Kategoria BISAC: History >> Latin America - South America

The Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds have been crucibles for important work in oral history and other fields, but too little has been made accessible to English readers. This collection seeks to enhance and expand access to recent scholarship from the Iberian world that has not been translated or otherwise made available to English speakers.

"Sklavenhandler, Negreros und Atlantikkreolen" zeichnet die fast
unglaubliche Geschichte individueller Profi teure des Sklavenhandels
in den rund 500 Jahren zwischen 1400 und 1900 nach. Ein Raum der
"Freiheit" - der atlantische Ozean - war Schauplatz dieser Geschichte
der Gewalt. Er verband die Raume der "Sklavenproduktion" im Innern
Afrikas uber Kusten und Inseln, auf denen sich erste Formen von modernen
Sklavereien entwickelten, bis hin zu den Gebieten der Amerikas, in denen
sich im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert dynamische Formen der Massensklaverei
mit...

Ai nostri giorni i governi nazionali possono professare pubblicamente la Fede Cattolica? I governi cattolici erano la norma durante il glorioso Medio Evo, quando la CristianitA era estesa a tutta l'Europa. Oggi questa possibilitA viene derisa come anacronistica e non pratica, mentre l'assioma massonico della separazione tra Stato e Chiesa E ormai universalmente accettato, nonostante che tale idea sia stata ripetutamente condannata dalla Chiesa Cattolica. La forma di governo secolarizzata fece la sua prima comparsa soltanto con la nascita degli Stati Uniti d'America, il prototipo massonico...

The people of Colombia have, for the last fifty years, been subject to a specific form of violence: paramilitarism. An embodiment of the underbelly of global capitalist accumulation, this form of pervasive violence expresses the exacerbation of social inequalities and class formation under capitalism. In Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism, Jasmin Hristov theorises this extreme expression in light of forced displacement, labour repression, subjugation of social movements, decentralisation of violence, drug trafficking and the emergence of a variety of para-institutional armed actors...