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  • Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Glück

    Gegen die Zerstörung unserer Glücksfähigkeit in der frühen Kindheit

    by Jean Liedloff ...
    Translated by Eva Schlottmann, Rainer Taëni ...
    Series Book 224 - Beck Paperback
    Die Autorin, die mehrere Jahre bei den Yequana-Indianern im Dschungel Venezuelas gelebt hat, schildert eindrucksvoll deren harmonisches, glückliches Zusammenleben und entdeckt seine Wurzeln im Umgang dieser Menschen mit ihren Kindern: Sie zeigt, dass dort noch ein bei uns längst verschüttetes natürliches Wissen um die ursprünglichen Bedürfnisse von Kleinkindern existiert, das wir erst neu zu ... Read more

    $10.28 USD

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  • The Last Kilo

    Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America

    by T. J. English ...
    From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the cocaine business. It was corruption: the dirty cops, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Narcoball

    Love, Death and Football in Escobar's Colombia

    Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football.Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Colombian football during the early 1990s - shaped by drug lords, rivalries, and ambition. It uncovers a football empire backed by cartels - where victory was a currency of its own, and defeat, a matter of life and death.This is a different story of Pablo Escobar and his rivals. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Explorers

    A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

    A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny.The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel ... Read more

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  • Explorers Dreamers and Thieves

    Latin American Writers in the British Museum

    Edited by Carolina Orloff ...
    Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves is an adventure through memory and archives.This book is an exercise in invention that emerges from the complex history of encounter between Europe and the Americas. Following the success of Untold Microcosms – which saw ten Latin American authors write stories inspired by objects from their countries held by the British Museum – the curatorial team at the Museum ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Women's Suffrage in the Americas

    Edited by Stephanie Mitchell ...
    The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the Americas pushes back against the misconception that women's movements originated in the United States. The volume brings Latin American voices to the forefront of English-language scholarship. Suffragists across the hemisphere worked together, formed collegial networks to support each ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Het geheime netwerk dat Josef Mengele liet verdwijnen

    Het waargebeurde verhaal van de meestgezochte nazi-arts ter wereld, die bijna 30 jaar anoniem in Zuid-Amerika leefde

    by Betina Anton ...
    Translated by Kitty Pouwels ...
    São Paulo, 1985. Betina Anton is zes jaar als haar kleuterjuf van de ene op de andere dag ontslagen wordt en uit haar leven verdwijnt. Juf Liselotte bleek goed bevriend te zijn geweest met Josef Mengele. Met een klein groepje gelijkgestemden had zij de kamparts van Auschwitz, berucht om zijn medische experimenten, geholpen om in Brazilië in het geheim een nieuw leven op te bouwen. Mengele werd ... Read more

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  • The Sandinista Revolution

    A Global Latin American History

    Series series New Cold War History
    The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past.Mateo Jarquin recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin ... Read more

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  • Puerto Rico

    A National History

    A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago’s people while offering a lens ... Read more

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  • Exploring Iberian Counterpoints in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Pacific

    Through a number of significant case studies, this volume examines changing Iberian dynamics in the Pacific, bridging the gaps between English and Spanish speaking scholarship to highlight understudied actors and debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The book shifts the predominant emphasis on Anglo-American studies and the historical neglect of Iberian endeavors in this ocean by ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Soldado por circunstancia

    Guillermo Parvex vuelve a su mejor registro en una envolvente y vertiginosa novela sobre el asalto al Morro de Arica.En Soldado por circunstancia, Guillermo Parvex nos sumerge en el fascinante relato del profesor Benjamín Valdés, cuya pacífica vida se ve bruscamente interrumpida por un llamado a integrarse a las filas chilenas durante la Guerra del Pacífico. Contra su voluntad, pero imbuido de un ... Read more

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  • Dependency and Development in Latin America

    At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of political and economic dependence for a new kind of dependency on the international capitalism of multinational corporations. In the much-acclaimed original Spanish edition (Dependencia y Desarrollo en ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Tecituras das Cidades - História, Memória e Independências

    Este volume da série "Tecituras das Cidades" trata de uma das efemérides mais controversas sobre a historiogra¬fia latino-americana, isso porque abordar nossas "independências" não é algo simples nem consensual. É uma obra coletiva produzida por pesquisadores do Núcleo de Estudos de História Social da Cidade (NEHSC da PUC-SP) e seus convidados, que são estudiosos de renomadas Instituições de ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ORURO

    IV Siglos En La Eternidad 1606-2006

    Oruro: "IV SIGLOS EN LA ETERNIDAD". Breve visión multifacética de un departamento de Bolivia enclavado en el altiplano de los Andes. Además de valorar los aportes civilizatorios y culturales de la prístina cultura milenaria en Sudamérica, incide en su historia de los últimos cuatrocientos años, en su vida colonial y republicana, desde su fundación como Villa (1606), hasta el nacimiento del Estado ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Californios

    The Heroic Deed Of The Sonoran Basques

    This historical novel is the work of Carlos Peralta Dávila, a lawyer from Hermosillo and a dear friend of over 40 years.The Californios tells the story of a character born in 1759 in Tubac, Arizona, who was part of colonial Sonora. Luis María Peralta Valenzuela was a decorated military man known for his loyalty, discipline, integrity, and bravery. He was part of the famous 'Spanish leather dragons ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

    Volume I: Romanticism and Revolutions

    Edited by Marisa Palacios Knox ...
    The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Histories of Perplexity

    Colombia, 1970s-2010s

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Histories of Solitude

    Colombia, 1820s-1970s

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

    Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America.Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • El ídolo y las hogueras

    idolatría y evangelización en América virreinal, siglos XVI-XVIII

    Series Book 90 - Tiempo emulado. Historia de América y España
    ¿Por qué los españoles calificaron como idolatría a las religiones y creencias de los indios americanos? ¿Qué consecuencias sociales, culturales y humanas tuvo esto? Para la Corona española, la conquista de los territorios americanos se justificaba en la medida en que se autoconcebían como los portadores y defensores de la religión verdadera. Para algunos sectores de aquella sociedad, que iba "a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhum des Caraïbes

    by Maison Galion ...
    Plongez dans l'univers fascinant du rhum avec "L'Art de Créer des Liqueurs de Rhum à la Maison", votre guide complet pour explorer les traditions, les techniques et les saveurs de ce spiritueux emblématique des Caraïbes. Des champs de canne à sucre baignés de soleil aux distilleries ancestrales, ce voyage sensoriel vous emmène au cœur de l'artisanat du rhum, dévoilant les secrets de sa fabrication ... Read more

    $7.76 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Misplaced Ideas?

    Political-Intellectual History in Latin America

    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Is there a Latin American thought? What distinguishes it from the thought of other regions, particularly from European thought? What are its main expressions in political, cultural, and social life? How has it evolved historically? As the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea Aguilar stated: "hardly any other society has so zealously sought for the features of its own identity." In Misplaced Ideas?, El ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Pearls for the Crown

    Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

    In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized hierarchies and inequitable notions about humanity and nature that still hold sway today.When Christopher Columbus encountered pristine pearl beds in southern Caribbean waters in 1498, he procured the first source of New World wealth for ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The History of Art in Latin America

    The pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca encompass a rich tapestry of artistic traditions that flourished across the Americas long before the arrival of European explorers. Spanning vast geographical regions and diverse cultural landscapes, these civilizations left behind a legacy of magnificent art and artifacts that offer insights into their complex societies, spiritual ... Read more

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