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Collisions with History, 36: Latin American Fiction and Social Science from "El Boom" to the New World Order
ISBN: 9780896802193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region s history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and scholarship of the late twentieth century. "Collisions with History" shows how fictional histories of discovery and conquest, independence and early nationhood, and the recent authoritarian past were purposeful revisionist collisions with received national versions. These collisions occurred only because of El Boom, thus making Latin America s greatest literary movement a historical phenomenon as well. Frederick M. Nunn discusses the cataclysmic view...
Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region s history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and schola...
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116,27 zł |
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Yesterday's Soldiers: European Military Professionalism in South America, 1890-1940
ISBN: 9780803233058 / Angielski / Twarda / 1983 / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between 1980 and World War II, South America experienced the unsettling first stages of modernization. During this half-century of economic, political, and social change, the armies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru underwent a process of professionalization as European military missions transformed their officer corps into copies of French and German officialdom. In so doing, European officers inculcated their ideals and values, thought and self-perception their professionalism in countries historically vulnerable to militarism.Based mainly on a comprehensive examination of European and...
Between 1980 and World War II, South America experienced the unsettling first stages of modernization. During this half-century of economic, political...
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273,09 zł |
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Literary Memoirs
ISBN: 9780195116861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics. Recuerdos Literarios (or Literary Memoirs) is his masterpiece, encompassing the candid memories of a tireless activist, both the creative and critical sensibilities of an influential Latin American early modernist, and an eyewitness account of the development of Chilean...
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of th...
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111,66 zł |