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  • Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond

    Identities, Polities and Glocal Economies

    Edited by Veronika Hyden-Hanscho, Werner Stangl ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Penguin History Of Latin America

    New Edition

    by Edwin Williamson ...
    Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    by David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • This Gulf of Fire

    The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

    by Mark Molesky ...
    Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardFinalist: Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: Volume 1, Portugal

    From Beginnings to 1807

    by A. R. Disney ...
    The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • THE SPANISH LABYRINTH

    An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War

    by Gerald Brenan ...
    Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the war itself. Brenan—a middle class, liberal, Anglo-Irish expatriate who lived in Spain from 1919 until 1936, returning in 1953 — wrote comprehensively about the political and religious divisions in Spain ... Read more

    $6.71 USD

  • Charles V

    The World Emperor

    by Harald Kleinschmidt ...
    In his biography of Charles V Harald Kleidschmidt paints a vivid portrait of one of the most intriguing of the great European monarchs. ... Read more

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  • Once Within Borders

    Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

    by Charles S. Maier ...
    Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Latin America

    by Carlos Fuentes ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A passionate argument for the geopolitical autonomy of Latin America, Carlos Fuentes's 1984 CBC Massey lectures trace the region's unique historical and cultural tensions and call upon foreign powers to cease interference in a sphere of influence they rarely fully understand.Fuentes sees the turbulence in Latin America ending not with political solutions, but economic ones. Foreshadowing the end ... Read more

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  • The Silver Way

    China, Spanish America and the birth of globalisation 1565-1815: Penguin Specials

    by Peter Gordon, Juan Jose Morales ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Long before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalisation. The Ruta de la Plata or ’Silver Way’ catalysed economic and cultural exchange, built the foundations for the first global currency and led to the rise of the first ‘world city’. And yet, for all its importance, the Silver Way ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Racisms

    From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

    by Francisco Bethencourt ...
    " Racisms impresses the reader by its author's vast reading, his thoroughness and precision . . . intellectual ambition, and [its] visual and textual sources." —Peter Burke, University of CambridgeRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

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