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by J. Evetts Haley
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT—The XIT Ranch of Texas.
It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties it became the largest single operation in the...
by Laura A. Macaluso, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Tour Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia, from Monticello to the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond, with a guide that “mixes historical background with how-tos” (Daily Press).
Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of “Jefferson Country”...
by Euclides da Cunha
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality.
"Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is...
Yutopian
Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly,...
My Colombian War
A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A timely, evocative account of a reporter's reckoning with her homeland's volatile past
Growing up in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, Silvana Paternostro indulged in the typical concerns of a privileged young girl: friendships and parties, school and family. But soon it became apparent...
Leprosy and Colonialism
Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people...
Addicted to Failure
U.S. Security Policy in Latin America and the Andean Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
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This perceptive book critically explores why the United States continues to pursue failed policies in Latin America. What elements of the U.S. and Latin American political systems have allowed the Cold War, the war on drugs, and...
The Pinochet Generation
The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Chilean soldiers in the twentieth century appear in most historical accounts, if they appear at all, as decontextualized figures or simply as a single man: Augusto Pinochet. In his incisive study The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century, John R. Bawden provides compelling...
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet’s regime (1973–1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman...
by Phyllis R. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a "100 percent Brazilian movement." It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United...
by Juan José Saer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."-Ricardo Piglia
"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess."-Bookforum
In modern-day Paris, Pichón Garay receives...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes
At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1995
Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective...
Unfinished Conversations
Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum—and started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Yucatan. In this thought-provoking history of a century-long "unfinished conversation" between...