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Dictatorship & Politics: Intrigue, Betrayal, and Survival in Venezuela, 1908-1935
ISBN: 9780268035105 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dictatorship and Politics" presents the first major study of General Juan Vicente Gomez s regime in Venezuela from 1908 to 1935 and the efforts of Gomez s enemies to overthrow him during his twenty-seven years in power. In this reappraisal of the Gomez regime, Brian S. McBeth demonstrates that Gomez s success in withstanding opponents attacks was not only the result of his political acumen and ruthless methods of oppression. The political disagreements, personal rivalries, financial difficulties, occasional harassment by foreign powers, and at times plain bad luck of his opponents,... "Dictatorship and Politics" presents the first major study of General Juan Vicente Gomez s regime in Venezuela from 1908 to 1935 and the efforts of... |
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234,13 |
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I Foresee My Life: The Ritual Performance of Autobiography in an Amazonian Community
ISBN: 9780803222526 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I Foresee My Life is a study of the ritual performances of the Kayabi, a Brazilian indigenous people, during the 1990s. Kayabi rituals are distinct in that they center on the autobiographical narratives of living people. Suzanne Oakdale discusses these autobiographical performances in the context of shamanic cures, mortuary rites, and political oratory. In each ritual, leaders describe how some of the dramatic environmental, economic, and political changes taking place in the Amazon have affected them. For example, the Kayabi have moved from a heavily colonized area to a reservation and as a...
I Foresee My Life is a study of the ritual performances of the Kayabi, a Brazilian indigenous people, during the 1990s. Kayabi rituals are distinct in...
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92,63 |
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Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970-2000
ISBN: 9780801888007 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin America's region-wide 1982 economic collapse had a drastic effect on governments throughout Central and South America, leading many to the verge of failure and pushing several of the most stridently authoritarian--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay--over the brink. Surprisingly though, Chile's repressive military dictatorship and Mexico's hegemonic civilian regime endured amid the economic chaos that rocked the region. Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule explains why the regimes in these two nations survived the financial upheaval of the early 1980s and how each... Latin America's region-wide 1982 economic collapse had a drastic effect on governments throughout Central and South America, leading many to the ve... |
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130,94 |
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Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
ISBN: 9780822341734 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia. Taken together, the case studies offer an intricate portrait of two regions, their industries and workers, and the myriad links between them over the long twentieth century, as well as a new way to conceptualize globalization as a long-term process.
Chomsky examines labor and management at two... Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collabo...
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487,78 |
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Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class
ISBN: 9780822341901 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital. She illuminates the dynamics of these movements through case studies set mostly in New England and Colombia. Taken together, the case studies offer an intricate portrait of two regions, their industries and workers, and the myriad links between them over the long twentieth century, as well as a new way to conceptualize globalization as a long-term process.
Chomsky examines labor and management at two... Exploring globalization from a labor history perspective, Aviva Chomsky provides historically grounded analyses of migration, labor-management collabo...
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151,21 |
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A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro
ISBN: 9780804752909 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bases for modern Brazilian citizenship originated. Between 1930 and 1964, Brazilian law dramatically extended its range and power, and citizenship began to signify real political, economic, and civil rights for common people. And yet, even in Rio de Janeiro--Brazil's national capital until 1960--this process did not include everyone. Rio's poorest residents sought with hope, imagination, and will to claim myriad forms of citizenship as their...
A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional...
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546,32 |
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In the Shadow of Peran: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentinaas Populist Movement
ISBN: 9780804757928 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Populism has been one of the most important phenomena in the political and social history of Latin America. In the Shadow of Peron challenges several commonly held assumptions about the nature of populism and the relations between the charismatic leader and the popular masses. Devoted to the second line of Peronist leadership in Argentina from the 1940s onwards, it focuses on the figure of Juan Atilio Bramuglia, who tried to offer an alternative path for the movement. The volume stresses the heterogeneous nature of Peronism and traces the various ideological sources of its doctrine. It...
Populism has been one of the most important phenomena in the political and social history of Latin America. In the Shadow of Peron challenges s...
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351,20 |
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Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator
ISBN: 9780742556195 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simon Bolivar was without a doubt the most famous and most controversial leader of the Spanish American wars of independence. Much is known of his biography: he led an army that liberated an expanse of South America equivalent to that conquered by Napoleon; crafted the union of Venezuela, New Granada, and Ecuador into the republic of Gran Colombia; outlined the plan for a defensive league of former Spanish-American colonies; and wrote the first Bolivian constitution. He also died in exile after the rejection of his arbitrary and dictatorial rule in Colombia. This volume takes a step back from...
Simon Bolivar was without a doubt the most famous and most controversial leader of the Spanish American wars of independence. Much is known of his bio...
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536,56 |
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A Falklands Diary : Winds of Change in a Distant Colony
ISBN: 9781845117139 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1969, Jean Austin's husband was appointed Colonial Secretary of the Falkland Islands and they were transported to a remote outpost of the British colonies. While there Austin immersed herself in island life, fulfilling the duties of a Colonial Secretary's wife. A Falklands Diary is her sensitive and perceptive memoir of these years. Engaging and illuminating, A Falklands Diary paints a portrait of a mostly static culture defined by its remoteness and barren geography. At the same time, Austin's story reveals how global politics were slowly changing the Falklands'... In 1969, Jean Austin's husband was appointed Colonial Secretary of the Falkland Islands and they were transported to a remote outpost of the Britis... |
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282,40 |
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The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
ISBN: 9781571814302 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities - specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great' questions and developments of general history." - Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft ..". this magnificent and much-needed volume ... is remarkably free, factual or interpretive." - American Jewish History "The age-old tension between value-free history and history with a moral is implicit throughout this fine volume." - The Jerusalem Report "A substantial contribution to the scholarship on Indian Native-American]-European relations ......
