878円 Cuba è un paese che evoca un notevole fascino e ricco di una complessa storia militare. Una guida veloce ed esauriente, che approfondisce le tattiche e le strategie militari degli eserciti cubani dalle origini fino ai giorni nostri. Con una lunga cavalcata attraverso le gesta dei pirati, d...

878円 Of all the Eye-Witness books the Sara Yorke Stevenson's Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862 - 1867 is one of the most lucid, informed, and balanced. He write this reportage during the brief reign of Maximilian, at the time the author was a young girl livi...

3,840円 In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years ...

4,679円 The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new men" wh...

451円 The Mayan Empire Uncovering The Mysteries of Maya (Forgotten Empires Series) The Mayan culture is utterly fascinating and holds many mysterious secrets. In this book you will discover all about the advances that were made by the Mayan civilization, as well as the possibilities that they knew more...

7,296円 On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New...

6,018円 Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections between traditional ecological practices and the health and wellness of the Maya community living ...

150円 While studying the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Guatemalan Maya in the Newberry Library in Chicago, two archeologists stumble upon a hidden message embeded in the text. Unknown to them, using a snitch, a French pharmaceutical mogul discover their finding. He is lead to believe that the profe...

16,372円 Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-to-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600. Over two hundred entries written by more than sixty researchers explore subjects ranging from food, clothing, and shelter to the sophisti...

4,106円 In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an ...

4,629円 In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company’s power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean c...

300円 Dieses eBook: "Romane und Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen: Die Neue Welt Sammelband" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Charles Sealsfield, eigentlich Carl Anton Postl, (1793-1864) war ein österreichischer und US-amerik...