Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - South America

The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime.

Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getulio Vargas practiced savage forms of repression against Brazilian leftists, whose "Red extremism" was cited by both government leaders and the press as sufficient cause for Vargas' adoption of the...

From reviews of Volume I:

Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over.

In the first volume, John F. W. Dulles paints a portrait of a rebellious youth, who had the willfulness of his prominent father and...

Buenos Aires has been called the Paris of Latin America, and the comparison is just, for in style of life and city design Buenos Aires resembles not only the City of Light but also the other great world capitals--London, Rome, New York.

Buenos Aires: 400 Years attests to the long, diverse, and fascinating life of this urban mass of some six hundred square miles and eleven million inhabitants, which began as a tiny palisaded outpost on the remote fringe of the Spanish Empire. That colonial past is skillfully described here, but so too is the future of Buenos Aires. Each...

The inhabitants of the department of Antioquia in north-central Colombia have played a unique role in that country's economic history. During the colonial period Antioqueno placer miners supplied a substantial portion of New Granada's gold exports. Their nineteenth-century descendants pioneered investments in lode mining, colonization, international commerce, banking, stock raising, tobacco, and coffee. In the twentieth century, Antioquenos initiated the industrialization of the regional capital, Medellin.

Many theories have been set forth to account for the special energy and...

Among others in this vast cast of characters who people the drama of the Amazon is Francisco de Orellana, the first European to traverse the river...

"Thorough studies such as this are relatively rare in the northern Peruvian coast archaeological literature. This pioneering work is the first English-language excavation monograph detailing the material culture of the Casma polity."--Jonathan D. Kent, Metropolitan State College, Denver

Latin America is still dealing with the legacy of terror and torture from its authoritarian past. In the years after the restoration of democratic governments in countries where violations of human rights were most rampant, the efforts to hold former government officials accountable were mainly conducted at the level of the state, through publicly appointed truth commissions and other such devices. This stage of "transitional justice" has been carefully and exhaustively studied. But as this first wave of efforts died down, with many still left unsatisfied that justice had been rendered, a...

Der Kulturphilosoph Oswald Spengler gilt als der erste Universalhistoriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" (1918, 1922) machte sich die Analyse von acht Hochkulturen zur Aufgabe - neben der Antike und dem Abendland, Indien, Babylon, China, Agypten, Arabien und Mexiko - unterlie aber die Behandlung Mexikos fast ganzlich. Das bisher unveroffentlichte Erstlingswerk, "Montezuma. Ein Trauerspiel" (1897) wirft ein neues Licht auf das Interesse Spenglers fur das alte Mexiko, das Land, das paradoxerweise zur Ausnahme und zum ersten Baustein seiner Kulturmorphologie...