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The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation
ISBN: 9780822324584 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades.
Focusing on Mayan elites in the community of Quetzaltenango,... Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this vi...
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439,01 zł |
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Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands
ISBN: 9780822326243 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is exciting to have a translation of these important early documents finally available. Feldman is widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars in Central American ethnohistoric studies. His grasp of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish and paleography is superior, his translations are accurate and faithful to the documents while being understandable to the nonspecialist, and the amount of cultural, geographic, and economic information contained in these documents is amazing."--Karen Olsen Bruhns, San Francisco State University
"It is exciting to have a translation of these important early documents finally available. Feldman is widely regarded as one of the foremost scholars...
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102,39 zł |
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Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples: Spanish Explorations of the South East Maya Lowlands
ISBN: 9780822326304 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. "Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples" is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great "Ocean Sea" and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize.
In these narratives--primary documents written by missionaries and conquistadors--vivid details of these little known Mayan cultures are revealed, answering how and why... Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. "Lost Shores, Fo...
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443,88 zł |
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
ISBN: 9780822333685 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. new in paperback
Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala s thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were disappeared ) at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, the story begins in 1993, when the author decides to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation s manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden... new in paperback
Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemal... |
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100,84 zł |
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The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822333722 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a biosphere laid waste by deforestation and urban blight; and an egalitarian, middle-class society blissfully immune to the violent class and racial conflicts that have haunted the region. Arguing that conceptions of Costa Rica as a happy anomaly downplay its rich heritage and diverse population, "The Costa Rica Reader" brings together texts and artwork that reveal the complexity of the country s...
Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictato...
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117,02 zł |
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The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9780822333869 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a biosphere laid waste by deforestation and urban blight; and an egalitarian, middle-class society blissfully immune to the violent class and racial conflicts that have haunted the region. Arguing that conceptions of Costa Rica as a happy anomaly downplay its rich heritage and diverse population, "The Costa Rica Reader" brings together texts and artwork that reveal the complexity of the country s...
Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictato...
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468,27 zł |
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Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule
ISBN: 9780822336471 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid-nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912-33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded historians of Latin America: that Nicaraguans so strongly embraced U.S. political, economic, and cultural forms to defend their own nationality against U.S. imposition and that the country's wealthiest...
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in ...
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156,09 zł |
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An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914
ISBN: 9780822957003 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides archival research on the agrarian history of El Salvador during the 19th century, a period of expanding commercial and export agriculture which saw the emergence of important conflicts over land tenure use in much of Latin America.
This text provides archival research on the agrarian history of El Salvador during the 19th century, a period of expanding commercial and export agric...
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251,34 zł |
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Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan
ISBN: 9780822959441 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mayan rebels killed an American plantation manager in 1875, but no one has ever unravelled why this murder took place. Paul Sullivan's fascinating and skillful telling of this story reads like a mystery novel.
Mayan rebels killed an American plantation manager in 1875, but no one has ever unravelled why this murder took place. Paul Sullivan's fascinating and...
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230,80 zł |
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Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory
ISBN: 9780826336040 / Angielski / Miękka / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. Armed mostly with machetes and a few guns, they attacked military garrisons, occupied towns, and looted or destroyed businesses, government buildings and private homes. In response, the army and local paramilitary bands killed thousands of citizens in a few days, most of them innocent of any involvement in the rebellion. Recalled as a massacre, the government's actions are regarded as one of the most extreme cases of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history. The "Matanza" left... In January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. Armed mostly with machetes and a few guns, they attacked ... |
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136,53 zł |
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From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State, and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839
ISBN: 9780826339096 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of the city--as an institution, as a political ideal, as a training ground for politicians--has been neglected in historical studies of Spanish American independence. Connecting the political changes of the Bourbon Reforms (1759-1788) and constitutional monarchy (1808-1821) to those of the independence era (1821-1839), Jordana Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces (weak administrative districts with ambiguous political identities and divided interiors) into...
The role of the city--as an institution, as a political ideal, as a training ground for politicians--has been neglected in historical studies of Spani...
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204,87 zł |
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In Search of Providence : Transnational Mayan Identities
ISBN: 9780826515803 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, the author followed the migration paths of a community of K'iche' Indians, often acting as a courier to bring news and photographs to families. As several said to the author, -Now you have lived with your own skin what we have gone through, only you can leave at any time.-
Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, the author followed the migration paths of a community of K'ic...
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545,52 zł |
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In Search of Providence : Transnational Mayan Identities
ISBN: 9780826515810 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, the author followed the migration paths of a community of K'iche' Indians, often acting as a courier to bring news and photographs to families. As several said to the author, -Now you have lived with your own skin what we have gone through, only you can leave at any time.-
Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, the author followed the migration paths of a community of K'ic...
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221,82 zł |
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Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944
ISBN: 9780842025904 / Angielski / Miękka / 4 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96 per cent of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad.
The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and...
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180,47 zł |
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The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military in Latin America
ISBN: 9780842026116 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region's countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corruption, instability, economic uncertainty, and other excesses of democracy? The editors of this work, Brian Loveman and Thomas M. Davies, Jr., argue that with or without direct military rule, antipolitics persists as a foundation of Latin American politics. This study examines the origins of...
Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region's countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian governm...
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204,87 zł |
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Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Market, State and the Revolutions in Central America
ISBN: 9780853459033 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,25 zł |
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The Pacification of Central America: Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987-1993
ISBN: 9780860916482 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide to the politics and recent history of Central America opens with an overview of pacification and democracy in the region. Dunkerley focuses on the causes and consequences of the ending of civil war in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Drawing on a range of local and international sources, the author stresses the variety of means by which peace has been sought and achieved. He also analyzes economic performance, relations with the US, refugee and human rights problems, narcotics and corruption, and the issue of war crimes.
This guide to the politics and recent history of Central America opens with an overview of pacification and democracy in the region. Dunkerley focuses...
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71,83 zł |
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Power in the Isthmus
ISBN: 9780860919124 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of the political history of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.
An analysis of the political history of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.
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192,49 zł |
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Ceramics and Artifacts from Excavations in the Copan Residential Zone
ISBN: 9780873652063 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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302,68 zł |
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Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala
ISBN: 9780873656870 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 and the results of many years of subsequent data analysis. The volumes also report on explorations in the peripheral settlements outside of the Seibal center and provide a regional view of the evolution of lowland Maya culture from the Middle and...
Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the G...
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261,61 zł |
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