South America category: 2208 books
by Anna Kaminski, Nick Edwards, Shafik Meghji
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Discover this dazzling, diverse South American country with the liveliest and most comprehensive guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to sail around the glaciers of Patagonia or soak your bones in volcanic hot springs, taste wines in the picturesque Maule Valley or wonder at the mysterious Easter...
by Peter Krahenbuhl
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Welcome to the wildest place on earth! Ecuador's upper Amazon Basin, referred to locally as the Oriente, awaits you. Spanning most of the Sucumbíos Province, this region is unquestionably one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. Here, you can experience incredible wildlife viewing...
A Southern Moderate in Radical Times
Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, he explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hilliard...
by José Victorino Lastarria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture,...
The Closed Hand
Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese...
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution
Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Comprising six full-length chapters, a comprehensive Introduction and Conclusion, this monograph is extensive in scale and scope. It provides fresh readings of key writings of Mariátegui, one of Latin America’s most important and revolutionary political, cultural and aesthetic theorists, through...
Machu Picchu, Peru Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)
Machu Picchu, Peru Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
One of the great wonders of the world, the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru has a legacy extending back many generations. This UNESCO World Heritage site offers breathtaking views of the ethereal ruins. The ancient "City of the Incas" was constructed in the 15th century in the...
Blood of the Earth
Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. "Resource nationalism"—the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the "nation"—has often united otherwise disparate groups, including mineworkers,...
The United States and Brazil
A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades.
Monica Hirst considers economic relations between the two countries, presenting pertinent statistical information and detailing key economic policy disputes between the two governments (as well...
Colonial Habits
Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1999
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first decades...
For a Proper Home
Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows,...
Patagonia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Forming a vast triangle at the southern tip of South America, Patagonia is a landscape of barren steppes, soaring peaks, and fierce wind, inspiring generations of travelers and artists. From the empty plans to the crashing seas, from the giant dinosaur fossils to the massive glacial sculptures, Chris...
German Buenos Aires, 1900–1933
Social Change and Cultural Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This study of the German community of early twentieth-century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience. Beginning with the first wave of immigration in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the outbreak of World War...