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  • Letters from Mexico

    by Hernan Cortes ...
    Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Romoleto: Un Emigrante En Venezuela

    Jos Luis Torres naci en Ibdes, provincia de Zaragoza, Espaa, en el tiempo de la Repblica. El destino lo llev a Venezuela, donde vivi en Sanare, un pueblecito de las montaas del Estado de Lara, y fund el colegio Santa Rosa de Lima. Pocos aos despus se trasladado al Pao, donde se encuentran las minas de hierro y convivi exitosamente con gentes de todas las nacionalidades, religiones, ideas polticas ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Nobles, esclavos, laboríos y macehuales: Los nuevos súbditos indianos del rey

    Series Book 8 - México 500
    La conquista y colonización de Mesoamérica planteó a los españoles el desafío de comprender y gobernar una sociedad nativa muy compleja y diversa. Al mismo tiempo los diferentes grupos que la conformaban debieron afrontar la necesidad de adaptarse a un gobierno y a la presencia de colonizadores cuyas intenciones y propósitos no comprendían del todo.Fueron años difíciles porque los violentos ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S EPOCH

    Christopher Columbus, the explorer credited with the European discovery of Puerto Rico.Juan Ponce de León, Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain, was the first governor of Puerto Rico. His grandson Juan Ponce de LeonII was the first indigenous governor of Puerto Rico.On September 24, 1493, Christopher Columbus set sail on his second voyage with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 soldiers from Cádiz.On ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World

    Edited by Lawrence Aje, Nicolas Gachon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
    Traces and Memories deals with the foundation, mechanisms and scope of slavery-related memorial processes, interrogating how descendants of enslaved populations reconstruct the history of their ancestors when transatlantic slavery is one of the variables of the memorial process. While memory studies mark a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, the book seeks to ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Our Elders Teach Us

    Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves.Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research to construct a history of the last 130 years in Guatemala from the perspective of present-day Mayan people. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Die Yaqui

    Indigener Widerstand und ein vergessener Völkermord

    Paco Ignacio Taibo II zeichnet in diesem Buch ein umfassendes Porträt der Yaqui, ihrer Geschichte und Kultur und schildert den 42 Jahre währenden bewaffneten Kampf der indigenen Guerilla-Einheiten um Land und Freiheit gegen den Zugriff der mexikanischen Regierung. Mit der Rekonstruktion ihrer Geschichte hebt er darüber hinaus einen vergessenen Genozid ins Bewusstsein. Seine engagierte Recherche ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution and Beyond

    An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, including widespread democratization and the rise of the "Pink Tide."Fidel Castro's ascent to power and the revolution he carried out in Cuba not only catalyzed a wave of revolutionary activity; it also set off a wave of reaction that led to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Historia de las logias masónicas de Costa Rica (siglos XIX, XX y XXI)

    (siglos XIX, XX y XXI)

    Series Book 12 - Nueva Biblioteca Patria
    Desde su pionera creación en 1865 por el Presb. Francisco C. Calvo, la Masonería ha desempeñado una ostensible y preponderante impronta en distintos derroteros históricos, jurídicos y políticos de Costa Rica, los cuales, precisamente, han sido protagonizados por múltiples personajes adscritos a dicha entidad intelectiva, entre los que se encuentran presidentes de la República, ministros, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parientes en venta

    La esclavitud en la colonia

    by Tatiana Lobo ...
    Las historias seleccionadas en este libro describen cómo funcionó el sistema esclavista africano en Costa Rica, contado por sus propias víctimas. Hubo particularidades porque no fue igual la vida de los esclavos y sus amos en los ingenios azucareros de Cuba o en las plantaciones de algodón de Estados Unidos, que en Costa Rica donde el cacao ocupaba muy poca mano de obra, razón por la cual la ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hospício de Pedro II

    Trechos selecionados de O Rio de Janeiro

    Series series MiniPops
    "Já passou o tempo em que ninguém se atrevia a entrar em um hospital de doidos, receoso de penetrar em enxovias, em gaiolas de ferro, onde eram encarcerados os míseros, como se fossem feras." Retrato humano sensível e detalhado, este texto de Moreira de Azevedo, sobre a fundação do primeiro centro especializado em doenças mentais do Brasil, que deu primeiro passo para a humanização no tratamento ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Epistolario de José María Mosquera y Figueroa

    Series series Cartas del sur
    Entre la colección de documentos del archivo Arroyo, que fueron propiedad del doctor David Mejía Velilla antes de su donación a la Universidad de La Sabana, se encuentra un epistolario de José María Mosquera y Figueroa, conformado por noventa cartas de este payanés ilustre, fechadas entre los años 1808 y 1828.Están dirigidas a parientes, amigos y conocidos, y nos permiten apreciar detalles de esta ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Varieties of Liberalism in Central America

