ilość książek w kategorii: 1177
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Small States in Global Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the Caribbean Community (Caricom)
ISBN: 9781349538669 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book updates the 1989 volume 'Caribbean in World Affairs' providing a comprehensive and theoretically-grounded account of diplomatic developments in the Caribbean. The new material includes attention to the changed global setting, updated theoretical developments in foreign policy, and the inclusion of Haiti and Suriname.
This book updates the 1989 volume 'Caribbean in World Affairs' providing a comprehensive and theoretically-grounded account of diplomatic developments...
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201,24 |
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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
ISBN: 9781349532957 / Angielski / Miękka / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Haiti's independence.
The story of Haiti's independence.
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cena:
357,89 |
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New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon
ISBN: 9781349495740 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.
Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature ...
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201,24 |
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A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún: Buchenwald, Before and After
ISBN: 9781349458592 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprun, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist. Essays explore his cultural production in all its manifestations, including the role of testimony and fiction in representations of the Holocaust.
Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprun, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor,...
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201,24 |
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Globalization and Military Power in the Andes
ISBN: 9781349288298 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a series of comparative case studies, the author demonstrates that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are intricately connected to the political power of the military in the region.
Through a series of comparative case studies, the author demonstrates that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are ...
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201,24 |
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Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349534586 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S., and Europe who draw on a close re-reading of the literature and hitherto unavailable or unused primary sources to shed new light on the political changes and cultural representations of Vargas's regimes, thereby exploring why he meant so different things to different people.
This book unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S., and Europe who draw on a close re-reading of the literature and hitherto unavailable or unused primar...
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201,24 |
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Amácio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil: After Cinema Novo
ISBN: 9781349435999 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amacio Mazzaropi's work is a unique instance in Brazilian culture - as an artist not connected with the subsidized film industry, he developed a singular voice and represents a segment of the population usually either ignored or viewed with contempt by the established, experimental filmmakers.
Amacio Mazzaropi's work is a unique instance in Brazilian culture - as an artist not connected with the subsidized film industry, he developed a singu...
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201,24 |
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Other Worlds: New Argentine Film
ISBN: 9781349373918 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman.
Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and u...
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cena:
201,24 |
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Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America
ISBN: 9781349373642 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production, distribution and marketing.
This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity...
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201,24 |
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Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability
ISBN: 9781349378319 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from Jose Marti's late nineteenth century cronicas, to Mario Bellatin's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco to the testimonio and filmic depictions of Gabriela Brimmer.
This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from Jose Marti's late nineteenth cent...
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201,24 |
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Queering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015
ISBN: 9781137563859 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile's claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country's view of itself as a "model" in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile's economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and... This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile's claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heteros... |
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362,27 |
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Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9783319437255 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called `post-secular' coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized.
This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization ...
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563,56 |
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The Imbalance of Power: Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
ISBN: 9781785333095 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'state of nature' operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of 'simple' political units with 'egalitarian' political ideologies and 'harmonious' relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian... Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'st... |
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505,22 |
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Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay
ISBN: 9783319535432 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies;
This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents ...
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523,30 |
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Barack Obama Is Brazilian: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil
ISBN: 9781137594808 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines US President Barack Obama's characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The rise of a black president to the office of the most prominent country in the global, political, and economic landscape led some analysts to postulate that the US was living in a post-racial era. President Obama's election also had a tremendous impact on the imaginary of the African Diaspora, and this volume investigates how the election of the...
This book examines US President Barack Obama's characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet meme...
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362,27 |
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News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development
ISBN: 9783319705088 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges.
This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, reg...
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301,89 |
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
ISBN: 9781477315071 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofan people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry.
Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how ...
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cena:
344,90 |
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Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
ISBN: 9781477315088 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,25 |
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Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream
ISBN: 9783319715919 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant `native' literary culture until the postcolonial period. However, as recent research has shown, although the printing press did not arrive in the Caribbean until 1718, the roots of Caribbean literary history predate its arrival.
The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant `native' literary culture until the postcolonial period...
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cena:
362,27 |
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
ISBN: 9781477316436 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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364,34 |