Trefferliste "Latin America History" - alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Josep Manuel Peramàs,

A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic (1793)

Josep Manuel Peramàs's A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793 analyzes Guaraní-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public…

Mari Rodríguez Binnie

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo.

Moe Taylor

North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959-1970

Examines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s, offering a new understanding of North Korean foreign policy and the rise of Tricontinentalis…

Louise E Walker

Debts Unpaid

Power struggles between debtors and creditors about unpaid debts have animated the history of economic transformation from the emergence of capitalist relations to the recent global financial crashes. Ill…

Alejandro De La Fuente, Cary Aileen García Yero

My Own Past

In late eighteenth-century Havana, residents frequently referred to the existence of large communities of negros and pardos as 'officers in the trade of painter' and the authors of 'exquisite works.' But …

Louise E Walker

Debts Unpaid

Power struggles between debtors and creditors about unpaid debts have animated the history of economic transformation from the emergence of capitalist relations to the recent global financial crashes. Ill…

Nicole Von Germeten,

Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century

As the first book-length examination of abolition and its legacies in Mexico, this collection reveals innovative social, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches to Afro-Mexican history. It compli…

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

Armed Citizens and Citizens in Arms

In this book, Natalia Sobrevilla Perea reconstructs the history of the armed forces in nineteenth century Peru and reveals what it meant to be a member of the armed forces. By centering the experiences of…

Fernando Pérez-Montesinos

Landscaping Indigenous Mexico

A history of the Purépecha people's survival amid environmental and political changes.

Stephanie Schmidt

Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain

Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.

Nicola Miller

Republics of Knowledge

"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century a…

Sebastian Purcell

The Outward Path

The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness but the pursuit of what they called 'neltiliztli': a life in truth. Our world, they held, is a "slippe…

Clifford L Staten

The History of Nicaragua

From colonial rule to revolution and beyond, this concise history of Nicaragua unpacks the political struggles, economic transformations, and social movements that have shaped the nation.

Peter V N Henderson

Uruguay

This book illuminates the broad sweep of Uruguay's political, economic, and social history from colonial times to the twenty-first century within a transnational context. It dives into the country's uniqu…

Discourses of the Elders

Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these cla…

Kenneth J Andrien

The Spanish Atlantic World, 1492-1825

This wide-ranging study examines the evolution of the Spanish Atlantic World from its inception with the voyages of Christopher Columbus through the period of conquest and expansion in the sixteenth centu…

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime

Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell

In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of Potosí, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against ne…

Modern Architecture of Quito

A historical study of Latin American modernism, foregrounding Quito, Ecuador as a point of encounter between local and international influences.