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Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2007-03-27
Format(s) : ePub
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Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2005-09-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-06-24
Format(s) : PDF
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Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-04-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is the first detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia during the period c. 1850 and 1930. Patricia Londoño-Vega gives a vivid picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-04-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, for many decades Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora develops a historically based view of how socio-economic and political change affected the landowners and was in turn affected...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-01-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-02-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-02-10
Format(s) : PDF
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The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America. For the first time, this book shows in detail the strategy of the U.S. and Bolivian...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1998-01-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Ever since Max Weber started an argument about the role of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's economic development, scholars have clashed over the influence of religion and culture on a society's (or an individual's) economic prospects. Today, many wonder...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-05-01
Format(s) : PDF
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Based on a decade of field research, this work is the first book-length, scholarly examination in English of the role of Catholicism in Mexican society since the 1970s through 1995, and the increasing political activism of the Catholic church and clergy. It is also the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-01-09
Format(s) : PDF
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On the night of August 17, 1823, the distinctly African sounds of blaring shell-horns and beating drums signalled the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana)....
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1994-05-19
Format(s) : PDF
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The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1990-03-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1988-01-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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