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The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance expressions as intangible cultural heritage. Using...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The overseas enterprises of Spain expanded dramatically following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492.The Spanish had already conquered the Canary Islands, which served as a base for the later conquest of lands in the Americas (known as the Indies) that...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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„Burmeister habe die Republik Argentinien wissenschaftlich urbanisiert“. Diese Aussage tätigte der argentinische Innenminister Joaquín Victor Gonzáles auf dem 17. Amerika-Kongress im Mai 1910 in Buenos Aires. Von dieser Aussage abgeleitet,...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-03-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance explores the vibrant history of Canto Nuevo, a musical and cultural movement that influencedMexican music, politics, and culture from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Author Claudio Palomares-Salas delves into every...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-02-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.
In 1768, the British...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-11-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2024-05-21
Format(s) : ePub
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Dieses Buch zelebriert die lebendige und dynamische Kunst und Kultur der Dominikanischen Republik. Diese reiche künstlerische Tradition zeichnet sich durch ihre lebhaften Farben, kühnen Muster und wirbelnden Formen aus, die den lebendigen Geist und das vielfältige...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-05-17
Format(s) : ePub
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This book celebrates the vibrant and dynamic art and culture of the Dominican Republic.This rich artistic tradition is characterized by its vivid colors, bold patterns, and swirling forms, reflecting the island's lively spirit and diverse cultural heritage. Dominican...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-05-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Like so many other cities of South America, Rio is an urban sprawl containing some truly stunning contrasts. Yet Rio comes alive, really, for only two things – soccer and the samba. According to tradition, founded by the Portuguese navigator André Gonçalves on 1 January...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-05-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Es gibt keine schönere Stadt und kaum eine unergründlichere und unübersichtlichere. Man wird mit ihr nicht fertig. Das hat einst Stefan Zweig über Rio de Janeiro gesagt, diesen 12-Millionen-Hexenkessel mit dem berühmten Zuckerhut und der weltberühmten Copacabana. Doch...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-05-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Explore the forces and movements shaping contemporary Mexican politics and society In Mexico’s Unscripted Revolutions: Political and Social Change Since 1958, distinguished historian Stephen Lewis offers a well-argued—and provocative—presentation of Mexico’s recent...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2024-02-09
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines patterns of behavior during an era of mass brutality by analyzing, in a transnational context, mechanisms of violence and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. The main goal is to incorporate these conflicts into the broader discussion of...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2023-11-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Explores the modern history of Latin America using an intersectional approach, newly revised and updated. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition offers a lively account of the rich political, cultural, and social history of the independent...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2022-07-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Learn about the first time in history that people of color overthrew a European colonial regime to establish an independent country Describing the only successful slave revolt in world history, the newly revised Second Edition of A Concise History of the Haitian...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2021-09-08
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Delight in the cultural aspects of Latin America by observing the objects that give life to history Latin American Cultural Objects and Episodes provides readers with an eclectic and fascinating exploration of Latin American history through the examination of physical...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2020-12-01
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Rise and Fall of an Empire: A Progressive Caribbean emphasizes the significance of literature, media, history, slavery, culture and ideology which helped shape the Caribbean. This interdisciplinary work includes lesser known events, individuals and organizations that...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2020-07-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-10-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence.Violence, in fact, is whatSpain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture and identity, far...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2019-10-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Since 2011 over 5.6 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and beyond, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced. The contemporary flight of Syrian refugees comes one century after the region's formative experience with massive upheaval,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Chile-Mission der Menzinger Schwestern vom Heiligen Kreuz Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. In der Mission konnten sie in Bereichen agieren, die in Europa normalerweise Frauen unzugänglich waren und legitimierten diesen erweiterten...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2018-10-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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