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Go home: Intervenciones de la CIA y los Marines en America Latina
ISBN: 9781502497932 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Desde su independencia, los Estados Unidos de America han demostrado una permanente vocacion expansionista. Liberada del mercantilismo britanico en 1776, la gran nacion del norte establecio una politica de ocupaciones y anexiones territoriales que unas veces tuvieron el respaldo legal de una "compra" y otras, la justificacion de una amenaza para la seguridad de sus propias fronteras."
Desde su independencia, los Estados Unidos de America han demostrado una permanente vocacion expansionista. Liberada del mercantilismo britanico en 17...
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Ritual of the Bicabs: A Book of Maya Incantations
ISBN: 9780806111216 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Roys has provided anthropologists, student of linguistics, and historians with an exceptional study of interest and value." The Americas "It deserves to rank with Popol Vuh and The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel as the greatest of Maya documents yet published." Journal of the West The Mayas believed the four gods, the Bacabs, held up the sky. The Bacabs were also invoked to heal disease. Ritual of the Bacabs: A Book of Maya Incantations is the first English translation of this Maya manuscript, dating back to colonial times. Discovered in the early twentieth century, the manuscript's...
"Roys has provided anthropologists, student of linguistics, and historians with an exceptional study of interest and value." The Americas "It deserves...
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Historical Dictionary of Panama
ISBN: 9780810878341 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Historical Dictionary of Panama covers Panama's unique history from the time of its Spanish colonization, through its connection to Colombia in the nineteenth century, and its long period of U.S. presence. Throughout these periods, Panama drew the outside world's attention as a transit route that first connected the west coasts of Latin America and the United States to Western Europe. Thus, in the long history of the isthmus, its transit route has served to move cargo, people, and culture throughout the world. The rich history of Panama is covered through a chronology, an introductory...
This Historical Dictionary of Panama covers Panama's unique history from the time of its Spanish colonization, through its connection to Colombia in t...
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Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity: Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History
ISBN: 9780826355799 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the...
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, create...
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Un Ayer en Pedazos
ISBN: 9789929651203 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novela, basada en hechos reales, que relata la historia de un personaje que, afectado por el conflicto armado interno de Guatemala (guerra civil) inicia su entendimiento de lo sucedido en un proceso que dejo mas de 200,000 muertos y miles mas de desaparecidos en un periodo de 36 anos, contando en el proceso dos casos impactantes que tocan a la iglesia catolica y al gobierno central de Guatemala."
Novela, basada en hechos reales, que relata la historia de un personaje que, afectado por el conflicto armado interno de Guatemala (guerra civil) inic...
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Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9780773545267 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant Maya culture they encountered was not obliterated and, though subjected to considerable duress from the sixteenth century on, endures to this day. This fourth edition of George Lovell s classic work incorporates new data and recent research findings and emphasizes native resistance and...
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier re...
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Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9780773545274 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant Maya culture they encountered was not obliterated and, though subjected to considerable duress from the sixteenth century on, endures to this day. This fourth edition of George Lovell s classic work incorporates new data and recent research findings and emphasizes native resistance and...
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier re...
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Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
ISBN: 9781463652500 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fe' in Mani where in addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act deprived future generations of a huge body of Mayan literature. He culturally impoverished the descendents of the Mayas, and left only four codices for scholars to puzzle over. The document translated here is de Landa's apology, and one of the few remaining contemporary texts which describe pre-conquest Mayan society, science, and art in detail. As such it must be read in context. The translator and editor, the distinguished Americanist William Gates,...
In 1562, de Landa conducted an 'Auto de fe' in Mani where in addition to 5000 'idols, ' he burned 27 books in Maya writing. This one act deprived futu...
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Escritos Testimoniales de Alfonso Valle Candia.: Genealogia e Iconografia
ISBN: 9781500957667 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La presente obra es una recopilacion de los escritos publicados por el Geneal e Ingeniero Don Alfonso Valle Candia. Fue protagonista de muchos hechos historicos de una epoca importante en la historia de Nicaragua, en lo militar y en lo politico. Sus ideas eran liberales, pertenecio al Partido Liberal, sus ancestros tambien lo fueron y sus antepasados eran de estirpe militar de generacion en generacion. Tuvo tres hijos militares, su padre y su abuelo fueron tambien militares que participaron en importantes eventos de la historia de Nicaragua y sus relaciones con los paises vecinos de Centro...
La presente obra es una recopilacion de los escritos publicados por el Geneal e Ingeniero Don Alfonso Valle Candia. Fue protagonista de muchos hechos ...
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Cuentos de la Montaña: Stories from the Mountain
ISBN: 9781505812879 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book collects the oral histories of the villages surrounding Escuela de la Montana, a Spanish language immersion school in the mountains outside Colomba, Guatemala."
