Latin American History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 9

Lombroso in the Americas

This volume examines the impact, reception, circulation and refashioning of the criminological theories put forth by Cesare Lombroso in North and Latin America from the late 19th to the mid 20th century.

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Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Flower Traveled in My Blood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "[An] astonishing story...Powerful...Harrowing...Absorbing and lucid...You would have to harden your heart to be unmoved by the Abuelas' quest." ---Jennifer Szalai, The New…

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Leni Ribeiro Leite, Dreykon Fernandes Nascimento,
José Basílio Da Gama's Brazilian Goldmines

Published here for the first time in an accessible edition, Brasilienses Aurifodinae or "Brazilian Goldmines" is an 18th century hexameter poem in Latin, by Brazilian author José Basílio da Gama…

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Sarah Fouts
Rebuilding New Orleans

Reveals how after Hurricane Katrina, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshaped New Orleans and its suburbs

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José Daniel Fernández Dugarte
For Now and Forever!

For Now and Forever! deals with the two military coup d'état attempts in Venezuela of 1992, providing the background to both the socio-economic situation of the country and the state of affairs inside of …

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Martin Austin Nesvig
The Women Who Threw Corn

This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native wom…

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Margaret Chowning
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750-1940

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition …

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Nawa Sugiyama
Animal Matter

Animal Matter uses primary excavation, zooarchaeological, and isotope data from the study of nearly 200 jaguars, pumas, wolves, rattlesnakes, and golden eagles that were sacrificed or offered to the Moon …

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists analyze the origins and causes of their country's crisis and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brings together a diverse array…

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Asunción Lavrin
Men of God

A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexic…

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists analyze the origins and causes of their country's crisis and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brings together a diverse array…

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Fidel Castro
Che, a Memoir

In this memoir, Fidel Castro describes his historic political partnership and personal friendship with Che Guevara, a relationship that changed the course of Cuban politics and world history."For me …

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María Teresa Fernández Aceves,
Freethinkers and Labor Leaders

María Teresa Fernández Aceves examines the lives, political careers, and participation in the public sphere of five women who aided in the creation of a modern culture in twentieth-century Mexico and, in …

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James A Crutchfield
Revolt at Taos

An Uprising by New Mexicans and Native Americans Against American Rule that Continues to Resonate Today On the morning of January 19, 1847, Charles Bent, the newly appointed governor of the American-claim…

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Lena Oak Suk
In the Darkness of the Cinema

Gender and sexual morality, and their intersections with race and class, were central to the formation of urban Brazil in the twentieth century. In the Darkness of the Cinematakes a wide-ranging and innov…

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Eli Lee Carter
The New Brazilian Mediascape

In this book, Eli Carter explores the ways in which the movement away from historically popular telenovelas toward new television and internet series is creating dramatic shifts in how Brazil imagines its…

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Chelsea Burns
The Exotic Self

When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound…

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Laurence Blair
Patria

An extraordinary adventure into South America's epic history'Absolutely wonderful' DOMINIC SANDBROOK 'A luscious, erudite romp ... a tour de force of literary mezcla' ALICE ALBINIA 'An unputdownable delig…

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Marshall C Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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William H Beezley
Latin America 2025-2026

**The World Today Series: Latin America 2025-2026 provides historical background on Latin America to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this region.**Broad introduc…

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