Latin American Independence

Latin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the pr...

In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Va...

Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental gove...

Examines the Independence holiday, exploring how this most important public festival in the civic calendar has given Mexicans a rich tradition of n...

Reducere. This excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from sever...

DescriptionAfter emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with inde...

Reducere. José Martí (1853-1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the "Great Liberator" Si...

Reducere. Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summ...

Reducere. El sentido comun, ensayo escrito por Thomas Paine, se publico por primera vez el 10 de enero de 1776, durante la Revolucion americana. Este ensayo ...

Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

Reducere. Description"Rich in subject matter and eminently readable, this book is also a fine work of scholarship. The more than 1, 200 footnotes are models ...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in its fifth edition, this leading reader has been updated with new readings and visual sources. This edition includes an added fina...

Reducere. While this work tries to be a primer in Cuban history in its relationship with its northern neighbor and mentor, the United States, before the Cast...

Reducere. This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scho...

Reducere. 1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she did...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Edgar WidemanA philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism an...

DescriptionIn the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a ser...

Reducere. W. Deloss love's biography of Samson Occom is a work of in time. Long out of print, this classic account reveals one of the most unusual actors to ...