wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Latin America 2024-2025
ISBN: 9781538185841 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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104,49 zł |
Latin America 2023-2024
ISBN: 9781538176108 / Miękka / 2023 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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104,49 zł |
Latin America 2020-2022, 54th Edition
ISBN: 9781475856439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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109,99 zł |
Latin America 2022-2023, 55th Edition
ISBN: 9781538165867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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109,99 zł |
Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America
ISBN: 9780826359759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Offers a useful introduction to the twin themes of music and national identity and melodies and ethnic identification. The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
Offers a useful introduction to the twin themes of music and national identity and melodies and ethnic identification. The contributors examine a vari...
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183,73 zł |
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence: An Introduction, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781442212558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food. These themes and events highlight the ways in which a wide range of individuals with copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and altogether enjoy life. The authors...
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to t...
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275,10 zł |
Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780803224476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On November 20, 1910, Mexicans initiated the world s first popular social revolution. The unbalanced progress of the previous regime triggered violence and mobilizedindividuals from all classes to demand social and economic justice. In the process they shaped modern Mexico at a cost of two million lives.
This accessible and gripping account guides the reader through the intricacies of the revolution, focusing on the revolutionaries as a group and the implementation of social and political changes. In this volume written for the revolution's centennial, William H. Beezley and Colin M.... On November 20, 1910, Mexicans initiated the world s first popular social revolution. The unbalanced progress of the previous regime triggered violenc...
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83,58 zł |
Latin America 2019-2020, 53rd Edition
ISBN: 9781475852189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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137,55 zł |
Mexico's Crucial Century, 1810-1910: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780803228443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would endure throughout the crucial nineteenth century. A weakened Mexico faced American territorial ambitions and economic pressure, and the U.S.-Mexican War threatened the fledgling nation's survival. In 1876 Porfirio Diaz became president of Mexico, bringing political stability to the troubled nation. Although Diaz initiated long-delayed economic development and laid the foundation of modern Mexico, his government was an oligarchy created at the...
After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would endu...
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83,58 zł |
The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780842022842 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This unique collection emphasizes the human element in thestudy of Latin American history by focusing on the lives of twenty-three men, women, and children. Though they differ widely from each other in background and circumstance, these individuals share a common experience: all are caught up in some way by the profound, sometimes devastating, changes that accompany the modernization of a traditional society. Their stories bring vividly to life the impact that revolution, economic upheaval, urbanization, destruction of community life, and the disruption of family and gender roles have on...
This unique collection emphasizes the human element in thestudy of Latin American history by focusing on the lives of twenty-three men, women, and chi...
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231,08 zł |
Latin American Cultural Objects and Episodes
ISBN: 9781119078265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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142,78 zł |
Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781496206909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, from 1876 to 1911. William H. Beezley illuminates many facets of everyday Mexican life, including sports, storytelling, healthcare, technology, and the traditional Easter-time Judas burnings that became a focus of strife during those years.
Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfiri...
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83,58 zł |
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence: An Introduction, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781442212541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food. These themes and events highlight the ways in which a wide range of individuals with copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and altogether enjoy life. The authors...
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to t...
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676,75 zł |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture
ISBN: 9780190680893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 2360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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3886,59 zł |
Mexico in World History
ISBN: 9780195337907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley highlights the penetrating effect of Spain's three-hundred-year colonial rule, during which Mexico became a multicultural society marked by Roman Catholicism and the Spanish language. Independence, he shows, was likewise marked by...
Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a drama...
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154,80 zł |
The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America
ISBN: 9780842026130 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting new volume. The most compelling chapters from these books are now presented in The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. This collection offers powerful, fascinating biographies of ordinary people caught in the sometimes devastating historical changes that have occurred in Latin America. From the turbulent struggles for independence in the 1800s to the profound and often overwhelming transformations that have accompanied modernization in this...
SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting ...
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231,08 zł |
Latin America : The People and Their History
ISBN: 9780618914777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text describes the living, evolving cultural experience of Latin America. The authors place key elements to understanding both the region's history and its present, people, places, politics, economics, and cultures, into historical perspective.
This text describes the living, evolving cultural experience of Latin America. The authors place key elements to understanding both the region's histo...
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440,11 zł |
The Oxford History of Mexico
ISBN: 9780195112283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mexico is a country of fascinating contrasts--glorious history and tumultuous politics, extraordinary culture and desperate poverty, ancient traditions and rapid modernization. Yet despite the growing curiosity about Mexico due to increased trade and commerce, mostly resulting from NAFTA, as well as increased tourism and immigration, there is presently no up-to-date, accessible history of Mexico for general readers.
The Oxford History of Mexico, edited by Michael Meyer and William Beezley is a comprehensive, lucidly written, and fully current narrative history by twenty of the most... Mexico is a country of fascinating contrasts--glorious history and tumultuous politics, extraordinary culture and desperate poverty, ancient tradition...
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211,75 zł |
Mexico: The Essentials
ISBN: 9780195387186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mexico: The Essentials provides a concise introduction to Mexican history and culture built on ten fundamental aspects of Mexican life. Featuring a topical organization, the book offers readers easy access to these major themes--the "essentials"--that shape the nation and society: physical and living diversity, politics, family, economy, religion, Mexico City, popular arts, drugs and crimes, migration, and Mexico in global perspective. Authors William H. Beezley and Colin M. MacLachlan weave together each narrative with material from cultural investigations, ethnic and gender studies, and new...
Mexico: The Essentials provides a concise introduction to Mexican history and culture built on ten fundamental aspects of Mexican life. Featuring a to...
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231,36 zł |
Problems in Modern Mexican History: Sources and Interpretations
ISBN: 9781442241220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mexicans, since national independence, have defined their challenges as problems or dimensions in their lives. They have faced these issues alone or with others through politics, security (the military, police, or even public health squads), religion, family, and popular groups. This compelling reader collects documents--texts, visuals, videos, and sounds--from organizational reports, popular expressions, and ephemeral creations to express these concerns, reveal responses, and measure successes. They allow readers to consider and discuss how these documents enabled Mexicans to evaluate their...
Mexicans, since national independence, have defined their challenges as problems or dimensions in their lives. They have faced these issues alone or w...
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165,06 zł |