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When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. Just over a century earlier, military campaigns began to extend power across a broad swath of the Andean region, bringing local societies into new relationships...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-04-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and entertain' Morning StarThe internationally acclaimed last work by the...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2018-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-12-01
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Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and competing political actors in an era of intense imperial competition, war, and the breakdown of the Spanish empire.
Mónica Ricketts examines the rise of men of letters and military officers...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-07-14
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Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-06-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are intertwined. Mexico has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-06-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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One day, as she enters her local supermarket, Laura Romero has a startling encounter with a beggar, who seems to offer her a child. A short while later, in the middle of the night, she discovers a mysterious young boy on the pavement outside her apartment building:...
Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2017-05-18
Format(s) : ePub
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A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez.
For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2017-05-17
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Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-01-25
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From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chávez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country. His and other Peruvian pilots' achievements generated...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-09-05
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'ABSORBING' Guardian'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman'EPIC' Evening Standard'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times'MAGISTERIAL' Irish ExaminerFully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidAlfredo Di...
Editeur : Seven Dials
Parution : 2016-08-11
Format(s) : ePub
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The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion pictureThe Lost City of Z.The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. In 1925, Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2016-07-28
Format(s) : ePub
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A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day. Engages in debates...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-01-21
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and entertaining character of the original, presenting a vivid account of...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-12-11
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The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-11-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A fascinating history of the Maya - drawing on a wealth of recent archaeological discoveries - whose civilisation in the jungles of Central America was for almost a thousand years hidden from the world.Over the last two centuries explorers have made the most remarkable...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2015-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
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Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-11-02
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In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government. Bearing aloft the banners of Christ the King and the Virgin of Guadalupe, they equipped themselves not only with guns, but also with scapulars, rosaries, prayers, and religious...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-07-30
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Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-04-02
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José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-03-26
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