Relicarios: The Forgotten Jewels of Latin America, Hardcover - Martha J. Egan

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

Reducere. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an o...

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

Reducere. This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail p...

Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): W. Charles SawyerIllustration(s): 18 Illustrations, black and white; 44 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 262...

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 the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elect...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Duncan GreenAuthor: Sue BranfordFaces of Latin America has sold more than 50, 000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, a...

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 ...

One of ECLAC's most important annual reports, this analyses the economic performance of the region throughout the year, the international context a...

Publisher: Key Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Rivas, SantiagoIllustration(s): Approx. 160Number of pages: 96Collection: Air Forces SeriesPublication date...

An enlightening account of the entwined histories of knowledge and nationhood in Latin America--and beyond The rise of nation-states is a hallmark ...

Reducere. DescriptionThese are uncertain times in Latin America. Popular faith in democracy has been shaken; traditional political parties and institutions a...

Traces the story of Muslims in Latin American and the Caribbean: their deep roots in the region, as well as the current connections among the multi...

Reducere. Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation ...

Reducere. Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world...

The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America--from Brazil to Chile to Venezuela to Bolivia--but to understand what happened, ...

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

Reducere. "A thrilling account that puts the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, billed as "the crime of the century, " in the context of the thousands of o...

Focusing on the processes of accumulation, concentration, and centralisation of capital, Rubens Sawaya traces the transnationalisation of capital a...

DescriptionThis book covers the story of all the British military aircraft that served in Latin America since 1940. Though the presence of British ...

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

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 ...

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

Reducere. In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song "The Tide Is High, " or...

A Lake? A boat? An eagle and Otter? A bear eating smores by the campfire? Grandpa and Grandma? All things we see and experience going up north to g...

Reducere. Cura ao's historic plantation houses showcase unique architecture that resulted from the use of European, especially Dutch, building styles adapted...

Reducere. Provides an answer key to the drills and exercises contained in each of the units of John F Collins's bestselling A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin....