also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) (October 15, 70 BCE September 21, 19 BCE) was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works—the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics and the Aeneid—although several minor...
by Fran Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
In Brazil, you can commune with spirits and dance with gods. In Brazil, you can learn a lot about life’s possibilities.
Seven years of travel in Brazil saw Fran Bryson’s fascination with the country develop into something of an obsession with its culture, religions, and history. During...
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic
The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Using a rich array of documents and firsthand interviews with U.S. and Cuban officials, he tells the story of the attempts and failures of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. He concludes that...
Trained to Kill
The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Che
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A “chilling” insider exposé from a CIA-backed leader of the anti-Castro movement in Havana, written with a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist (Mark Crispin Miller, author of Cruel and Unusual).
Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA’s decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel...
by John Ball
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
A tour round the South American continent, which was completed in so short a time as five months, may not appear to deserve any special record; yet I am led to hope that this little book may serve to induce others to visit a region so abounding in sources of enjoyment and interest. There is no part of...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Saba 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.
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The Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority...
Conflicts and Conspiracies
Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Visions of Solidarity
U.S. Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women's Activism and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Visions of Solidarity is currently the only study of peace activist's transformation from an anti-war struggle to an anti-globalization struggle. It explores the power dynamics between citizen activists in the Global North and South, examining efforts at reframing issues of social justice over time,...
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas
The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
God's Middle Finger
Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in the...
Cholas in Bowlers
Journey to Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
With two grown-up sons, a satisfying job as a journalist, great friends and plenty of interests, life for Jane Mundy was humming along nicely when, out of the blue and in the most unlikely of places, she met Graham. In no time at all she had abandoned her comfortable life and run away with him to...