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New Frontiers of Slavery
ISBN: 9781438458632 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century. By treating slavery within the framework of the modern world economy, they call attention to new zones of slave production that were formed as part of processes of global economic and political restructuring. Chapters by a group of international historians, economists, and sociologists examine both the global dynamics of the new slavery, and various aspects of economy-society and master-slave relations in the new zones....
The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic slavery during ...
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371,49 |
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Allies or Enemies: Political Relations Between Spain and Great Britain During the Reign of Ferdinand VII (1808-1833)
ISBN: 9783631627143 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanish-British relations changed during the first three decades of the 19th century. Both states emerged victorious from the Napoleonic wars and were united by the alliance, but their respective strength was totally different. While Great Britain enhanced its status as a sea power, strong enough to affect the political situation in Europe, Spain sank to the rank of a secondary state. Britain, protecting clearly defined interests, carried out long-term and rational policy. Spain s policy was inconsistent and it could not be treated as a reliable ally in spite of its considerable economic...
Spanish-British relations changed during the first three decades of the 19th century. Both states emerged victorious from the Napoleonic wars and were...
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513,02 |
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Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present
ISBN: 9781440841682 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latinos make up a vibrant, expanding, and extremely diverse population with a history of being in the Americas that dates back to the early 16th century. Today, Latinos represent the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, yet the history of Latinos is largely unknown to the wider nation. This book tells the larger "story" of Latinos in the United States and describes how they represent a breadth of ethnicities, addressing not only those in very large numbers from countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and El Salvador, but also Latino people from Peru, Argentina,... Latinos make up a vibrant, expanding, and extremely diverse population with a history of being in the Americas that dates back to the early 16th ce... |
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179,34 |
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Latin America, Economic Imperialism and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present
ISBN: 9781474241625 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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768,60 |
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Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru
ISBN: 9780822323327 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates multiple meanings of Roman Catholic feast of Corpus Christi as it was performed in the Andean city of Cuzco after its conquest and occupation by Spanish colonisers. This title explores how the festival celebrated the victory of the Christian God over sin and death, and triumph of Christian orthodoxy over the imperial Inka patron.
Investigates multiple meanings of Roman Catholic feast of Corpus Christi as it was performed in the Andean city of Cuzco after its conquest and occupa...
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477,05 |
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The New War on the Poor: The Production of Insecurity in Latin America
ISBN: 9781783603039 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While governments and the media present the often violent, repressive actions of governments as something wholly distinct from and certainly better than the actions of criminals, to those who suffer the consequences of the contemporary public security state, the difference isn t always so clear.
InThe New War on the Poor, John Gledhill presents that perspective, linking the experiences of labor migrants crossing Latin America s international borders; indigenous Mexicans defending their territories against capitalist mega-projects, drug wars, and paramilitary violence;... While governments and the media present the often violent, repressive actions of governments as something wholly distinct from and certainly better th...
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413,76 |
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The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil
ISBN: 9780813062556 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created the beautiful game. Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
Compellingly shows how each segment of Brazilian society players, club owners, and spectators, especially the usually neglected female fans was touched by the sport that it eventually came to proudly embrace as... Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a nationa...
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326,14 |
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The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part I Vol 1
ISBN: 9781138757677 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to 1764.
This first part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America....
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730,17 |
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Defining the Caymanian Identity: The Effects of Globalization, Economics, and Xenophobia on Caymanian Culture
ISBN: 9780739190050 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defining the Caymanian Identity analyzes the factions and schisms surging throughout the multicultural, multi-ethnic, and polarized Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. In the modern world where Caymanian traditions have all but been eclipsed, or forgotten, often due to incoming, overpowering cultural sensibilities, it is a challenge to know where traditional Caymanian culture begins and modern Caymanian culture ends. With this idea in mind, Christopher A. Williams investigates the pervasive effects of globalization, multiculturalism, economics, and xenophobia on...
Defining the Caymanian Identity analyzes the factions and schisms surging throughout the multicultural, multi-ethnic, and polarized Cayman Islands to ...
