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  • The Mexican War 1846–1848

    par Douglas V Meed ...
    Collections series Guide to...
    A concise guide to the war with Mexico, one of the most decisive conflicts in American history.After smashing Mexico's armies the young republic bestrode the North American continent like a colossus with one leg anchored on the Atlantic seaboard and the other on the Pacific. It was a bitter, hard fought war that raged across Mexico through the northern deserts, the fever-ridden Gulf cities and the ... En savoir plus

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  • Hostage Nation

    Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs

    A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Earth Beings

    Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

    Collections Livre 2011 - The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices ... En savoir plus

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  • Fortifications of the Incas

    1200–1531

    Collections Livre 47 - Fortress
    The greatest period of Inca expansion occurred during the reigns of Pachacuti (1438–71), Tupa Inca (1471–93), and Huayna Capac (1493–1527).From the mountain stronghold of Cuzco, they subjugated the surrounding kingdoms and territories, absorbing their civilizations and their peoples. By 1525, they dominated much of the west of the continent, relying on fortified strongholds, an extensive system of ... En savoir plus

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  • Mama Africa

    Reinventing Blackness in Bahia

    Traduit par Elena Langdon ...
    Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness. Combining insights from anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, Pinho considers how Afro-Bahian ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Greening Brazil

    Environmental Activism in State and Society

    Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment, and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. The authors trace ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast

    Collections series Latin America in Translation
    Brazil's Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the country's poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work, the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by inhabitants of other parts of Brazil but also by nordestinos themselves. His broader question though, is how "the Northeast" ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Most Scandalous Woman

    Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru

    In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patriarchal society. Magda Portal, a poet and journalist, would become one of Latin America’s most successful and controversial politicians. In this richly nuanced portrayal of Portal, historian Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes chronicles the dramatic rise and ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • German Buenos Aires, 1900–1933

    Social Change and Cultural Crisis

    Collections series Texas Pan American Series
    This study of the German community of early twentieth-century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience. Beginning with the first wave of immigration in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the outbreak of World War II, Ronald C. Newton reconstructs the growth, development, and influence of a powerful foreign ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics

    Argentine Art in the Sixties

    Collections series Latin America Otherwise
    The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Axis of Unity

    par Sean Goforth ...
    Two of the most prominent trends in world affairs over the past decadethe projection of American power abroad and high energy priceshave made for some strange bedfellows. Flush with oil revenues, autocratic governments in Venezuela, Iran, and Russia have tried to counter U.S. influence not only in Latin America but around the world.In Axis of Unity, Sean Goforth explores the motives and ... En savoir plus

    $41.16 CAD