This book collects the oral histories of the villages surrounding Escuela de la Montana, a Spanish language immersion school in the mountains outside ...
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Priest Under Fire: Padre David Rodríguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador's Revolutionary Movement
ISBN: 9780813061191 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A valuable book that goes beyond the specifics of one priest s life to provide insight into the Salvadoran civil war. Arthur Leigh Binford, coeditor of Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador
The fascinating story of Father David Rodriguez sheds light on half a century of El Salvador s troubled history and helps to understand the impact of liberation theology. Hector Lindo-Fuentes, coauthor of Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960 1980 Documents Rodriguez s life an important contribution in and of... A valuable book that goes beyond the specifics of one priest s life to provide insight into the Salvadoran civil war. Arthur Leigh Binford, coeditor o...
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Sandino: The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934
ISBN: 9780691637471 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Washington is called the father of his country; the same may be said of Bol var and Hidalgo; but I am only a bandit, according to the yardstick by which the strong and the weak are measured."--Augusto C. Sandino. For the first time in English, here are the impassioned words of the remarkable Nicaraguan hero and martyr Augusto C. Sandino, for whom the recent revolutionary regime was named. From 1927 until 1933 American Marines fought a bitter jungle war in Nicaragua, with Sandino as their guerrilla foe. This artisan and farmer turned soldier was an unexpectedly formidable military... "Washington is called the father of his country; the same may be said of Bol var and Hidalgo; but I am only a bandit, according to the yardstick by... |
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For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
ISBN: 9780816531875 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to apply medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox, new...
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for wides...
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For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
ISBN: 9780816531882 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to apply medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox, new...
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for wides...
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Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico
ISBN: 9781479855599 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them, - confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make themselves sexually available to men and where same-sex experiences for both men and women bring great shame, incest is easily hidden, seldom...
-My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them, - confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she...
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Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico
ISBN: 9781479869138 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them, - confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make themselves sexually available to men and where same-sex experiences for both men and women bring great shame, incest is easily hidden, seldom...
-My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them, - confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she...
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Expulsión, Extinción Y Restauración de Los Jesuitas En Venezuela, 1767-1815
ISBN: 9789807088701 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 634 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esta obra de Jose Del Rey Fajardo, S.J., profesor de la Universidad Catolica Andres Bello de Caracas, Venezuela y Primer Director de la Academia Nacional de la Historia, sobre la Expulsion, extincion y restauracion de los Jesuitas en Venezuela 1767-1815, estudia la tragica y a la vez aleccionadora trilogia (pasion, muerte y resurreccion) que escribio la Compania de Jesus de Venezuela y Colombia en un escaso medio siglo durante el cual se produjo el transito del Antiguo al Nuevo Regimen, arrastrada ademas, por el vendaval que tomo forma de huracan con la Revolucion Francesa. Siguiendo la...
Esta obra de Jose Del Rey Fajardo, S.J., profesor de la Universidad Catolica Andres Bello de Caracas, Venezuela y Primer Director de la Academia Nacio...
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Black Christ of Esquipulas: Religion and Identity in Guatemala
ISBN: 9780803268432 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New Mexico to Panama. Beyond being a site of popular devotion, however, the Black Christ of Esquipulas was also the scene of important debates about citizenship and identity in the Guatemalan nation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In The Black Christ of Esquipulas, Douglass...
On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depic...
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The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late-Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua
ISBN: 9780822322559 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of subaltern Nicaraguans. Drawing on the works and words of artisans and artisanas, Indians, and mestizos, Field critiques the national ideology of ethnic homogeneity and analyzes the new forms of social movement that have distinguished late-twentieth-century Nicaragua. As a framework for these analytic discussions, Field uses the colonial-era play El Gueguence o Macho Raton and the literature relating to it.
Elite appropriations of El... In this creative ethnography Les W. Field challenges a post-Sandinista national conception of identity, one that threatens to constrict the future of ...
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475,09 |
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Camilo Cienfuegos y la invasión.: Rumbo a occidente
ISBN: 9781514136515 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Camilo Cienfuegos y la invasion: Este libro pretendia revisar y organizar todos los documentos historicos de la epopeya de la invasion protagonizada por las tropas del Che Guevara y Camilo Cienfuegos, epopeya en la cual el autor participo directamente, como capitan medico y bajo las ordenes de Camilo. Sergio del Valle no fue un escritor de profesion, toda su obra fue comandada y realizada como funcionario del gobierno cubano, para brindar su experiencia en aquellos periodos de la historia de la revolucion de los cuales fue testigo. Este es el caso del presente documento en que trabajo en los...
Camilo Cienfuegos y la invasion: Este libro pretendia revisar y organizar todos los documentos historicos de la epopeya de la invasion protagonizada p...
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