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He Made Something Beautiful: A Spiritual Movement That Changed A Nation
ISBN: 9780997487800 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Immigration and National Identities in Latin America
ISBN: 9780813054025 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This groundbreaking study examines the connection between what are arguably the two most distinguishing phenomena of the modern world: the unprecedented surges in global mobility and in the creation of politically bounded spaces and identities."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers "An excellent collection of studies connecting transnational migration to the construction of national identities. Highly recommended."--Luis Roniger, author of Transnational Politics in Central America "The importance of this collection goes beyond the confines of one geographic...
"This groundbreaking study examines the connection between what are arguably the two most distinguishing phenomena of the modern world: the unpreceden...
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The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
ISBN: 9781583673409 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part of the U.S. government s ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their harmful impact on the Cuban people. In this concise and sober account, Salim...
It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fif...
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The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
ISBN: 9781583673416 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part of the U.S. government s ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their harmful impact on the Cuban people. In this concise and sober account, Salim...
It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fif...
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409,82 |
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Address to the Venezuelan Congress at Angostura: February 15, 1819
ISBN: 9781107628618 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1923, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the complete text of Simon Bolivar's address before the Venezuelan Congress at Angostura on February 15, 1819. The address is presented in Spanish with a short editorial introduction in English. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Bolivar and South American history."
Originally published in 1923, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the complete text of Simon Bolivar's address before th...
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132,84 |
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Enlightened Rule; Portraits of Six Exceptional Twentieth Century Premiers
ISBN: 9783034302715 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twentieth century has been called an age of catastrophe, characterized by devastating wars and a general poverty of leadership at government level. This book, written in a more optimistic vein, offers biographical essays on six twentieth century heads of government three from Latin America, and one each from Africa, Asia and Europe who were exceptions to the norm. During their terms of office each displayed admirable qualities: moral authority, integrity, an egalitarian spirit, and a firm commitment to democracy, human rights, social justice and international peace. They shunned...
The twentieth century has been called an age of catastrophe, characterized by devastating wars and a general poverty of leadership at government level...
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Woman as Witness: Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women
ISBN: 9780820463247 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom writing of the 1980s and 1990s; women have successfully assimilated this form and currently dominate the testimonial genre in Latin America. The essays in this volume provide an orientation to the woman-centered view of this genre by inquiring into the critical and theoretical debate on the subject as well as analyzing specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American women s testimonial texts. Woman as Witness also includes...
Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom...
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340,39 |
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Spaces of Representation: The Struggle for Social Justice in Postwar Guatemala
ISBN: 9780820476117 / Angielski / Twarda / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spaces of Representation: The Struggle for Social Justice in Postwar Guatemala juxtaposes a variety of contemporary Guatemalan discourses literary fiction, testimonio, historical and political documents, and popular drama calling into question such notions as truth, clarification, memory, and storytelling in the representation of human experience. It analyzes these texts in an effort to further a broader understanding of the dynamic social tensions that continue to exist in Guatemala despite the signing of the 1996 Peace Accords. This book illuminates the contemporary cultural...
Spaces of Representation: The Struggle for Social Justice in Postwar Guatemala juxtaposes a variety of contemporary Guatemalan discourses liter...
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304,80 |
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Mexican Travel Writing
ISBN: 9783039110209 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of...
This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often exp...
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329,46 |
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Economic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capital in a Developing Country: The Case of Guatemala
ISBN: 9783631526071 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can education play a role in fostering economic growth and simultaneously decrease pressure on forests? The aim of this study is to show that it can. Human capital formation is a key element in a development strategy that includes natural resource conservation within the framework of sustained economic growth and poverty alleviation. Consequently, it is not by chance that Guatemala is experiencing both minimal per capital income growth and high deforestation while having one of the lowest educational levels in Latin America. However, since many assumptions about educational benefits are...
Can education play a role in fostering economic growth and simultaneously decrease pressure on forests? The aim of this study is to show that it can. ...
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330,23 |
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Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9780820434797 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach presents a broad perspective of Latin America and highlights its major events, issues, and political, social, and economic changes. The book contains articles written by expert scholars representing different disciplines. The contributions included in the volume serve as an excellent starting point for students, scholars, and professionals interested in furthering their knowledge of Latin America.
Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach presents a broad perspective of Latin America and highlights its major events, issues, and politic...
