Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America, Paperback - Michael Reid

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

A comprehensive analysis, "Magical Reels" charts the development of Latin American film industries in a world increasingly dominated by the advance...

Reducere. Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbole...

Travelogue exploring Irish roots and connections in South America - travels through Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Santiago, Asuncion and Santa Cruz. Re...

Reducere. While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora act...

Taking a reader-friendly approach that focuses on the big picture and uses concrete examples, this book is the perfect introduction to Latin Americ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don JordanAuthor: Michael WalshWhite Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage...

The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple - Malcolm Barber

Reducere. The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book...

Reducere. Relicarios--finely crafted, bi-faced lockets of gold or silver--are artifacts of the Spanish Colonial era. These exquisite jewels containing devoti...

On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to re...

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 ...

The revised and fully updated edition of the seminal, sweeping history of post-colonial Africa.Illustrations: 3 x 8pp mono plates

This book celebrates the legacy of theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952-2009), and her particular influence in Asia and South America.Publisher: ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hernaan HornaAuthor: Herman HornaThe history of Latin America has been written principally with a top-down approach that fo...

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Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish an...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

Reducere. ALCATRAZ - the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al...

Reducere. William C. Davis, "one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom), o...

Reducere. For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general ...

This book offers a comprehensive, region-wide examination of the politics of taxation in Latin America, one of the most pressing issues to confront...

The history inscribed in New England's meetinghouses waits to be told. There, colonists gathered for required worship on the Sabbath, for town meet...

Reducere. The native Penacook, Winnipesaukee, Pigwacket, Sokoki, Cowasuck and Ossipee tribes, collectively known as the Abenaki, once thrived along the Grani...

Reducere. Forgotten Colorado: The Eastern Plains explores this often ignored and underappreciated part of the state. Known as the agricultural center of Colo...

Reducere. A sightseeing trip in southern Africa in 2007 opened the author's eyes to an uncharted music scene in an unexpected place: rock and metal, alive an...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

Reducere. The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times BestsellerAmerican democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single gen...

Reducere. The native Penacook, Winnipesaukee, Pigwacket, Sokoki, Cowasuck and Ossipee tribes, collectively known as the Abenaki, once thrived along the Grani...

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more tha...