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Dance for Me When I Die
Häftad, 2019
348 kr
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On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old VÍctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires's shantytowns for his success as a …
Contemporary History of Latin America
Av Tulio Halperin Donghi, John Charles Chasteen
Häftad, 1993
626 kr
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For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperin Donghi's Historia Contemporanea de America Latina has been the most influential and widely read general history of Latin America in the Spanish-speaking world. Unparalleled in scope, attentive to the paradoxes of Latin American reality, and known for its …
Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom
Av Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom
Häftad, 1999
251 kr
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Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named RamÓn PanÉ. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn …
Shining Path
A History of the Millenarian War in Peru
Häftad, 1999
703 kr
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First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing account, it covers the dramatic years between the guerrillas' opening attack in 1980 and President …
Mystery of Samba
Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
Av Hermano Vianna, John Charles Chasteen
Häftad, 1999
515 kr
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Samba is Brazil's ""national rhythm"", the symbol of its culture and nationhood. It symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become ""the Kingdom of Samba"" only a few decades …
To Be a Worker
Identity and Politics in Peru
Av Jorge Parodi, Catherine Conaghan
Häftad, 2000
515 kr
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A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and …
Vanquished
A Novel
Häftad, 2002
575 kr
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Originally published in Puerto Rico in 1956 as Los derrotados, Cesar Andreu Iglesias's novel about a fateful Nationalist assault on a U.S. military installation in Puerto Rico is now available for the first time in English. This tautly written story uncovers the personal histories of three …
Corn and Capitalism
How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
Häftad, 2003
631 kr
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Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy. The book, first published in Mexico in 1988, combines approaches from anthropology, …
Death Is a Festival
Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Häftad, 2003
631 kr
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This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the …
Incomplete Democracy
Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America
Häftad, 2003
613 kr
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One of Latin America's leading sociologists, Manuel Antonio Garreton explores contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America in this work originally published in Spanish in 1995. He pays particular attention to the example of Chile, analyzing the country's return to democracy and its …
Imagined Island
History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola
Häftad, 2005
471 kr
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National identity in Haiti and the Dominican Republic In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of …
Book of Salsa
A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Häftad, 2008
428 kr
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This book provides the authoritative history of salsa.Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive chronicle of the music - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, …
Brazil
A Century of Change
Av Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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Brazil is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of life, history, and culture and offers insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The essayists, most …
Nagô Grandma and White Papa
Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Häftad, 2009
458 kr
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This is a landmark work in African diaspora studies, in English for the first time. ""Nago Grandma and White Papa"" is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas' historioethnographic study …
Santa
A Novel of Mexico City
Av Federico Gamboa, John Charles Chasteen
Häftad, 2010
526 kr
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This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico …
Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning …
Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
A Documentary History
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival …
Book of Salsa
A Chronicle of Urban Music from the Caribbean to New York City
Av César Miguel Rondon, Frances R. Aparicio m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
674 kr
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Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish. …
Repression, Exile, and Democracy
Uruguayan Culture
Av Saul Sosnowski, Louise B. Popkin
Häftad, 1992
563 kr
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Repression, Exile, and Democracy, translated from the Spanish, is the first work to examine the impact of dictatorship on Uruguyan culture. Some of Uruguay's best-known poets, writers of fiction, playwrights, literary critics and social scientists participate in this multidisciplinary study, …
Signs of Borges
Inbunden, 1993
957 kr
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Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning …
Artificial Respiration
Häftad, 1994
329 kr
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Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in Argentina in 1981, it was written at a time when thousands of Argentine citizens "disappeared" during …
Signs of Borges
Häftad, 1993
377 kr
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Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning …
Lettered City
Av Angel Rama
Inbunden, 1996
1157 kr
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Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America’s most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama’s groundbreaking study-presented here in its first English translation-provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical …
Lettered City
Av Angel Rama
Häftad, 1996
266 kr
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Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America’s most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama’s groundbreaking study-presented here in its first English translation-provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical …
Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Häftad, 1999
631 kr
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Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de LeÓn vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. …
Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples
Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands
Häftad, 2001
294 kr
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Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great “Ocean …
Noé Jitrik Reader
Selected Essays on Latin American Literature
Av Noe Jitrik, Daniel Balderston
Häftad, 2005
647 kr
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The Argentine scholar NoÉ Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling …
Between Legitimacy and Violence
A History of Colombia, 1875–2002
Häftad, 2006
323 kr
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Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia’s “long twentieth century,” from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. Marco Palacios, a leading Latin American historian, skillfully blends political, …
Initials of the Earth
Av Jesús Díaz
Häftad, 2006
505 kr
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Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker JesÚs DÍaz. Born in Havana in 1941, DÍaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 …
Twenty Theses on Politics
Häftad, 2008
508 kr
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First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America’s-and the world’s-most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work in …
