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The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-21
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A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-16
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America. Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-04
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin America. Features a succinct biography of the life and times of a fascinating figure in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-04
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Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-13
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-01-13
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-23
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-23
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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The decades since the 1980s have witnessed an unprecedented surge in research about Latin American history. This much-needed volume brings together original essays by renowned scholars to provide the first comprehensive assessment of this burgeoning literature.
The...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-05
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-09-02
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2010-03-30
ePub
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Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-02-16
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John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic,...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2009-11-24
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On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chavez. Led by Pedro Carmona and Carlos Ortega, the opposition represented a cross-section of society furious with Chavez's economic policies,...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2009-05-05
ePub
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After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-03-04
ePub
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This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-09-06
ePub
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Franklin Roosevelt's good neighbour policy, coming in the wake of decades of US intervention in Central America, and following a lengthy US military occupation of Nicaragua, marked a significant shift in US policy towards Latin America. Its basic tenets were...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-06-28
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2007-03-27
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Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-09-02
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