10,280円 This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume the leading role Europe had played befor...

3,522円 Latin America’s Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacón considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous wri...

5,565円 Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization that create blackness, brownness, and whiteness. Taking the reader into the lived experience of A...

1,060円 This pamphlet describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George...

3,310円 This pioneering work brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American n...

899円 The author was a member of the second of four brigades organised by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign for the 1988-89 season, and their experience was quite different from those who’d visited in earlier years. There’d been a Sandinista unilateral ceasefire for nine months, so the Contra War was m...

950円 Contra el tiempo, los textos pueden conservar de lo edificado, aquello que los inspirara en su momento. En los edificios, los espacios públicos, los monumentos y en el dédalo de las calles que los contiene, son muchos los hechos urbanos que permanecen vivos y cuyo contenido aún ejerce una influen...

950円 Como si se tratara de un tapiz tejido con los hilos de antiguos relatos es este cuentario. En sus páginas habitan las hadas, los príncipes, las princesas, los piratas y los castillos encantados que siempre han deslumbrado a niños y adultos. Además encontramos temas inquietantes sobre el género, l...

950円 Las historias seleccionadas en este libro describen cómo funcionó el sistema esclavista africano en Costa Rica, contado por sus propias víctimas. Hubo particularidades porque no fue igual la vida de los esclavos y sus amos en los ingenios azucareros de Cuba o en las plantaciones de algodón de Est...

752円 In “Quando il Diavolo ci mette la coda... fatti, fattacci e di tutto un po’ al ritmo di samba e bossa-nova” l’autore ha voluto descrivere gli eventi accaduti ad uno dei protagonisti, oltre che a quelli del Brasile, a partire dall’anno 1950. Felice Colombo, questo è il nome del personaggio in ques...

3,522円 This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto’s story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy il...

600円 L'America Latina è una miniera inesauribile di storie impossibili, romanzesche, drammatiche, incredibili, epiche. Storie di persone comuni che la vita, la geografia, la cultura di quel mondo, sconvolto dalla Conquista e arricchito dai tanti meticciati, ha trasformato in vite spesso leggendarie, c...