Latin category: 3540 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors,...
Latin Verb Conjugator
The most common verbs fully conjugated
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Fluo's Latin Verb Conjugator is a hands-on verb conjugation book, suitable for every learner of Latin.
If you're tired of endless verb conjugation tables that mostly confuse rather than help you learn conjugating verbs, this book will actually teach you how to conjugate: around 400 of the most...
Writing in the Air
Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work...
Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Strong, colorful personalities who impose their will upon laws, constitutions, courts, and congresses are an enduring feature of Latin American politics, beginning with the violent regional bosses (caudillos) of the early nineteenth century and continuing with the 'hyper-presidential' systems of today....
Revolution and Revolutionaries
Guerrilla Movements in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Few publications cover the full span of the history of revolutionary movements in Latin America. In Revolution and Revolutionaries, editor Daniel Castro examines all aspects of guerrilla warfare-from revolutionary programs to the repressive tactics used by various governments to rid themselves of...
by Lawrence A. Clayton, Michael L. Conniff, Susan M. Gauss
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include...
A Century of Revolution
Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century...
by John Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how...
Mothers Making Latin America
Gender, Households, and Politics Since 1825
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from—or unimportant to—central developments in Latin American history since independence.
Presents nuanced issues in gender historiography for Latin...
by Joseph Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
From the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the Reagan Doctrine of the 1980s, the United States has presumed a position of political leadership and pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere. This has been made possible by two main factors: America's huge economy, which has made the U.S. the...
Latin America
Development and Conflict since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Bringing the story up-to-date, this expanded new edition takes into account recent developments including Argentina's 2001 debt default and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil. Latin America provides an introduction to the economic and political history of the region in the last half century.
Beginning...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This important 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
What factors are responsible for varying levels of infrastructure investment and development across Latin America? Deficiencies in economic infrastructure—broadly classified...
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This study, now in a revised and updated third edition, covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American countries while recognizing the external influences to which the whole region has been subject. Victor...