Latin American History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 7

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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Fernando Pérez-Montesinos
Landscaping Indigenous Mexico

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

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Emily Wakild
A Moderating Force

Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land was managed, national governments set aside protecte…

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Emily Wakild
A Moderating Force

Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land was managed, national governments set aside protecte…

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Modern Architecture of Quito

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

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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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Ted Genoways
Tequila Wars

At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise that…

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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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The New Latin American Fashion Reader

This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Readerto explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.

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Ted Genoways
Tequila Wars

At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise that…

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Susana Sosenski,
The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico

A study of emotions and the history of child kidnapping in Mexico between 1900 and 1968, charting the series of moral panics created by a mass media response.

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The New Latin American Fashion Reader

This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Readerto explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.

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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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Fidel J Tavárez
Assembling an Imperial Machine

During the eighteenth century, Spanish statesmen pursued a set of ambitious imperial reforms that thoroughly remade conceptualizations of empire. They compared well-ordered empires to harmonious machines …

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James L Fitzsimmons
Blood on the Wind

The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE. Crops died, disease and malnutrition spread, and sc…

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The Amlo Administration in Mexico

A diverse group of international scholars offers cutting-edge analysis of the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration and Mexico's "Fourth Transformation" - one of the most profound st…

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Adriana Novoa
From Virile to Sterile

As rigorous scientific and philosophical discourse circulated during the Enlightenment, aided by the Republic of Letters, a revolutionary understanding of gender emerged that would impact nation building …

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Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky,
Iosi, the Remorseful Spy

A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires. An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the military regi…

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Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla
Kant and the Problem of Nothingness

The Latin American philosopher Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla published the first study of Kant's concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla's ground-breaking work makes it available in …

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Ricardo Martin Lezon
Eyes of the Fleet Sea Planes in Argentine Navy Service

During the late 1920s, the South American nation of Argentina began building a powerful naval fleet to defend its 2,500-mile (4,000km) coastline and critical navigation lanes - the fleet was named Flota d…

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