    Nation-States as Works in Progress

    Why do some countries progress while others stagnate? Why does adversity strengthen some countries and weaken others? Indeed, in this era of unprecedented movement of people, goods, and ideas, just what constitutes a nation-state? Forrest Colburn and Arturo Cruz suggest how fundamental these questions are through an exploration of the evolution of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Counterfeit Politics

    Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas

    by David Kelman ...
    In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the “paranoid style” from the “proper” domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politics, why do these narratives continue to haunt political life? Counterfeit Politics accounts for the seemingly ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Dicionário De Mitologia Maia E Asteca

    by Lenin Soares ...
    Os povos da América, antes da invasão europeia, eram grandes civilizações que deixaram um imenso legado para a história do mundo, contudo, esse conhecimento tem sido pouco pesquisado e ainda menos divulgado especialmente aqui no Brasil. Este livro tenta apresentar a mitologia dos povos maias e astecas numa primeira tentativa de divulgação destes mitos e da história dos povos americanos anteriores ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Harvesting Change

    Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990

    One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor. But its attempts to promote balanced economic development and redistribute agricultural resources created labor shortages that threatened the country's economic lifeline. New employment opportunities created through agrarian reform upset the delicate balance developed in pre ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Quando il Diavolo ci mette la coda

    Fatti, fattacci e di tutto un po’ al ritmo di samba e bossa nova

    In “Quando il Diavolo ci mette la coda... fatti, fattacci e di tutto un po’ al ritmo di samba e bossa-nova” l’autore ha voluto descrivere gli eventi accaduti ad uno dei protagonisti, oltre che a quelli del Brasile, a partire dall’anno 1950. Felice Colombo, questo è il nome del personaggio in questione, giunge in America Latina alla vigilia di un incerto periodo Storico e Politico del dopo guerra ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions

    Series series LLILAS New Interpretations of Latin America Series
    “This book began in what seemed like a counterfactual intuition . . . that what had been happening in Nicaraguan poetry was essential to the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution,” write John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. “In our own postmodern North American culture, we are long past thinking of literature as mattering much at all in the ‘real’ world, so how could this be?” This study sets out to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cycle de Bas-de-cuir

    Chaque homme est plus ou moins le jouet du hasard, et je ne sache pas que les auteurs soient nullement exempts de cette influence humiliante. Voici le troisième de mes romans[2], et il dépend de deux conditions incertaines que ce soit le dernier : l’une est l’opinion publique, et l’autre mon propre caprice. J’écrivis mon premier livre parce qu’on m’avait dit que je ne pourrais composer un livre ... Read more

    $2.21 USD

  • La prosa de la contra-insurgencia

    'Lo político' durante la restauración neoliberal en Nicaragua

    Series series Literatura y Cultura
    La prosa de la contrainsurgencia replantea el problema de lo politico y presta atencion a axiomas emergentes sobre lo social como conjunto de articulaciones complejas y fragmentarias, constituidas en torno a asimetrias fundamentales, y a una creciente proliferacion de diferencias. La escena es nicaraguense; la reflexion versa sobre las diferentes facetas de la revolucion sandinista examinada post ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Битва при Сантьяго

    by Paul Neumann ...
    Испано-американская война 1898 года записалась в истории Соединенных Штатов как символ отваги солдат и некомпетентности их командиров. Сан-Хуан, Эль-Каней, Манила, Сантьяго перешли в легенду американских вооруженных сил наравне с Саратогой и Йорктауном, Новым Орлеаном и Аламо, Геттисбергом и Виксбергом, Нормандией и Арденнами, Иводзимой и Окинавой. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Díganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraíso

    Memorias de una prisionera política

    Díganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraíso recoge las memorias de una joven salvadoreña de espíritu curioso y rebelde, que la lleva a recorrer el mundo. Al regresar a su patria, se inserta en las luchas sociales para transformar una historia marcada por dictaduras militares. Primero se incorpora al Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR); y es testigo del asesinato de algunos de sus dirigentes. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pernambuco político

    Do constitucionalismo à independência

    Encerrando o ciclo de estudo sobre Pernambuco colonial (vida familiar e elites pernambucanas), este volume concentra-se em Pernambuco político, desde a chegado do constitucionalismo até a adesão à política de D. Pedro no Rio de Janeiro e ao movimento de independência. Trata-se de um período agitado em Pernambuco, mas menos estudado do que a insurreição de 1817, no qual perpassam os conflitos entre ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America

    Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom and who benefited from it, and shows the impact of the boom on land use, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD