Latin America History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 3

Maximilian Fritz Feichtner
The Metamorphosis of the Amazon

The Metamorphosis of the Amazon sheds new light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest, revealing how oil development and its social and ecological repercussions triggered its metamorphosis. …

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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 …

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Sergio Serulnikov
The Power of Dissent

The Power of Dissent examines the crisis of Spanish rule through the changing political culture of Chuquisaca (Bolivia), the most important city in the southern Andes. Sergio Serulnikov argues that in the…

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Agnes Gehbald
A Colonial Book Market

This volume provides a wholly original social history of books in late colonial Peru. From the second half of the eighteenth century onward, workshops in Lima and transoceanic imports supplied the market …

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Joseph M H Clark
Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century

In the seventeenth century, Veracruz was the busiest port in the wealthiest colony in the Americas. People and goods from five continents converged in the city, inserting it firmly into the early modern w…

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Martine Jean
Policing Freedom

Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population du…

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Max Deardorff
A Tale of Two Granadas

In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Sp…

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Tatiana Seijas
American Metropolis

Mexico City was America's largest city in the seventeenth century - a genuine metropolis. In this deeply researched book, Tatiana Seijas reveals a rich tapestry of stories about essential workers who rema…

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Kenneth J Andrien
The Spanish Atlantic World, 1492-1825

The overseas enterprises of Spain expanded dramatically following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Spanish had already conquered the Canary Islands, which served as a base for the lat…

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Stephanie Schmidt
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain

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

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Fernando Pérez-Montesinos
Landscaping Indigenous Mexico

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

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Mary Helen Spooner
Prelude to a Dictatorship

What can be learned from Chile's experience with severe political polarization?Many view Chilean President Salvador Allende as a tragic victim of heavy-handed U.S. policy thanks to declassified documents …

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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…

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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Adrian Masters
The Radical Spanish Empire

A groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork.As Spanish conquistadors swe…

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Serge Gruzinski,
The Language of the Conquerors

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, pape…

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Serge Gruzinski,
The Language of the Conquerors

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, pape…

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Claudia Kedar
The World Bank and the Cold War in Latin America

Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pillar of the postwar order, and the world's leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensi…

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Adrian Masters
We, the King

We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the New World, revealing how ordinary subjects had much more say in government and law-makin…

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Natalia Majluf
Inventing Indigenism

A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.

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Abril Liberatori
Transnational Italians and the Culture of Everyday Life

Departing from conventional community-based histories, this innovative work examines how immigrant identities are transformed into transnational ones. Focusing on families from the Campania region of Ital…

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