The Insurrection mounted by the Sendero Luminoso or 'Shining Path' guerrilla movement, sparked one of the most vicious civil wars in Latin American history. This book examines the origins and trajectory of the conflict in the Cajabamba-Huamachuco region, l
The Insurrection mounted by the Sendero Luminoso or 'Shining Path' guerrilla movement, sparked one of the most vicious civil wars in Latin American hi...
The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages'' in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular...
The vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty 'savages'' in the Spanish American nove...
This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon in 1808 and ending immediately after the last royalist contingents were expelled from the island of Chiloe, it does not seek to give a full picture of the participation of military men on the battlefield but rather to interpret their involvement in local politics. In so doing, this book aims to make a contribution to the understanding of Chile's revolution of independence, as well as to discuss some of the most recent historiographical...
This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon i...
