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The Nitrate King: A Biography of "colonel" John Thomas North
ISBN: 9780230112803 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King, ' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru, this is the first biography of a controversial but compelling figure.
William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King, ' a mechanic in Leeds who becam...
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201,24 |
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Precarious Democracies: Understanding Regime Stability and Change in Colombia and Venezuela
ISBN: 9780268022266 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has democracy in Colombia and Venezuela evolved in very different directions? In "Precarious Democracies," Ana Maria Bejarano provides a comparative historical analysis of how the democratic regimes in these two countries have diverged, following similar transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy in the late 1950s. Rather than focusing on resource-driven explanations, such as the role of oil in Venezuela and coffee in Colombia, or on short-term elite choices and calculations, Bejarano argues that democratic development in Colombia and Venezuela is best understood from a vantage... Why has democracy in Colombia and Venezuela evolved in very different directions? In "Precarious Democracies," Ana Maria Bejarano provides a compar... |
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156,72 |
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Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State
ISBN: 9780230109001 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.
Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular cu...
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201,24 |
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The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil
ISBN: 9780822961338 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with the demise of the Estado Novo under Getulio Vargas, Stanley E. Blake offers original perspectives on the paradoxical concept of the nordestino and the importance of these debates to the process of state and nation building. The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos i... |
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252,36 |
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The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity
ISBN: 9780292725690 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the mid-twentieth century, Eastern European Jews had become one of Argentina's largest minorities. Some represented a wave of immigration begun two generations before; many settled in the province of Entre Rios and founded an agricultural colony. Taking its title from the resulting hybrid of acculturation, The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho examines the lives of these settlers, who represented a merger between native cowboy identities and homeland memories. The arrival of these immigrants in what would be the village of Villa Clara coincided with the nation's new... By the mid-twentieth century, Eastern European Jews had become one of Argentina's largest minorities. Some represented a wave of immigration begun ... |
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77,28 |
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Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru
ISBN: 9780826517685 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deviant and Useful Citizens explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776 comprised modern-day Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Mariselle Melendez introduces the reader to a female rebel, Micaela Bastidas, whose brutal punishment became a particularly harsh example of state response to women who challenged the system. She explores the cultural representation of women depicted as economically productive and vital to the health of the culture at large. The role of...
Deviant and Useful Citizens explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Vicero...
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545,52 |
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Vivos Bajo Tierra (Buried Alive): La Historia Verdadera de Los 33 Mineros Chilenos (the True Story of the 33 Chile an Miners) = Buried Alive
ISBN: 9780983139003 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Estuvieron 69 dias atrapados bajo tierra en pleno desierto de Atacama, Chile. Las primeras semanas sobrevivieron con apenas dos cucharadas de atun cada 48 horas, soportando el calor endemoniado de una mina de cobre y oro que tras un derrumbe de rocas gigantes, los mantuvo soterrados 69 dias, a casi 700 metros de profundidad. Pese a la gravedad de la tragedia, los 33 mineros de Atacama, consiguieron escapar de la muerte y hoy viven para contar sus historias. ?Estuve con Dios y estuve con el diablo. Se pelearon y gano Dios, me agarre de la mejor mano?, relato el minero Mario Sepulveda una vez...
Estuvieron 69 dias atrapados bajo tierra en pleno desierto de Atacama, Chile. Las primeras semanas sobrevivieron con apenas dos cucharadas de atun cad...
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92,48 |
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Working Women, Working Men: Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955
ISBN: 9780822313304 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Working Women, Working Men," Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political prominence in the first half of the twentieth century.
Drawing on a diverse range of sources--oral histories along with union, industry, and government archival materials--Wolfe's account focuses... In "Working Women, Working Men," Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's large...
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479,98 |
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Voice and Vote: Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru
ISBN: 9780804773980 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected government that came together in mid-2001 faced a skeptical and suspicious public, with no magic bullet for achieving legitimacy. Many argued that the future of democracy was at stake, and that the government's ability to decentralize and incorporate new actors in decision-making processes was critical. Toward that end, the country's political elite devolved power to subnational governments and designed new institutions to encourage broader citizen...
In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected governm...
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100,19 |
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Voice and Vote: Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru
ISBN: 9780804773973 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected government that came together in mid-2001 faced a skeptical and suspicious public, with no magic bullet for achieving legitimacy. Many argued that the future of democracy was at stake, and that the government's ability to decentralize and incorporate new actors in decision-making processes was critical. Toward that end, the country's political elite devolved power to subnational governments and designed new institutions to encourage broader citizen...
In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected governm...