"This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities - specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great...
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175,60 |
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The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima
ISBN: 9780226280981 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1996, against the backdrop of Alberto Fujimori s increasingly corrupt national politics, an older woman in Lima, Peru part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the privatization of the city s cleaning services stripped to the waist in full view of the crowd that surrounded her. Lima had just launched a campaign to revitalize its historic districts, and this shockingly transgressive act was just one of a series of events that challenged the norms of order, cleanliness, and beauty that the renewal effort promoted. "The City at Its Limits" employs a novel and fluid interweaving of...
In 1996, against the backdrop of Alberto Fujimori s increasingly corrupt national politics, an older woman in Lima, Peru part of a group of women stre...
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138,63 |
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Patterns of Protest: Politics and Social Movements in Bolivia
ISBN: 9781899365715 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bolivia leapt onto the front pages of the news in October 2003, when the -Gas Wars- protests caused the ousting of Bolivia's President, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. In the Gas Wars the indigenous inhabitants, trade unions, and other civil society groups came together to protest the sale of Bolivian natural gas to the United States through a pipeline leading to Chile. In the unrest protestors were killed, and calls for the President to resign grew ever louder. Bolivia has a long history of social protest. In Cochabamba in 2000, the Water Wars saw nearly 10,000 people take to the streets against...
Bolivia leapt onto the front pages of the news in October 2003, when the -Gas Wars- protests caused the ousting of Bolivia's President, Gonzalo Sanche...
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Understanding Roman Inscriptions
ISBN: 9780415151436 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Romans commemorated many different events with inscriptions, and not just carved in stone: they are found also on such materials as bronze, wood, mosaic, glass and pottery. They range from the official and highly formulaic to the ordinary and personal. Lawrence Keppie introduces the non-specialist to the subject of inscriptions and provides clear guidance towards translating the Latin texts. Reading the text is only part of interpretation, however, and this book also gives an account of the other aspects needed for a full understanding of inscriptions. The author covers such subjects as...
The Romans commemorated many different events with inscriptions, and not just carved in stone: they are found also on such materials as bronze, wood, ...
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243,84 |
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Andrés Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
ISBN: 9780521791953 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book-length biography of Andres Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. This work provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of Bello's life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history."
This is the first book-length biography of Andres Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a po...
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422,19 |
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Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888
ISBN: 9780521652667 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement in the early eighteenth century until the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. This slave population was remarkable in its ability to diversify economically as well as to increase through natural reproduction, rather than through importation via the trans-Altantic slave trade. Extensively researched and finely documented, this book places the history of a unique Brazilian slave community into comparative perspective.
This book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settle...
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514,62 |
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The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship: A Political Economy Analysis
ISBN: 9780333800539 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship covers the two most conflicting Chilean governments of this century. The analysis of the Allende government examines the macroeconomic policies and structural reforms and their results; the questioning of property rights constituted a key issue of conflict. The analysis of the Pinochet government starts with a review of Chilean democracy breakdown. Then it examines the success, failure, and final success of economic structural reforms. The book ends with a discussion of the legacies of both governments. In the historical Chilean memory of the...
The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship covers the two most conflicting Chilean governments of this century. The analysis of the Allende gove...
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402,53 |
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The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
ISBN: 9780747590415 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bruna Surfistinha ran away from home at the age of seventeen to become a high-class call girl. This book portrays her estranged middle-class family, her drug use and her unbridled sexuality. This book brings to life the her adventures with men, women and c
Bruna Surfistinha ran away from home at the age of seventeen to become a high-class call girl. This book portrays her estranged middle-class family, h...
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66,70 |
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Amazon Journal of Roger Casement
ISBN: 9781901990010 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book, from the previously unpublished manuscript in the National Library of Ireland, is a valuable and deeply detailed edition of the diary kept by Casement during his journey into the South American rainforests. He had been sent by the British government to report on atrocities against tribal people while being forced to collect rubber in the Putumayo region in the north-west Amazon. Genocide among the Amazon Indians has continued, but external investigations of this kind have been rare. The way in which Roger Casement carried out his work is still relevant to all kinds of humanitarian...
"This book, from the previously unpublished manuscript in the National Library of Ireland, is a valuable and deeply detailed edition of the diary kept...
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188,93 |
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Intellectuals & Left Politics in Uruguay, 1958-2006 : Frustrated Dialogue
ISBN: 9781845192655 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals role in the Uruguayan left s drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left; frustrated attempts at left unity in the 1960s; the creation of the centre-left Broad Front in 1971; and the defeat of all left endeavors and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup, a prelude to a 12 year dictatorship in which the military substituted themselves for intellectuals. The story continues in 1985, reversing...
Beginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals r...
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308,07 |
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Literature and Subjection: The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America
ISBN: 9780822959991 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, Horacio Legras views the myriad factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. Despite these barriers, Legras reveals a handful of contemporary authors who have attempted in earnest to present marginalized voices to the Western world. His deep and insightful analysis of key works by novelists Juan Jose Saer "(The Witness), " Nellie Campobello "(Cartucho), " Roa Bastos "(Son of Man), " and Jose Maria Arguedas "(The Fox from Up Above and the Fox...
Through theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, Horacio Legras views the myriad factors that have both formed and st...
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230,80 |
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