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Issues in the Spanish-Speaking World
ISBN: 9780313319747 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanish language classes now have a reference source to encourage critical thinking and debate important, current topics in Spain, Mexico, and the rest of Latin and South America. "Issues in the Spanish-Speaking World" offers 14 original and engaging chapters, each introducing a major issue in the headlines and providing pro and con positions for student debate, papers, and class presentations. Highlights include the Basque question, indigenous rights, the Christopher Columbus controversy, bullfighting, and the war on drugs in Colombia. Each chapter concludes with a Resource Guide and... Spanish language classes now have a reference source to encourage critical thinking and debate important, current topics in Spain, Mexico, and the ... |
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248,54 zł |
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Troubled Harvest: Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002
ISBN: 9780313325151 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to address the problems of rural poverty and underdevelopment. The Mexican Revolution led to a significant agrarian reform and created the State and elite that governed Mexico since the 1920s. The Green Revolution helped increase Mexican agricultural production substantially, and in 1970 it won a Nobel Peace Prize for Norman Borlaug, who bred dwarf hybrid wheat. Mexican agronomists played significant roles in both revolutions, but neither... During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to ... |
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386,61 zł |
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Hot Spot: Latin America
ISBN: 9780313336614 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, and revolutionary movements simmering or raging in every region of Latin America. In-depth, comprehensive chapters explore drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil, and political instability, including: The Zapatista Rebellion, the Darien Gap controversy, Evo Morales, Shining Path ("Sendero Luminoso") and Tupac Amaru, the Falklands, and Guantanamo Bay. From border crime in Mexico to... From border crime in Mexico to Chavez's revolution in Venezuela, this volume presents up-to-the-minute coverage of the key conflicts, corruption, a... |
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276,15 zł |
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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America: Volume 3: Industrialization and the State in Latin America: The Postwar Years
ISBN: 9780333633427 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period. This book attempts a fresh look at the controversial years between the end of the Second World War and the point when, at varying dates in different countries, a discontinuity occurs in which the postwar 'style of development' ceased to play a central role in the economic evolution of the region. The analysis is based on seven case studies covering eleven countries.
In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development...
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390,87 zł |
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Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy
ISBN: 9780333998717 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last 15 years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes pose fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship, and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights, and social justice.
During the last 15 years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue t...
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390,87 zł |
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Latin American Religion in Motion
ISBN: 9780415921060 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines some of the more important new analyses and discoveries about religious movements in Latin America.
This book examines some of the more important new analyses and discoveries about religious movements in Latin America.
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230,81 zł |
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The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
ISBN: 9780415928793 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Mestizo is a person of mixed blood - specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Historian Serge Gruzinski here offers a critique of colonization and globalization. Looking at the 15th century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the melange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture, a new individual and a phenomenon we now call globalization.
A Mestizo is a person of mixed blood - specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Historian Serge Gruzinski here offers a ...
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173,09 zł |
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Latin America's Neo-Reformation: Religion's Influence on Contemporary Politics
ISBN: 9780415949729 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behaviour of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?
The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specific...
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813,27 zł |
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Life in Mexico
ISBN: 9780520046627 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico-from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help-Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.
Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico-from her travels with her husband through Mex...
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213,91 zł |
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History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780520082748 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil. Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World.
When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to ...
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149,12 zł |
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From the Fat of Our Souls: Social Change, Political Process, and Medical Pluralism in Boliviavolume 26
ISBN: 9780520084308 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and Protestants, peasants and professionals in the rural town of Kachitu, Libbet Crandon-Malamud finds that medical choice is based not on medical efficacy but on political concerns. Through the primary resource of medicine, people have access to secondary resources, the principal one being...
From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan...
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201,68 zł |
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Mexico: A Brief History
ISBN: 9780520244917 / Angielski / Miękka / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period and ending with the latest democratic developments of the twenty-first century, this definitive one-volume history of Mexico analyzes the ways that economic, social, and political dynamics have interacted to shape the nation's past. Alicia Hernandez Chavez takes into account new historiography--which is fully integrated with anthropology, political science, economics, and international relations--to present an original and fresh interpretation of the structures and processes that determined the country's evolution. Based on the latest sources in both...
Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period and ending with the latest democratic developments of the twenty-first century, this definitive one-volume hist...
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165,69 zł |
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Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890 1950
ISBN: 9780521034791 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution.
Explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution.
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244,25 zł |
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Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620
ISBN: 9780521523141 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at the time of first contact with Europeans, this book, first published in 1982, was the first to make a thorough examination of the question. Focusing on Peru, Professor Cook estimates population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation ratios, and census projection. He also analyses the catastrophic population decline that resulted from contact with Europeans, and compares this experience with that of the coastal region and the...
While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at the time of first contact with Europeans, this book, ...
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223,46 zł |
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Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524 1821
ISBN: 9780521527125 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The parish was the fundamental ecclesiastical institution brought by Spain to the New World, and perhaps even the principal instrument of empire. This pioneering study traces the origins and development of the parishes of a single Central American diocese from conquest to independence. Drawing widely on Guatemalan archive sources, it presents a detailed picture of the colonial church at parish level. During the eighteenth century almost all regular parishes were secularized. This brought to an end the ecclesiastical state within a state: a republic of priests and Indians. Although the Crown...
The parish was the fundamental ecclesiastical institution brought by Spain to the New World, and perhaps even the principal instrument of empire. This...
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280,63 zł |
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Latin America: Economy and Society Since 1930
ISBN: 9780521593939 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America spanning the five hundred years between the late fifteenth century and the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930. This will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America.
The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America spanning the five hundred years between ...
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234,95 zł |
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Latin America: Economy and Society Since 1930
ISBN: 9780521595711 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America spanning the five hundred years between the late fifteenth century and the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930. This will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America.
The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America spanning the five hundred years between ...
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170,28 zł |
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The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America: Volume 2, the Long Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780521812900 / Angielski / Twarda / 766 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume Two treats the "long twentieth century" from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. After analyzing the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth up to 1930, it explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Finally, it looks at the long term trends in capital flows, agriculture and the environment.
Volume Two treats the "long twentieth century" from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. After analyzing the principal dimensions of La...
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935,82 zł |
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An Environmental History of Latin America
ISBN: 9780521848534 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more...
This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian ci...
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379,10 zł |
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Immokalee's Fields of Hope
ISBN: 9780595316540 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Immokalee's Fields of Hope" is a story of Mexican, Haitian, and Guatemalan immigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteering with children. With compassion and understanding, Carlene Thissen shares the personal stories the immigrants told her, framed with the political and social histories of their countries.
Beginning with family memories of her own German and Irish grandparents, she captures the struggles, hopes, and dreams of people who just want to work and make a better life. Carlene offers the opportunity to stretch out and truly visualize the plights of... "Immokalee's Fields of Hope" is a story of Mexican, Haitian, and Guatemalan immigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteer...
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95,88 zł |
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