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Brazil since 1980by Francisco Vidal Luna; Herbert S. Klein
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development - the shift, in effect, from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society - in any language. more...
The History of the Conquest of Peruby William H. Prescott
The Floating Press 1850; US$ 6.95A recognized Latin American history masterpiece "The History of the Conquest of Peru" offers an authoritative vision of Pizarro's turbulent defeat of the Inca Empire. Overflowing with spectacle, every page encapsulates the ruthlessness and arrogance of the conquistadors. more...
Brazilby Thomas E. Skidmore
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 15.00Introduction: Why Read About Brazil?. CHAPTER 1. BIRTH AND GROWTH OF COLONIAL BRAZIL: 1500-1750. The Country the Portuguese Created in the New World. The Colonial Economy and Society. Miscegenation: Biological and Cultural. The Beginnings of a Luso-Brazilian Culture. CHAPTER 2. CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM AND EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT BRAZIL: 1790-1830. The Economics and Politics of Post-1750 Brazil. The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil. CHAPTER 3. REVOLT, CONSOLIDATION, AND WAR: 1830-1870. Uprisings under the Regency. Recentralization. The Role of Pedro II. The Rise of Coffee. The Emerging Problems with Slavery as an Institution. The Question of Abolition. The Paraguayan War. CHAPTER 4. MAKING BRAZIL "MODERN": 1870-1910. The... more...
Brazilby Ignacy Sachs; Jorge Wilheim; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 65.00Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization.All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies... more...
Nixon, Kissinger, and Allendeby Lubna Qureshi
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2008; US$ 28.99Detailing 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. more...
Anthropology of Love and Angerby Joanna Overing; Alan Passes
Routledge 2000; US$ 45.95Questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. A fascinating work that contains case studies from across South America and discussions on topics such as the efficacy of laughter. more...
Until Death Do Us Partby Ingrid Betancourt
HarperCollins US 2002; US$ 9.99Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the country's countless children whose lives were being destroyed by extreme poverty and institutional neglect. Intellectually, Ingrid was influenced by Pablo Neruda and other Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcí¡ Má²±uez, who frequented her parents' social circle. She studied at É£ole de Sciences Politiques de Paris, a prestigious academy in France. more...
Missingby Thomas Hauser
RosettaBooks 2002; US$ 5.99Missing is a true story. In retelling it, writer Thomas Hauser did not need to novelize it. Using the facts alone, the book unfolds with the breathtaking suspense and intrigue of a fully imagined political thriller. Missing explores the fate of a young American journalist named Charles Horman who, living in Chile in 1973 just before the overthrow of the country´s Marxist president Salvatore Allende, discovered evidence of the United States´ involvement in an impending right-wing coup to overthrow Allende. The story takes on a new significance now, as the now-aged general who overthrew the Allende regime, Augusto Pinochet, is facing punishment for his actions. What makes the story of Missing so frightening and horrifying is that Horman was... more...
Getting to Know Waiwaiby Alan Tormaid Campbell
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95A beautifully written account of time spent with the Wayapi that looks forward to Wayapi survivors one hundred years from now and considers what will be left as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest proceeds. more...
Kayapó Ethnoecology and Cultureby Kristina Plenderleith; Darrell A. Posey
Routledge 2002; US$ 138.00This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o. more...









