Description: The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America.Pre...
Description: A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of ...
Author: Klein, Herbert S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, s...
Author: Bakewell, Peter Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The updated and enhanced third edition of A History of Latin America to 1825 presents a comprehensive narrative survey of Latin American history from the region's first human presence until the majori...
Author: Meade, Teresa A. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and European backgrounds from the onset of independence until...
Author: Chomsky, Aviva Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later. Balances a comprehensive ov...
Description: A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later. Balances a comprehensive ov...
Author: Barton, Jonathan R. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With case studies of South and Central America, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, "A Political Geography of Latin America" explains how it is possible to overcome the stereotypes and generalizat...
Description: This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Ind...
Author: Collier, Simon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chile enjoyed unique prestige among the Spanish American republics of the nineteenth century for its stable and increasingly liberal political tradition. How did this unusual story unfold? The traditi...
Author: Aghajanian, Alfred Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The volume describes the Chinampa Agricultural System, its history and its role in Aztec empire-building. It contains a chapter on the history of Aztecs and the Valley of Mexico, and concludes that th...
Author: Droubay, Melvin S. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brian Stephens, an American graduate student working in Guatemala, eventually becomes a contractor to the U.S. Government and later to the Guatemalan government. He sees, on a field trip into the coun...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 42. This is a new print-on-demand hardback e...
Author: Hanks, William F. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraord...
Author: Snodgrass, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first comprehensive history of labor relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, coloniza...
Author: Hart, John Mason Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two...
Author: Faber, Sebastiaan Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Places the exiles' ideological evolution in a broad historical context and takes into account developments in both Spanish and Mexican politics from the early 1930s through the 1970s.
Author: Prather, Richard S. Publisher: EReads.com Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The author of many critically acclaimed books, military historian T.R. Fehrenbach provides the reader with this exciting and timely history of the territory that is today known as Mexico. His book swe...
Author: Lemoine, Patrick Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fort-Dimanche, Dungeon of Death is a vivid testimony of the most horrendous kind of mental and physical cruelties that we can inflict on our fellow men. Patrick Lemoine's harrowing tale about his year...
Description: What is Latin America, after all? While histories of the "other" Americas often link disparate histories through revolutionary or tragic narratives, Latin America since Independence begins with the as...
Author: Black, Jan Knippers Publisher: Westview Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Now in a fifth edition, Latin America has been updated to reflect the region's growing optimism as economies stabilize, trade diversifies, and political systems become more participatory. This multidi...
Author: Bourne, Richard Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope and excitement to Brazil-and the world. This compelling work i...
Author: Nash, June C. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion...
Author: Fregoso, Rosa Linda Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape...
Author: Levy, Daniel C. / Bruhn, Kathleen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This engaging book provides a broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's contemporary struggle for democratic development. Now completely revised, it brings up to date issues ranging from electoral ref...
Author: Bowden, Charles Publisher: Nation Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the award-winning, critically acclaimed Charles Bowden, a stunning work of reportage on Ciudad Juárez-the blood-soaked town caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's escalating drug wars
Author: Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Publisher: pubOne.info Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The first of these volumes forms a history of the consolidation of Chilian independence, and of the subsequent liberation of Peru through the instrumentality of the Chilian squadron under my command; ...
Author: Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Publisher: pubOne.info Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: BRAZILIAN AND PORTUGUESE FACTIONS DON PEDEO ORDERED TO QUIT BRAZIL APPOINTED «PERPETUAL PROTECTOR» PROCLAIMED EMPEROR OF BRAZIL EFFORTS TO OBTAIN FOREIGN OFFICERS AND SEAMEN THE NAVAL COMMAND OFFERE...
Author: Rodrguez, Flix V. Matos / Stephen, Lynn / Zavella, Patricia Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of ‘Latin America’ an...
Author: Bley, Bonnie Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Discover the ancient Maya civilization and one of their most popular toured ancient ruined cities of Tulum, Mexico in this detailed guidebook. Th e Ancient Maya and Th eir City of Tulum: Uncovering th...
Author: Braun, Herbert Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Most Colombians regard Jorge Eliecer Gaitan as a pivotal figure in their nation's history, whose assassination on April 9, 1948 irrevocably changed the course of events in the twentieth century. . ....
Author: Rochester, Julie Publisher: Vision Paperbacks Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Just after midnight, in the early morning of 23 July 1993, a group of men, later identified as off-duty policemen, opened fire on a group of street children sleeping rough outside one of Rio de Janeir...
Author: Shepherd, William R. Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A highly informative work that dwells on the history of America and influences from the southern neighbours. Shepherd analyzes the history very closely and gives conclusion based on chronologically ex...
Author: Russell, Philip Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 ...
Author: Prescott, William H. Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A recognized Latin American history masterpiece "The History of the Conquest of Peru" offers an authoritative vision of Pizarro's turbulent defeat of the Inca Empire. Overflowing with spectacle, every...
Author: Buchenau, Jürgen Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America.Features ...
