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The Devil's Book of Culture
History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since the 1950s, the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, has drawn a strange assortment of visitors and pilgrimsschoolteachers and government workers, North American and European spelunkers exploring the region's vast cave system, and counterculturalists from hippies (John Lennon and other celebrities...
The Hidden History of Capoeira
A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking...
by Deborah Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The Iliad and the Odyssey are emotional powerhouses largely because of their extensive use of direct speech. Yet this characteristic of the Homeric epics has led scholars to underplay the poems' use of non-direct speech, the importance of speech represented by characters, and the overall sophistication...
The Cast of Character
Style in Greek Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral settings,...
Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes
Struggle for Justice in the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers—a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of his years with Mendes has never before been translated into English from the Portuguese. Now, Walking...
The Wind that Swept Mexico
The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the first book to present a broad account of that revolution in its several different phases. In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs,...
Resisting Brazil's Military Regime
An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Praised by his many admirers as a "courageous and fearless" defender of human rights, Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getlio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled Sobral's battles with the Vargas...
Crisis in Costa Rica
The 1948 Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Costa Rican revolution of 1948 capped an extended period of social tension and political unrest. This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940–1948 that led to a successful armed uprising. A secondary and related theme is the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement...
For Glory and Bolívar
The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simón Bolívar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in her own right. Yet authors generally have chosen either to romanticize Manuela Sáenz or to discount her altogether. For Glory and Bolivar: The Remarkable...
Women Who Live Evil Lives
Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society...
by Forrest D. Colburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Histories of revolutions often focus on military, political, or economic upheavals but sometimes neglect to connect these larger events to the daily lives of "ordinary" people. Yet the peoples' perception that "things are worse than before" can topple revolutionary governments, as shown by the recent...
The Education of a Radical
An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
"I went to Nicaragua with nothing but a tourist visa, $1,500 in cash, the name of someone at the Agrarian Reform Ministry, and the idea of being a revolutionary intellectual. . . . The idea took hold in a simple character flaw: wanting to believe that I knew better than everyone else."—From the...
Banana Cultures
Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana...
Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador
A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the government. The broadcast provided a vital link between combatants in the mountains and the outside world,...