Ivan Rojas: 2 books
by Ivan Rojas
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In 2012, Kazakhstan shocked the weightlifting world by winning four Gold medals at the London Olympics. Kazakhstan had competed as an independent country at the Olympics since 1996. Before the 2008 Olympics, Kazakhstan had never won gold in weightlifting. The secrets of Kazakhstan’s success lie...
Syncing the Americas
José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...