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  • A History of Brazil

    This book deals with a history of Brazil.The largest republic of South America, and the third largest of the western hemisphere, Brazil, which from a variety of circumstances, has ever been regarded an interesting country, is now become doubly so, from being the present residence of the court of Portugal; and as such, we are induced to give a description of it, which, from the nature and size of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A History of Chile 1808–2018

    Series Book 126 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    As Chile has continued to grow and prosper in the twenty-first century, this new edition of the definitive history of the country brings the story of its political, social and cultural development up to date. It describes how Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, both highly educated Socialists, modernized the country and integrated new interests into Chilean political life, and how the billionaire ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence

    Series series Seminar Studies
    A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence is a concise and accessible volume that presents the history of the Iberian presence in the Americas, from the era of exploration and conquest to the disruption and instability following independence.This history of the Iberian presence in the Americas contains stories of curiosity, vision, courage, missed communication, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A History of Indigenous Latin America

    Aymara to Zapatistas

    A History of Indigenous Latin America is a comprehensive introduction to the people who first settled in Latin America, from before the arrival of the Europeans to the present.Indigenous history provides a singular perspective to political, social and economic changes that followed European settlement and the African slave trade in Latin America. Set broadly within a postcolonial theoretical ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A History of Mining in Latin America

    From the Colonial Era to the Present

    Series series Diálogos Series
    For twenty-five years, Kendall Brown studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. He read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous wealth and unbelievable suffering. New World bullion stimulated the formation of the first world economy but at the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Brazil

    The Past Against the Future

    Over time, Brazil has evolved into a well-defined nation with a strong sense of identity. From the natural beauty of the Amazon River to the exciting resort city of Rio de Janeiro, from soccer champion Pele to classical musician Villa Lobos, Brazil is known as a distinctive, diverse country. It is recognized worldwide for its World Cup soccer team, samba music, dancing, and celebrations of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades.Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s coverage of Cuba over the past decade under Raul CastroAll of the existing chapters have been updated to reflect recent ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    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 overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impactProvides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary peopleFeatures both U.S. and Cuban ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • A History of Violence

    Living and Dying in Central America

    **“A necessary read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“A chilling portrait of corruption, unimaginable brutality and impunity.” —Financial TimesThis revelatory and heartbreaking immersion into the lives of people enduring extreme violence in Central America is a powerful call for immigration policy reform in the United States.**El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A história das ligas camponesas

    Testemunho de quem a viveu

    Ao contrário dos textos acadêmicos e analíticos, A história das ligas camponesas – Testemunho de quem viveu lembra as memórias de campanha e as matérias dos correspondentes de guerra. Seu autor, como neto de Zezé da Galiléia, presidente do movimento, viu de perto o nascimento e desenvolvimento das Ligas Camponesas, e assim relembra o passado e relata como é o presente no Engenho Galiléia, o ventre ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A História De Lampião Contada Através Dos Cordéis

    O cangaço foi um movimento armado que do nordeste brasileiro que teve seu auge no século XX. Dentre os motivos citamos: miséria, monopólio das terras, brigas de família e a insolência dos coronéis. Podemos classificar estes cangaceiros como “bandidos sociais”, ou seja, rebeldes minoritários de uma sociedade rural, visto como criminoso pela elite e como um herói pelo seu povo. Surgiram vários ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A imprensa no processo de Independência do Brasil

    Sexto livro da série de publicações lançadas em comemoração ao bicentenário da Independência do Brasil (1822-2022), A Imprensa no Processo de Independência do Brasil: Hipólito José da Costa, o Correio Braziliense e as Cortes de Lisboa de 1821, de autoria do consultor legislativo José Theodoro Mascarenhas Menck, resgata as circunstâncias da criação da imprensa no Brasil e seu papel fundamental no ... Read more

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  • A la mitad del camino

    Este libro es una compilación de ensayos escritos por el autor en diversos años, de temáticas diferentes, publicados en libros y fuentes periódicas o, en algunos casos, inéditos. Muchos de estas verdaderas joyas literarias tratan sobre asuntos relacionados con la historia de Cuba y de Latinoamérica, sobre la participación personal del autor en los episodios más dramáticos del devenir ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Living Past

    Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

    Series Book 13 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A luta pela anistia na Bahia

    Passados quase 40 anos da promulgação da Lei da Anistia, criada em 1979, o Brasil do século XXI, ainda procura compreender todo o seu significado histórico e político. Este livro procura contribuir com esse debate, analisando o processo histórico da luta pela anistia no Brasil e principalmente na Bahia, evidenciando a atuação do Movimento Feminino Pela Anistia e do Comitê Brasileiro Pela Anistia. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mayan Temple Discovered In Pompeii

    The archaeological site of Pompeii in southern Italy was an ancient Roman town/city situated near modern Naples. It was covered in (4-6) meters of ash and pumice by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The site lay virtually undisturbed until its initial discovery in 1599 and further excavation by Rocque de Alcubierre in 1748.The exciting part about all this is that the town is an almost ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A memória de todos nós

    Eric Nepomuceno traz histórias passadas na Argentina, no Chile e no Uruguai, representativas do longo e tenebroso período que a América Latina viveu entre 1954 e 1990. São narrativas acerca da trajetória de alguns personagens marcantes, não por serem únicos, mas por resgatarem exemplos do que aconteceu em todas as outras nações que viveram o mesmo pesadelo. A memória de todos nós mostra que um ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980

    Kinship, Class Culture

    This book presents the history of the Gomez, an elite family of Mexico that today includes several hundred individuals, plus their spouses and the families of their spouses, all living in Mexico City. Tracing the family from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico through its rise under the Porfirio Diaz regime and focusing especially on the last three generations, the work shows how the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Miracle, a Universe

    Settling Accounts with Torturers

    In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses, still retain tremendous power—and will not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960–2017

    A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the regionWhat went wrong with the economic development of Latin America over the past half-century? Along with periods of poor economic performance, the region’s countries have been plagued by a wide variety of economic crises. This major new work brings together dozens of leading economists to explore the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • A Nation Rising

    Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History

    “History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”— San Francisco ChronicleFollowing on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation’s short life. ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • A New History of Modern Latin America

    A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America

    Edited by Pablo A. Baisotti ...
    This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical perspectives for understanding national, regional and global issues from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, from analysis of the traditional "hegemony" of the United States over Latin ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Oeste do Éden

    Martius e Spix no Brasil

    by Martin Wille ...
    Series series Abelha: Mel & Ferrão
    Johann Baptist von Spix, zoólogo, e Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, botânico, mencionam em seus relatos coisas muito curiosas sobre o Brasil. O que levou dois aristocratas bávaros do começo do século XIX a se exporem a tais perigos, passar fome e sede, viajar a pé, no lombo de mulas, a cavalo ou em pequenas embarcações pelo interior de um Brasil ainda amplamente desconhecido? Não foi o gosto ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus