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  • Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico

    by Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban ...
    Translated by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Sergio Rivera-Ayala ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The eighteenth century in New Spain witnessed major changes: among these, one of the most significant was the adoption of French customs among the upper groups of society in response to the spreading ideas of the Enlightenment. In addition, New Spain's economy and culture were also changing radically. The spread of these French-inspired ideas and customs soon reached the rest of urban society. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • A Concise History of Bolivia

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Darker Side of Western Modernity

    Global Futures, Decolonial Options

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations
    During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Early Brazil

    A Documentary Collection to 1700

    Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz ...
    Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous peoples, Portuguese, and Africans in the formation of the first extensive plantation colony based ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Book of Salsa

    A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City

    Translated by Frances R. Aparicio, Jackie White ...
    by César Miguel Rondón ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music — and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production — was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy César ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Che on My Mind

    by Margaret Randall ...
    Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che] lived. I was part of that world, and it remains a part of me." Randall participated in the Mexican student movement of 1968 and eventually was forced ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Sounds of Belonging

    U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy

    by Dolores Ines Casillas ...
    Series Book 33 - Critical Cultural Communication
    How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration.**Winner, Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher EducationHonorable Mention for the 2015 Latino Studies Best Book presented by the Latin American Studies Association**Thelast two decades have produced continued Latino ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889

    by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein ...
    This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have defined modern Brazilian society and economy. In this period Brazil moved from being a mostly rural ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Riots in the Cities

    Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America 1765-1910

    Edited by Servando Ortoll, Silvia M. Arrom ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual political power wielded by the underprivileged city dwellers before the twentieth century has received little scholarly attention or has been downplayed. Researchers often described urban ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Breaking into the Global Market

    Edited by Deborah Shaw ...
    This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Indian Conquistadors

    Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica

    Edited by Laura E. Matthew, Michel R. Oudijk ...
    The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the role of native peoples as active agents in the Conquest through a review of new sources and more careful analysis of known but under-studied materials that demonstrate the overwhelming importance of native allies in both ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD