Empire of Eloquence. The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World, Hardback - Stuart M. Mcmanus

An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberia...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. This volume excavates his ...

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western ...

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about ...

Reducere. Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and disc...

DescriptionIVP Academic is pleased to release this important work, originally published in Spanish as En busca de Cristo en Am rica Latina, for the...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

"A typically wise and thoughtful book, which manages to combine a wealth of unexpected information with an immensely readable style - it should gra...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book shows how and why politicians and police actors confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to contain criminal violence in urban a...

Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully r...

Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. Examining key modes of transport including carts, carriages, chariots,...

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims-including the dead-d...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

Reducere. During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521-1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry, then embellished with ...

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory.Publi...

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

Focusing on the works of 'Abdisho' of Nisibis, bishop and polymath of the Church of the East, this study examines the intellectual strategies emplo...

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This bo...

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people....

Sets out and analyses the main foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. In the region, FDI inflo...

Reducere. DescriptionDesigned for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominan...

A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.