Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements, Paperback - Marc Becker

Reducere. In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that ...

DescriptionAfter centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a...

Reducere. In The CIA in Ecuador Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement o...

DescriptionMark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the ab...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

Reducere. The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc BeckerDuring the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin ...

Eduardo Galeano writes: These pages, written in bursts, disorderly, jubilant and desperate, tell of the adventures and misfortunes of the man who h...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indi...

Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

This volume is an introduction to the intellectual movement known as Postmodernism and its impact on the visual arts. In clear, jargon-free languag...

By using different ways of describing the world of scientific endeavour, the author has produced a fascinating visually beautiful and highly entert...

Reducere. In reading ALL IN: The Making of a PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, one begins to understand that the PA has chosen a vocation in which work will permeate all ...

Reducere. DescriptionMixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different...

Bain Attwood re-examines the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand, demonstratin...

Argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with th...

The rollicking behind-the-scenes story of Sharpe's Rifles, one of British TV's most beloved shows, featuring a foreword by Sharpe author Bernard Co...

The rollicking behind-the-scenes story of Sharpe's Rifles, one of British TV's most beloved shows, featuring a foreword by Sharpe author Bernard Co...

Reducere. Herbert Marcuse examined the subjective and material conditions of radical social change and developed the "Great Refusal, " a radical concept of "...

Reducere. From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical ...

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 ...

Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse t...

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 ...

Reducere. In timp ce studiul de fata isi propune sa analizeze dezvoltarea intelectualului modern dintr-un punct de vedere predominant literar, se acorda si o...

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian ...

Reducere. Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Theresa (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) EnrightIllustration(s): 9 figures; 9 Illustrations, unspeci...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Reducere. Have you ever heard of the Blair Witch? This simple question captivated moviegoers in the summer of 1999. From the start, The Blair Witch Project w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean Hough DaveyWith: Anne O'HaganIn the 1960s, when women were neither accepted nor encouraged to enter the world of finan...