2,177円 In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemmaーa man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherou...

1,728円 O autor apresenta um estudo etnográfico de povos de Iaueretê (Tariano e Tukano), no Alto Rio Negro, detendo-se nas transformações sociais que vêm sofrendo em função do contato com o homem branco. O trabalho inicia-se com um levantamento histórico da ocupação da região, passa por temas como demarc...

661円 As relações luso-brasileiras: A immigração e a «desnacionalização» do Brasil INDICE Introducção I A proposta Consiglieri Pedroso II O problema luso-brasileiro III O supposto perigo IV Os estrangeiros no Brasil V O povoamento e a nacionalidade VI A immigração portuguesa VII A permuta commercial VI...

575円 Inca Empire Quechua languages Pre-Columbian era Cusco Peru Andean civilizations Andes Ecuador Chile Colombia Argentina Bolivia Huaca Inti Pachamama Sapa Inca Solar deity Pachacuti Topa Inca Yupanqui Huayna Capac Atahualpa Kingdom of Cusco Francisco Pizarro Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire Manc...

3,337円 To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogotá, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of perceptionsーoutsiders' fears versus insiders' realitiesーdrew June Carolyn Erlick back to Bogotá ...

1,243円 In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times). The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the myth...

4,091円 From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, ...

4,637円 Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of Medicine. Julyan G. Peard explores how this group of obscure clinicians became participants in an international debate as they hel...

5,300円 A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world’s foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, São Paulo was...

5,300円 Drawing on deconstruction, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and subaltern studies, The Other Side of the Popular is as much a reflection on the limitations and possibilities for thinking about the politics of Latin American culture as it is a study of the culture itself. Gareth Williams pay...

5,300円 Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Ye...

4,371円 In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artis...