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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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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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115,42 |
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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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244,84 |
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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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423,90 |
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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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516,69 |
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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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66,97 |
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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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194,22 |
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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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309,33 |
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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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231,74 |
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The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986
ISBN: 9780773534124 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raul Prebisch was a leader in economic development theory and international economic policy, an institution builder, and an international diplomat. This title provides an account of his life and work, a story cast against the backdrop of Latin America, the Cold War, and the rise of the United Nations."
Raul Prebisch was a leader in economic development theory and international economic policy, an institution builder, and an international diplomat. Th...
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313,46 |
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The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire
ISBN: 9780143114611 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him. In 1876, Wickham smuggled 70,000 rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England's most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds-and the...
The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history In this thrilling real-life account of brave...
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92,48 |
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Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia
ISBN: 9780896802674 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state's coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of... In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of presen... |
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127,29 |
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Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas
ISBN: 9780873529440 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of Bartolome de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelizing and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays gathered in this volume show teachers how to introduce and engage with Las Casas--one of the first voices to criticize European treatment of the native populations of the Americas and crucial today to studies of... The work of Bartolome de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Do... |
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Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas
ISBN: 9780873529457 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of Bartolome de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelizing and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays gathered in this volume show teachers how to introduce and engage with Las Casas--one of the first voices to criticize European treatment of the native populations of the Americas and crucial today to studies of... The work of Bartolome de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Do... |
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156,72 |
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New Technologies for Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru
ISBN: 9783540874379 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2002 the multidisciplinary research project Nasca: development and adaptation of archaeometric techniques for the investigation of cultural history (Nasca: Entwicklung und Adaption archa]ometrischer Techniken zur Erforschung der Kulturgeschichte) started, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education andResearch(Bundesministerium fu]r Bildung und Forschung, BMBF ) in its priority program New scientific methods and technologies for the humanities (Neue Naturwissenschaftliche Methoden und Technologien fu]r die Geisteswissenschaften, NTG). This new project continued and in a certain way...
In 2002 the multidisciplinary research project Nasca: development and adaptation of archaeometric techniques for the investigation of cultural history...
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805,10 |
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Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community
ISBN: 9780252076039 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavalenos are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Rituals have persisted among this ethnic community as important processes for symbolically capturing and critically assessing cultural changes in the face of modern influences. Ritual Encounters thus offers an appreciation of the modern and mythic community as a single and emergent condition.
This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavalenos...
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97,90 |
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Conquistador Voices (vol II): The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants
ISBN: 9780978646639 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas principally through the voices of those who participated in that signal event. Its goal is to make this story engaging by substantial use of first-person narrative--much of it newly translated from Spanish and Italian sources. The overall story is told in five parts, each part featuring a principal actor of the Spanish Conquest--an explorer or conquistador. Volume II is devoted, in the first place, to the... Conquistador Voices, a two-volume work by Kevin H. Siepel, is intended for the general reader. The book presents the history of the Spanis... |
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111,56 |
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Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile
ISBN: 9780739126554 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detailing the heavy involvement of the Nixon administration in the 1973 coup against the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende of Chile, Qureshi provides the reasons for the coup including the threat Allende posed to the United States' notions of hegemony in Latin America.
Detailing the heavy involvement of the Nixon administration in the 1973 coup against the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende of Chile, Q...
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450,59 |
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The Cocaine Wars
ISBN: 9780393336641 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading like a riveting true crime thriller, The Cocaine Wars moves from the jungles of South America where coca leaves are grown to the streets of America where the white powder is sold. The inside story of how the powerful cocaine business has become America's number one problem.
Reading like a riveting true crime thriller, The Cocaine Wars moves from the jungles of South America where coca leaves are grown to the streets of Am...
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103,86 |
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