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46 produkter
British Trade with Spanish America, 1763-1808
Häftad, 2014
578 kr
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In this erudite and comprehensive study Adrian Pearce offers a detailed survey of British trade with Spanish America in the latter half of the eighteenth century drawing together a variety of sources and looking at all aspects of commercial activity. The history and vicissitudes of the free port …
Argentina’s Partisan Past
Nationalism and the Politics of History
Häftad, 2014
564 kr
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Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive research of primary and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views …
Armies, Politics and Revolution
Chile, 1808–1826
Inbunden, 2014
2120 kr
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This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon in 1808 and ending immediately after the last royalist contingents were expelled from the island of Chiloé, it does not seek to give a full picture of …
Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfirian Mexico
A Reappraisal
Inbunden, 2016
2059 kr
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This innovative monograph is of major significance for not only students and academics undertaking research on the history of Mexico during the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, but also scholars specializing in the history of ideas, philosophy and science. Unlike previous discussions of …
Decadent Modernity
Civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920
Inbunden, 2018
2120 kr
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How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? By treating modernity as a ubiquitous category in which ideas of progress and decadence are far from being mutually exclusive, this book explores how different groups of intellectuals, between the late nineteenth and the early …
Borges, Desire, and Sex
Inbunden, 2018
983 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence. This emotionally overwhelming condition shaped …
Contacts, Collisions and Relationships
Britons and Chileans in the Independence era, 1806-1831
Inbunden, 2019
1041 kr
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This is a study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806–1831). These relations were characterised by a dynamic, unpredictable, and changing nature, imperialism being only one and not the exclusive way to define them. The book explores how …
Writing and the Revolution
Venezuelan Metafiction 2004-2012
Av Katie Brown
Inbunden, 2019
276 kr
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In contrast to recent theories of the ‘global’ Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and …
Borges, Desire, and Sex
Häftad, 2020
534 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence. This emotionally overwhelming condition shaped …
Marvels of Medicine
Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America
Inbunden, 2020
2368 kr
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Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but …
Literary Reimaginings of Argentina’s Independence
History, Fiction, Politics
Häftad, 2022
708 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the …
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile
Revisiting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer
Inbunden, 2021
2375 kr
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This book explores traditional and contemporary concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity in Chile through a textual analysis of historical novels depicting seventeenth-century figure, Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer. Drawing on theories from the Global North and South, it incorporates …
Positivism, Science and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico
A Reappraisal
Häftad, 2021
488 kr
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This innovative monograph is of major significance for not only students and academics undertaking research on the history of Mexico during the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, but also scholars specializing in the history of ideas, philosophy and science. Unlike previous discussions of …
Andean Truths
Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru
Häftad, 2021
556 kr
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Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru studies how literature, drama, film, and the visual arts contest the dominant narrative of national peace and reconciliation, as constructed by Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Established …
Armies, Politics and Revolution
Chile, 1808–1826
Häftad, 2021
556 kr
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This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon in 1808 and ending immediately after the last royalist contingents were expelled from the island of Chiloé, it does not seek to give a full picture of …
Writing and the Revolution
Venezuelan Metafiction 2004-2012
Av Katie Brown
Häftad, 2022
583 kr
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In contrast to recent theories of the ‘global’ Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and …
Argentine Cinema and National Identity (1966-1976)
Häftad, 2021
534 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, a period that has been understudied. This essential …
Decadent Modernity
Civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920
Häftad, 2021
522 kr
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How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? By treating modernity as a ubiquitous category in which ideas of progress and decadence are far from being mutually exclusive, this book explores how different groups of intellectuals, between the late nineteenth and the early …
Distortion and Subversion
Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011)
Häftad, 2023
672 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.At the turn of the 21st century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new social movement that demanded the universal right …
Contacts, Collisions and Relationships
Britons and Chileans in the Independence era, 1806-1831
Häftad, 2022
564 kr
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This is a study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806–1831). These relations were characterised by a dynamic, unpredictable, and changing nature, imperialism being only one and not the exclusive way to define them. The book explores how …
Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018)
The Only Thing That Unites Us
Inbunden, 2022
831 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project …
Women’s Club Football in Brazil and Colombia
A Critical Analysis of Players, Media and Institutions
Av Mark Biram
Inbunden, 2024
1810 kr
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The first women’s football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material that cuts through the clichés to uncover the lived reality of women footballers. It includes the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers’ views into dialogue …
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Identities in Chile
Revisiting Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer
Häftad, 2024
543 kr
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This book explores traditional and contemporary concerns surrounding gender and ethnicity in Chile through a textual analysis of historical novels depicting seventeenth-century figure, Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer. Drawing on theories from the Global North and South, it incorporates …
World Without Hunger
Josué de Castro and the History of Geography
Inbunden, 2023
522 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.Drawing on the rich personal archive of the geographer Josué de Castro, this book tells a new history of geography by following one …
Woodbine Parish Report on the Revolutions in South America (1822)
The Foreign Office and Early British Intelligence on Latin America
Inbunden, 2023
1864 kr
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This book presents the unpublished intelligence report “South America”, written in 1822 by Woodbine Parish, clerk at the Foreign Office, Castlereagh's private secretary and later the first British Consul to Buenos Aires. The document is transcribed, analysed and fully contextualised in order to …
City Against Empire
Transnational Anti-Imperialism in Mexico City, 1920-30
Inbunden, 2023
538 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.A City Against Empire is the history of the anti-imperialist movement in 1920s Mexico City. It combines intellectual, social, and …
Bergson in Mexican Literature and Film
A Century of the Mobile Aesthetic Image
Av Sheldon Penn
Inbunden, 2026
2377 kr
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This is the first book-length analysis of the influence of Henri Bergson’s philosophy in Mexican literature and film. Following the publication of Matter and Memory (1896) and Creative Evolution (1907), Bergson’s philosophy swept the world and was a touchstone for the voices of change during the …
Women’s Club Football in Brazil and Colombia
A Critical Analysis of Players, Media and Institutions
Av Mark Biram
Häftad, 2026
503 kr
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The first women’s football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material that cuts through the clichés to uncover the lived reality of women footballers. It includes the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers’ views into dialogue …
Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks
Rewriting the Tropics in the novela de la selva
Av Lesley Wylie
Häftad, 2026
528 kr
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The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty ‘savages’ in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing …
Coded Lyrics: The Poetics of Argentine Rock under Censorship and Beyond
Häftad, 2026
471 kr
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Coded Lyrics is the first comprehensive academic work dedicated to unraveling the lyrical intricacies of Argentine rock in the English language. This book redefines the narrative of rock history, shedding light on the distinctive journey undertaken by South American rock music amidst a unique set …
