The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Paperback

Reducere. Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and...

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic Afr...

Reducere. Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ra...

While Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European ...

Reducere. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a...

Reducere. DescriptionTracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspecti...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation a...

Reducere. Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by ...

Reducere. Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dict...

Reducere. The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Mexicos--the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary...

Reducere. The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's r...

Reducere. Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska's first peoples are ofte...

This revised and updated edition of The Mexico Reader provides an expansive and comprehensive guide to the many varied histories and cultures of Me...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

Anthony Pereira introduces the country and idea of Brazil, from its depiction in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, to Brazil's colonial past, and the ...

Reducere. From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia,...

Reducere. A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman when she visits the stunning and diverse land of Brazil in the newest book of her informative series. Learn about the varied c...

A history of one of the most interesting, beautiful and various countries on Earth, from European arrival in 1500 and the dark European ferocity th...

DescriptionThe American founders did not endorse a citizen's right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor's communication...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

Reducere. For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval and fine coffee, but it is much more than beaches and bossa nova. If you could choo...

Reducere. The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from La...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman when she visits the stunning and diverse land of Brazil in the newest book of her informative series. Learn about the varied c...

A definitive reader for all students of food history, comprised of primary source extracts spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the prese...

The Backward Glance: A Miscellany of Irish History, Politics & Culture is a rare bird. It deals with topics of Irish political and cultural history...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Falina EnriquezIllustration(s): 11 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 280Publication date:...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

This book makes available, for the first time in English, essays and poetry published in the seminal postcolonial Moroccan journal of culture and p...

Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musees Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined...

DescriptionWidely believed to be Terry Gilliam's best film, Brazil's brilliantly imaginative vision of a retro-futuristic bureaucracy has had a las...

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M CondeNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 16Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Queer Wales provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales, launching an important discussion and suggesting th...

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Reducere. Collected in this massive 500 page omnibus editions are Walter Lippman's four most important books. These four books are seminal texts in the field...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic hist...

This new edition of an established text has been thoroughly revised and updated, bringing the story up to Hollande's presidency. It now incorporate...

This book offers the reader a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful histo...

This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200, 000 years.

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as ...

A thoroughly revised and updated 3rd edition, highlighting the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. Contains 47 essays by...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Graham Denyer WillisIllustration(s): 7 b-w illustrations, 1 mapNumber of pages: 230Publication ...

Providing an in-depth study of the construction of foreign policy in developing countries, Martin Mullins takes an original line of both a post-pos...

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on...

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