0円 O livro didático de história do Brasil tem sofrido um intenso apanágio que reafirma sua importância na prática escolar brasileira. Tal afirmação contempla uma centralidade da cultura escrita diante de outras formas de expressão, que implica um repensar criterioso num momento em que a instituição ...

4,637円 The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on hi...

3,337円 The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditio...

8,289円 **Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language. Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015** Modern Architecture in La...

300円 Un Viaje al Corazón del Folclore Puertorriqueño Leyendas Puertorriqueñas es la obra cumbre de Cayetano Coll y Toste, donde la historia documentada se entrelaza magistralmente con la tradición oral. En estas páginas, el autor rescata los mitos, dramas y milagros que forjaron el espíritu de la isla...

4,844円 In 1981, under the editorship of Victoria Bricker, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume work Handbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest that may not have b...

9,150円 Volume 13 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979), constitutes Part 2 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled und...

4,091円 The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the single most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, well-kno...

2,248円 In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. In the sum...

4,239円 Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populousーas well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowersーmakes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells...

4,637円 Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yo...

4,637円 Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psycholog...