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  • Demanding a Radical Constitution

    Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participation in Chile’s 2022 Reform Efforts

    This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew on decades of diverse environmental, political, Indigenous, and community organizing and contained concepts and goals at the ... Read more

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  • Cuentos de La Selva

    Cuentos de la Selva is a captivating collection of short stories by Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, first published in 1918. Written originally for children yet rich enough to engage readers of all ages, these tales transport us deep into the vibrant, mysterious world of the South American rainforest—a setting that pulses with life, danger, wonder, and wisdom. Drawing inspiration from his years ... Read more

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  • The People’s Dictator

    The Life of General Primo de Rivera

    Series series Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain
    This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era.Following new historiographical trends, this book combines biographical experiences of the dictator with a sociopolitical reading of the dictatorship to reflect on the configuration of national, ... Read more

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  • Penn Statements, Vol. 41

    Student Compositions from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

    Penn Statements Volume 41 collects student compositions from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University for use in English 15, Rhetoric and Composition courses at Penn State. ... Read more

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  • The Exiles and Other Stories

    Translated by J. David Danielson ...
    Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony. These are the stories of the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, here presented in an important compilation of thirteen of his most ... Read more

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  • Chicken Slaughter: Selected Stories of Horacio Quiroga

    Discover the haunting and unforgettable short stories of Horacio Quiroga in this definitive English anthology. Dive into the lush and perilous world of the South American jungle as Quiroga, a master of the short story form, weaves tales of man's struggles against nature and his own inner demons.This carefully curated collection showcases the best of Quiroga's dark and psychological fiction, ... Read more

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  • Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte

    Series Book 4 - Biblioteca de Literatura Hispanoamericana
    Constituye la obra cumbre del autor, en las breves y apasionantes historias que componen el libro, la intriga, el drama y el misterio se desbordan y nos invaden. Quiroga es aquí consagrado como uno de los mejores cuentistas de todos los tiempos. ... Read more

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  • What If? / ¿Y si...?

    Counterfactual Approaches to Imperial and Byzantine Literature / Enfoques contrafactuales en la literatura imperial y bizantina

    This volume explores counterfactual episodes (“what would have happened if…?”) in the literature of the Roman Empire in the Imperial, Late Antique, and Byzantine periods. In the first study of its kind, the authors engage with writers including Plutarch, the emperor Julian and Nonnus of Panopolis to understand how they imagined alternative pasts and futures. A landmark new edited collection, it ... Read more

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  • South American Jungle Tales

    Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was an Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, use the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magic ... Read more

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  • Cuentos de Amor, de Locura y de Muerte

    First published in 1917, Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte stands as one of the most powerful and unsettling collections in Latin American literature. In these unforgettable stories, Horacio Quiroga explores the fragile boundaries between passion and obsession, reason and madness, life and death—revealing the darker currents that flow beneath everyday existence. Set largely in the wild ... Read more

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  • Ways of Seeing International Organisations

    New Perspectives for International Institutional Law

    Series series LSE International Studies
    For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional law'- has been marked by an intellectual quietism. Most of the scholarship tends to focus narrowly on providing 'legal' answers to 'legal' questions. For that reason, perspectives rarely engage with the insights of critical traditions of legal thought ... Read more

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  • Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America

    Negotiating Status through Religious Practices

    Series series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
    Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities –or lay Catholic brotherhoods– founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to ... Read more

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