2,847円 **'Excellent' Financial Times 'Stirring, impressively detailed' Time magazine The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.** Ten we...

611円 La introducción de las Leyes de Cuotas para cargos legislativos en varios países de América Latina durante la década de los ´90, significó el paso más importante para avanzar hacia la equidad de género al interior de las cámaras. Su aplicación trajo consigo una serie de ventajas adicionales al he...

5,300円 Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia. T...

6,566円 Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote," Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getúlio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Catholic and lawyer...

5,970円 The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argen...

661円 INDICE I A Europa e o reconhecimento Papel da esquadra na Independencia Aberturas de reconciliação Nomeação de Brant e Gameiro Expedições armadas na Inglaterra Encarregatura de negocios de Hyppolito Instrucções a Gameiro Posição diplomatica do Brazil Justificação da Independencia A mediação ingle...

5,300円 None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon brea...

4,637円 In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development p...

4,637円 In Children of Facundo Ariel de la Fuente examines postindependence Argentinian instability and political struggle from the perspective of the rural lower classes. As the first comprehensive regional study to explore nineteenth-century society, culture, and politics in the Argentine interiorーwhe...

2,642円 It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. It was close to the same town that it ended for them over fifteen hundred days later. Neither the BEF nor the German Army planned or foresaw that first confrontat...

2,334円 “I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely different type from the one I dreamed of, and whe...

611円 Me hallaba en Edimburgo, en el cuerpo de ingenieros, cuando se me propuso hacerme cargo de una compañía cuyo objeto era explotar minas de oro y plata en las provincias del Río de la Plata; y, en consecuencia, con aviso de poquísimos días, zarpé de Falmouth y llegué a Buenos Aires una semana despu...