5,955円 Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures. Exploring the various ways in which Brazil has been fashioned by the pioneering scientific and educati...

4,637円 For more than fifty years, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia, the Colombian military killed more than 5,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates ...

3,960円 A fascinating account of a Spanish conquistador who attempted to rule in South America with respect for justice and law for indigenous peoples but was returned to Spain in chains Unlike many Spanish conquistadores who brought to the Americas a wave of disease, destruction, and oppression, Cabeza ...

80円 Bien que peu documentée, l'Histoire de l'Amérique latine préhistorique est aussi ancienne que celle de l'Europe. L'histoire précolombique la plus connue traite des Mayas, Incas, et autres civilisations andines qui ont peut-être été finalement très avancées pour l'époque. Mais l'arrivée des conqui...

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...

0円 Este livro é um convite e ao mesmo tempo uma rara oportunidade de viajar de volta ao passado. Não só aqueles que foram alunos do Mestre Bimba e privaram da sua intimidade podem reconhecer a importância do tema e a firmeza do seu conteúdo. Mestre Bimba, lenda da capoeiragem, é retratado como um vi...

7,427円 Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored “Truth and Reconciliation Committee” reported that the conflict lasted longer, a...

860円 馬雅人神祕地淡出了世人的視線，但是他們留下來的遺跡卻能讓人深深感受到這段古老智慧民族的無窮魅力。雖然經過數百年的風吹日曬，雨水沖刷，塵土掩埋，這些鐫刻在石頭上、凝結在石頭中的歷史印證仍然佇立於創造者的家園。它們像一首凝固的史詩，即使記錄它的經書失落了，口傳它的人民不在了，卻仍能在故土的上空迴響，...

4,637円 Venezuela's most prominent community television station, Catia TVe, was launched in 2000 by activists from the barrios of Caracas. Run on the principle that state resources should serve as a weapon of the poor to advance revolutionary social change, the station covered everything from Hugo Chávez...

152円 "Amazonas en las Indias" es una obra dramática de tres actos con una mayor dinámica y que de forma amena introduce el tema de la grandeza de las acciones de Gonzalo Pizarro, hermano de don Francisco, por quien la familia caería en desgracia durante el gobierno de Carlos V. Tirso de Molina, con es...

4,227円 The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan...

2,382円 This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two perspectives; first, the broad picture of Honduras ...