The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History, Paperback - Pablo Palomino

Reducere. The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but ho...

DescriptionLatin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identiti...

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and sett...

DescriptionExperiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad to...

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture--embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely...

The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brill...

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case...

DescriptionPartition--the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states--is often presented as a successfu...

Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical respons...

Thoroughly revised and updated, this foundational text provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countri...

The Book of Latin American Cooking is an exotic, exciting and uncomplicated cookbook that comes with a fascinating culinary introduction and notes ...

Over the past two decades, transnational history has become an established term describing approaches to the writing of world or global history tha...

Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...

Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...

Reducere. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah ...

Reducere. 2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in th...

Identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions in Samantha Hastings' Victo...

A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin...

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention - the art of writing.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s...

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Luis (Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): G BlancNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 How did a country that liberated itself from seventy years of Soviet rule end up as one of the biggest threats to t...

A new account of innovative French poet, novelist, essayist and film writer Blaise Cendrars.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Eric RobertsonIllus...

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages - Geraldine Heng

Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First publi...

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

States that the Wild West of Hollywood and American folklore is nothing more than a functional myth. The author presents a sustained analysis of ho...

Publisher: University of Texas PressNumber of pages: 832Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 162 x 246 x 50Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Katherine D....

Reducere. When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had i...

There are many well-known recipes in Mexico and Columbia, but what about the unheralded tasty dishes of Nicaragua? The people of Nicaragua have ple...