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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...
Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830-1865by Simon Collier; Alan Knight
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 36.00This book examines the formative period of Chile's history, and combines an analysis of the ideas and assumptions of the Chilean political class with a narrative of the political process from the consolidation of the Conservative regime in the 1830s, to the beginnings of liberalization in the early 1860s. more...
Why Women Protestby Lisa Baldez; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 24.00This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile: the movement against the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende and that against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. This book explains the similarities between these movements. more...
Sketches of Life in Chile, 1841-1851by Jose Joaquin Vallejo; Frederick H. Fornoff; Simon Collier
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 8.95Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," Jose Joaquin Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known for their caustic wit, his writings were an instant success when they were first published in Chilean magazines and newspapers. This volume presents these vivid essays for the first time in English. Vallejo made famous the style of writing termed "costumbrista"--sketches and vignettes of society and local customs. He focused on the Norte Chico, or the mining zone of Copiapo where he was born and where he lived most of his later life. His essays include vivid studies of mineworkers; the advancement of modernity in the steamships at Caldera; the religious, intensely cultural province of Copiapo;... more...
Times Gone Byby Vicente Perez Rosales; John H. R. Polt; Brian Loveman
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 8.95Times Gone By is a collection of brief memoirs by Vincente Perez Rosales in which he records his varied adventures in his native Chile, Argentina, France, Germany, and the Californian Gold Rush. Part social and cultural history and part commentary, this edition is edited with an Introduction and chronology of Rosales' life by Professor Brian Loveman and translated by John H.R. Polt. more...
Frommer's® South Floridaby Lesley Abravanel
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99Miami and the Keys are perennially popular destinations, especially for winter travel. Florida tourism officials predict a 3.2 percent increase in visitors for 2006. more...
A History of Chile, 1808-2002by Simon Collier; William F. Sater
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 24.00A History of Chile provides an overview of Chilean history which will appeal to the general reader as well as the specialist. Employing primary and secondary materials, it analyses the nation's political, economic, and social evolution from Chile's independence to 2002. more...
The Girondins of Chileby Benjamin Vicuna MacKenna
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 8.95This text tells of the influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. A Chilean writer and historian who lived during that time in Santiago relates the events. more...
Andean Tragedyby William F. Sater
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 60.00The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile?s and Peru?s armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes. more...
Monuments, Empires, and Resistanceby Tom D. Dillehay
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 114.00Cambridge Studies in Archaeology is a major new book series that aims to showcase the very best in contemporary archaeological scholarship. Reflecting the wide diversity and vigour of archaeology as an intellectual discipline, the series covers all region more...