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477,05 |
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The Globalization of Contentious Politics: The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement
ISBN: 9781138975279 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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243,34 |
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Distant Alliances: Gender and Education in Latin America
ISBN: 9781138990807 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,06 |
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Human Rights in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua: A Sociological Perspective on Human Rights Abuse
ISBN: 9781138972117 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a historical perspective on patterns of human rights abuse in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua and incorporates international relations in to the traditional theories of state repression found within the social sciences.
This book presents a historical perspective on patterns of human rights abuse in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua and incorporates international relati...
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233,60 |
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Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ISBN: 9780582497214 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the "Studies in Modern History" series, this text examines the relationship between Latin America and Britain during the 19th- and 20th-centuries.
Part of the "Studies in Modern History" series, this text examines the relationship between Latin America and Britain during the 19th- and 20th-centur...
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257,94 |
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The Latino/a American Dream
ISBN: 9781623493899 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Dream means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility.
Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of Latinos in their quest for the American Dream. The Latino/a American Dream asks many timely questions, including: how do Latino/as view the American Dream? Has the recent economic downturn affected their hopes of achieving the Dream? What about recent... The American Dream means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosper...
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165,50 |
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Sergio Ramírez, Rubén Darío Y La Literatura Nicaragüense
ISBN: 9780990919131 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En este libro se realiza un recorrido por la obra del nicaraguense Sergio Ramirez, desde sus textos de inicio, cuentos y ensayos, hasta sus obras publicadas en 2004. Se analiza en ellos su espesura politica y literaria, a la vez que se estudia como incorpora la figura de Ruben Dario, en tanto simbolo cultural popular en Nicaragua. La figura del poeta le permite edificar un discurso para la imaginacion de la nacion y atraviesa en gran parte la obra. Ramirez se autofigura como continuador de Dario en cuanto a la elaboracion de una literatura nicaraguense y en cuanto a profundizar su...
En este libro se realiza un recorrido por la obra del nicaraguense Sergio Ramirez, desde sus textos de inicio, cuentos y ensayos, hasta sus obras publ...
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116,78 |
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Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940
ISBN: 9780822310693 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,60 |
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The Burden of the Ancients: Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-Columbian Period to the Present
ISBN: 9781477310267 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, death, and rebirth. Traditional Maya believe that human beings perpetuate this cycle through ritual offerings and ceremonies that have the power to rebirth the world at critical points during the calendar year. The most elaborate ceremonies take place during Semana Santa (Holy Week), the days preceding Easter on the Christian calendar, during which traditionalist Maya replicate many of the most important world-renewing rituals that their ancient... In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, de... |
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116,78 |
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The Burden of the Ancients: Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-Columbian Period to the Present
ISBN: 9781477309957 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, death, and rebirth. Traditional Maya believe that human beings perpetuate this cycle through ritual offerings and ceremonies that have the power to rebirth the world at critical points during the calendar year. The most elaborate ceremonies take place during Semana Santa (Holy Week), the days preceding Easter on the Christian calendar, during which traditionalist Maya replicate many of the most important world-renewing rituals that their ancient... In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, de... |
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365,09 |
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Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations
ISBN: 9781783602926 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translating the Queer examines how concepts of queer knowledge and its representations have been disseminated throughout Latin America, a dissemination that has been accompanied by processes of translation, adaptation, and resistance. Hector Dominguez Ruvalcaba discusses the formation of pre-gay identities as well as today's LGBTQI political movement in addition to alternative forms of non-heterosexual practices that have emerged from within marginal populations. He analyzes how queer theory is employed as a means to understand varied cultural and political expressions, and he asks:...
Translating the Queer examines how concepts of queer knowledge and its representations have been disseminated throughout Latin America, a disse...
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102,43 |
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Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations
ISBN: 9781783602933 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translating the Queer examines how concepts of queer knowledge and its representations have been disseminated throughout Latin America, a dissemination that has been accompanied by processes of translation, adaptation, and resistance. Hector Dominguez Ruvalcaba discusses the formation of pre-gay identities as well as today s LGBTQI political movement in addition to alternative forms of non-heterosexual practices that have emerged from within marginal populations. He analyzes how queer theory is employed as a means to understand varied cultural and political expressions, and he asks:...
Translating the Queer examines how concepts of queer knowledge and its representations have been disseminated throughout Latin America, a disse...
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435,54 |
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