Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - General

Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat--mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural,...

Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This...

Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This...

Entfuhrungen, Folter und grausame Morde. In den 1970er Jahren wurde die Operation Condor zum Inbegriff des Staatsterrorismus in Sudamerika. Das Werk analysiert auf der Grundlage von Quellen aus chilenischen und amerikanischen Archiven Aufbau und Funktionsweisen des Geheimdienstnetzwerkes und untersucht die Rolle des chilenischen Diktators Augusto Pinochet, der den Mord am ehemaligen chilenischen Auenminister Orlando Letelier im Herzen der amerikanischen Hauptstadt Washington D.C. im September 1976 in Auftrag gab.

Cuba has long been a social policy pioneer in Latin America. Since the 1959 revolution, its government has developed ambitious social policies to address health care, higher education, employment, the environment, and broad social inequalities, among other priorities. Cuban strategies emphasized universal rights and benefits, provided free of financial cost to users, and implemented under centralized and unitary policy design.

Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, funds for these policies came under strain, although systematic efforts have been made to sustain them. Poverty...

Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as "minorities" obscures the...

The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people. The colonizers' intent was to homogenize these cultures and make all of them "Indian." The creation of those new identities is the subject of the essays collected in Diaz's To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America. Focusing on central Mexico and the Andes (colonial New Spain and Peru), the contributors deepen scholarly knowledge of colonial history and literature, emphasizing the different ways people became and lived their lives as...

Nos enfrentamos a la complicada tarea de analizar algunas de las mas relevantes leyes canonicas de los Sinodos diocesanos de Lima de 1582, 1584 y 1585. El fin no es otro que comprobar si, y hasta donde, estas han sido instrumentos utiles al servicio de la Justicia social, especialmente, a favor de la comunidad indigena. La optica desde la cual ejecutaremos dicho analisis seran los principios de Justicia social formulados por John Rawls, en su celebre obra A Theory of Justice. La duda a solventar, en que medida tales normas han cooperado al desarrollo de la justicia en la sociedad...