9,150円 Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkle...

195円 Example in this ebook Probably the most important of the South American republics, Brazil has now won for herself world recognition and esteem. Though Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama made formal declarations of war against the German Empire, Brazil alone was ab...

4,642円 Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military n...

2,400円 Preisgekrönte Journalisten zeigen die Realität von Lateinamerika heute: Jugendliche Drogenbanden übernehmen die Herrschaft über ganze Stadtviertel, illegale Migranten machen sich auf ihre lebensgefährliche Reise in Richtung USA, Mädchen tragen Kalaschnikows und lernwillige Schüler nehmen mehrstün...

4,091円 Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areasーplanning, demography, or economicsーand has emphasized either power elites or the masses, but not both. The published literature on Latin America has reflected these interests and has so far failed to prov...

4,844円 Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater. Playwrights discussed are those who have made outstanding contributions to Latin American theater during the post–World War II period and who have been particularly sensitive ...

4,844円 New Approaches to Latin American History incorporates methods and concepts from the social sciences without abandoning a distinctively historical approach. A collection of original essays by distinguished younger scholars, it proposes original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems i...

5,970円 In May 1962, as the struggle for civil rights heated up in the United States and leaders of the Catholic Church prepared to meet for Vatican Council II, Pope John XXIII named the first black saint of the Americas, the Peruvian Martín de Porres (1579–1639), and designated him the patron of racial ...

3,524円 How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration. **Winner, Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Honorable Mention for the 2015 Latino Studies Best Book pres...

5,214円 Drawing on testimonies from contra collaborators and ex-combatants, as well as pro-Sandinista peasants, this book presents a dynamic account of the growing divisions between peasants from the area of Quilalí who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals such as land reform and ...

557円 Born in Havana on February 6 1932 into an immigrant working-class family of Spanish anarchists, Camilo Cienfuegos ーwho firmly believed in the libertarian tenets of anarchism (if not himself an anarchist) ー will, forever, be inseparably linked to the idealistic period of the Cuban Revolution of ...

5,214円 Two tropical commoditiesーcoffee and sugarーdominated Latin American export economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When Sugar Ruled: Economy and Society in Northwestern Argentina, Tucumán, 1876–1916 presents a distinctive case that does not quite fit into the pattern of many L...