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426,10 |
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New Technologies for Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru
ISBN: 9783642099540 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 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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Arqueología de los Encuentros. Lo Inka y lo Local en el Pukara de las Lomas Verdes (Tafí del Valle, Prov. de Tucumán, República Argentina)
ISBN: 9781407304656 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,22 |
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The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950
ISBN: 9780822350125 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagion and death but also by broader social and cultural concerns. These worries included changing work routines, rapid urban growth and its consequences for housing and living conditions, efforts to build a healthy national race, and shifting notions of normality and pathology. In The Ailing City, the historian Diego Armus explores the metaphors, state policies, and experiences associated with tuberculosis in Buenos Aires between 1870 and...
For decades, tuberculosis in Buenos Aires was more than a dangerous bacillus. It was also an anxious state of mind shaped not only by fears of contagi...
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156,72 |
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Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780822348849 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and citizenship in Brazil. While popular music has served as an effective resource for communities to stake claims to political, social, and cultural rights in Brazil, it has also been appropriated by the state in its efforts to manage and control a socially, racially, and geographically diverse nation. The question of citizenship has also been a recurrent theme in the work of many of Brazil s most important musicians. These essays explore popular...
Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the vital connections between popular music and ...
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479,98 |
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Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War
ISBN: 9780813037295 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses competently on Brazilian foreign policy between 1992 and 2002, particularly on Brazilians aspirations for leadership in South America. . . . Recommended. Choice Drawing on extensive interviews with Brazilian diplomats, the Canadian scholar Burges cogently argues that Brazil is self-consciously pursuing a consensual hegemony to establish leadership in South America, partly in order to gain regional support for its international initiatives. Foreign Affairs A very useful framework for understanding the factors that have impelled the emergence of Brazil in... Focuses competently on Brazilian foreign policy between 1992 and 2002, particularly on Brazilians aspirations for leadership in South America. . .... |
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117,50 |
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Österreicher in den SS-Einsatzgruppen und SS-Brigaden: Die Tötungsaktionen in der Sowjetunion 1941-1942
ISBN: 9783842850156 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Gründung der SS (Schutzstaffel) im Jahr 1925 sollte nur dem persönlichen Schutz Adolf Hitlers dienen. Sie war bis zum "Röhm-Putsch" 1934 ein Teil der SA (Sturmabteilung). Ab 1929 war Himmler Chef der SS, er ernannte Reinhard Heydrich 1939 zum Leiter des RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamtes). Bereits im Jänner 1939 beauftragte Göring Heydrich, sich mit der "Judenfrage" zu beschäftigen. Dazu wurden "Einsatzgruppen" aufgestellt, welche vor allem Juden, "Freischärler, Partisanen und verdächtige Elemente" zu ermorden hatten. Durch "verbrecherische Befehle" wie den...
Die Gründung der SS (Schutzstaffel) im Jahr 1925 sollte nur dem persönlichen Schutz Adolf Hitlers dienen. Sie war bis zum "Röhm-Putsch" 1934 ein Te...
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201,90 |
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Brokered Homeland: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism
ISBN: 9780801440106 / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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587,73 |
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Electoral Mobilization and Public Opinion: The Venezuela Campaign of 1973
ISBN: 9780807897225 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume in a larger study of political participation and attitudes in Venezuela focuses on the mobilization of public opinion in the 1973 campaign. Data is drawn from personal observation, interviews with party elites, and a nation-wide survey. Six months of travel with the major presidential candidates provides insight into the strategy, tactics, and personalities of the campaign, and the survey offers a wealth of information on the attitudes of the electorate.
Originally published 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in... This first volume in a larger study of political participation and attitudes in Venezuela focuses on the mobilization of public opinion in the 1973 ca...
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235,10 |
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Conquistador! The True Life Adventures of Bernal Diaz and His Part in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas in the Early Sixteenth Century: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780857062925 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men of iron mounted on strange beasts out to conquer an Empire
There can be few more substantial and all embracing accounts of the Conquistadors than that of Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Whilst all first-hand accounts are invaluable it is unusual to find them as comprehensive as that of Bernal Diaz particularly from the 16th century. His work is so expansive it fills two substantial volumes in this special Leonaur edition. The deeds of the Conquistadors-literally conquerors-are broadly known by all. Here were small armies of determined and ruthless men from the Old World sailing perilous... Men of iron mounted on strange beasts out to conquer an Empire
There can be few more substantial and all embracing accounts of the Conquistadors t... |
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196,94 |
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Conquistador! The True Life Adventures of Bernal Diaz and His Part in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas in the Early Sixteenth Century: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780857062932 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men of iron mounted on strange beasts out to conquer an Empire
There can be few more substantial and all embracing accounts of the Conquistadors than that of Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Whilst all first-hand accounts are invaluable it is unusual to find them as comprehensive as that of Bernal Diaz particularly from the 16th century. His work is so expansive it fills two substantial volumes in this special Leonaur edition. The deeds of the Conquistadors-literally conquerors-are broadly known by all. Here were small armies of determined and ruthless men from the Old World sailing perilous... Men of iron mounted on strange beasts out to conquer an Empire
There can be few more substantial and all embracing accounts of the Conquistadors t... |
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123,99 |
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