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  • Venezuela Speaks!

    Voices from the Grassroots

    For the last decade, Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution” has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality, and unemployment have all dropped, while health, education, and living standards have seen a commensurate rise. The international mainstream media has focused predominantly on Venezuela’s controversial leader, President Hugo Chavez, who has routinely been in the headlines. But ... Leer más

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  • Brazil

    The Troubled Rise of a Global Power

    de Michael Reid ...
    Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its ... Leer más

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  • Capoeira

    Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

    Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very popular. Capoeira came to America around 1975, and has become widely recognized by dancers and martial artists. The author discusses capoeira's ... Leer más

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  • Story of a Death Foretold

    The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973

    On the fortieth anniversary of revolution and rebellion in Chile, a searching history of the rise and fall of the world's first and only democratically elected Marxist president.On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had been in the works for months, even years. Shortly after giving a farewell speech to his ... Leer más

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  • The Southern Tiger

    Chile's Fight for a Peaceful and Democratic Future

    Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing the dictator, the first of its kind. Revolution soon followed, as Chileans took to the streets to ... Leer más

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  • The Shining Path

    A History of the Millenarian War in Peru

    Traducido por Robin Kirk ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President Fernando Belaunde’s reluctant decision to send in the military to contain the growing rebellion in ... Leer más

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  • Rainforest Cowboys

    The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia

    Series series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    This ambitious interdisciplinary study is the first to examine the interlinked economic uses and cultural practices and beliefs surrounding cattle in Western Amazonia, where cattle raising is at the center of debates about economic development and environWinner, Brazil Section Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2016The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, ... Leer más

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  • The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

    Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today. ... Leer más

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  • Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree

    Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949

    Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican ... Leer más

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  • Conflict in the Early Americas

    An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests

    Edición de Rebecca M. Seaman ...
    This detailed study is the only reference work of its kind to address Spain's conquest of Central and South America, providing in-depth coverage of native and European ideologies, political motivations, and cultural practices of the region.As the study of world history evolves from a Eurocentric perspective to a more global viewpoint, formerly marginalized groups are now the focus of discussion, ... Leer más

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  • Shining and Other Paths

    War and Society in Peru, 1980-1995

    Edición de Steve J. Stern ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    Shining and Other Paths offers the first systematic account of the social experiences at the heart of the war waged between Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the 1980s and early 1990s. Confronting and untangling the many myths and enigmas that surround the war and the wider history of twentieth-century Peru, this book presents clear and often poignant analyses of the brutal reshaping ... Leer más

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  • Learning from Bogotá

    Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

    de Rachel Berney ...
    Once known as a “drug capital” and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed “the miracle of Bogotá.” Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become an unexpected model of urban development through the redesign and revitalization of the public realm—parks, ... Leer más

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