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185,83 |
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Representing the Unrepresentable: Literature of Trauma Under Pinochet in Chile
ISBN: 9780820456775 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile infringed on human rights and engaged in torture, killing, and persecution. Although strict censorship under his regime limited literary representation, testimonial works by survivors and witnesses serve as an informant of the trauma inflicted upon the Chilean people. Representing the Unrepresentable: Literature of Trauma under Pinochet in Chile presents some of these works, opening the path to a new understanding of alternative representation of history its sociopolitical perspective and role in society today."
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile infringed on human rights and engaged in torture, killing, and persecution. Although strict censorship under his re...
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309,89 |
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Die Entdeckung Amerikas Und Die Entstehung Der Moderne
ISBN: 9783631311141 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Buch hat sich zur Aufgabe gestellt, die Dialektik der Entstehung eines -Modernen Weltsystems- und der Heraufkunft der Moderne nachzuzeichnen. Dabei zeigt der Autor, dass die mittelalterliche Expansion Europas im Kontext des Feudalsystems erfolgte. Es ist aber auch dieses System, in dessen Rahmen sich die ersten Ansatze der europaischen Moderne, d.h. der Ubergang von einer kollektiven zur Ich-Identitat abzeichnen. Abaelard, Thomas v. Aquin und Wilhelm von Ockam sind die Denker des Mittelalters, an Hand derer der Autor diese Bewegung nachzeichnet. Zuletzt wird gezeigt, dass entscheidende...
Das Buch hat sich zur Aufgabe gestellt, die Dialektik der Entstehung eines -Modernen Weltsystems- und der Heraufkunft der Moderne nachzuzeichnen. Dabe...
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350,56 |
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Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett's Travelogue of 1868
ISBN: 9781617038327 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied behind the Confederate cause, serving with distinction in the Confederate Army. After the war some of Swett's peers from Mississippi and other southern states invited him to explore the possibility of settling in British Honduras or the Republic of Honduras. Confederates in the Tropics uses Swett's 1868 travelogue to explore the motives of would-be Confederate migrants' fleeing defeat and Reconstruction in the United States South. The... Charles Swett (1828-1910) was a prosperous Vicksburg merchant and small plantation owner who was reluctantly drawn into secession but then rallied ... |
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Coloniality, Religion, and the Law in the Early Iberian World
ISBN: 9780826519573 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production. Hispanic Issues Series
Nicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-Chief Hispanic Issues Online hispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spain's empire in ...
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221,24 |
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Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings
ISBN: 9780820463209 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a selection of fourteen provocative and unique essays bringing together the views of exciting new scholarship on narratives and cultural identity in Latin America. In so doing, it balances theory, methodology, and description. The offerings in this volume deliver a clarion mix of original voices and cutting-edge approaches to the exploration of the topics, which reflect diverse perspectives on Latin American culture and literature. The contributions feature analyses of Latin American oral tradition, cultural identity, memory construction, storytelling, literary...
This book presents a selection of fourteen provocative and unique essays bringing together the views of exciting new scholarship on narratives and cul...
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365,81 |
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Voces del Mariel: Historia oral del éxodo cubano de 1980
ISBN: 9781481819190 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Esta es una importante contribucion a las pocas voces del Mariel que hemos escuchado a traves de los anos. Ayuda a desmitificar un exodo que nos trajo a muchos al Sur de la Florida y que continua siendo mal entendido. Es hora que se escuchen las voces del Mariel." Mirta Ojito Autora de El manana: Memorias de un exodo cubano y ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en el ano 2000. -oOo- "Jose Garcia reabre este doloroso acontecimiento de la historia de Cuba y EE.UU. Contado por protagonistas cubanos, este fascinante libro expone informacion de primera mano sobre el alma de los refugiados que...
"Esta es una importante contribucion a las pocas voces del Mariel que hemos escuchado a traves de los anos. Ayuda a desmitificar un exodo que nos traj...
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The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity
ISBN: 9780813049199 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes proves that there was a multitude of factors that sharpen our knowledge of the development of race and nation in the Dominican Republic. Millery Polyne, author of From Douglass to Duvalier A fascinating book. Mayes discusses the roots of anti-Haitianism, the Dominican elite, and the ways in which race and nation have been intertwined in the history of the Dominican Republic. What emerges is a very interesting and engaging social...
Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes p...
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282,33 |
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Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
ISBN: 9781469610887 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.
Cowling examines how women, typically illiterate but with access to scribes, instigated myriad successful... In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipa...
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175,25 |
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Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, & Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
ISBN: 9780826353955 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony--colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing Catholicism, cultural and religious boundaries, and prevailing race and gender hierarchies. The city was also simmering with illegal activity, from contraband trade to prostitution to heretical religious practices. Nicole von Germeten's research uncovers... This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was a... |
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