Completed in 1653, Father Bernabe Cobo's Historia del Nuevo Mundo is an important source of information on pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America. Though parts of the work are now lost, the remaining sections which have been translated offer valuable insights into Inca culture and Peruvian history. Inca Religion and Customs is the second ...
This is the second edition of Peter Bakewell's highly successful complete history of South and Central America, which now offers fuller coverage of twentieth-century developments. The book provides a vivid, analytical narrative and is clearly and extensively illustrated with maps and photographs. It describes the environment and peoples of the ...
The naval historian Eliot Morison sailed on Columbus' route to the New World before beginning to write about his life. The result of this expedition is this biography of Christopher Columbus.
Naipaul describes the effects of British, French, and Dutch colonialism on the history and culture of the Caribbean. Naipaul based his observations on a seven-month tour of the area, a grant from the government in Trinidad.
Born in the slums of Buenos Aires in the last decades of the 19th century, the tango has survived for more than a hundred years. Today it is the focus of a new cult in the Americas, Europe, the Pacific basin and Japan. In this book, four experts on the dance from Europe, North America and Latin America explore the history of the tango from its ...
In the late 1800s, a newspaper reporter attempts to impress his lady friend by joining an expedition led by Professor Challenger, which takes him along the Amazon in a search for a hidden valley populated by still-living dinosaurs. Unrelated to the Michael Crichton novel and film of the same name (which, incidentally, are named in homage to this ...
"The Rough Guide to Chile" is the essential travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the top attractions and scenic journeys along the length of this country. Discover all corners of Chile, from the vast Atacama Desert and magnificent, snow-capped Volcan Osorno to the granite spires of the Torres del Paine massif in Southern ...
Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon in search of medicinal plant lore more than 40 years ago. Her engrossing adventure story is an inspiring plea for civilization to save the plants and people who know how to use them before they are destroyed forever. For this newly revised edition, Maxwell catalogues plants mentioned in the text and their ...
Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals, this work is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. It is also a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization and barbarism. Sarmiento explores the impact of Argentinian geography on the life of the gaucho ...
On the night of January 24, 1835, hundreds of African Muslim slaves poured into the streets of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian province of Bahia, to confront soldiers and armed civilians. Nearly 70 slaves were killed. More than 500 were sentenced to death, prison, whipping or deportation. Although the rebel slaves failed to win their freedom, ...
For thirty years, David G. Campbell has explored the Amazon, an enchanting terrain of forest and river that is home to the greatest diversity of plants and animals to have ever existed anywhere at any time in the four-billion-year history of life on Earth. With great artistic flair, Campbell describes a journey up the Rio Moa, a remote tributary ...
This guide gives a brief and accessible overview of the whole of Latin American Studies. Covering all the possible topics, from colonial cultures and identity to US Latino culture and issues of race, gender and sexuality, this book situates Latin America in its historical, linguistic and cultural context. Whether taking a single module or a whole ...
The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above or a popular triumph from below continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. Examining the experiences of countries that have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America, this book delineates a more ...
The disappearance of the Atlantic forest could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times. A quarter the size of the Amazon, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic forest contains a great diversity of life forms that are being ravaged as the continual clearing destroys the area's natural balance. Based on a ...
Chile is an increasingly popular destination among UK tourists, with the number of visitors tripling in the last ten years. Chile has an amazing diversity of landscapes, from the Atacama desert (the driest place on Earth) in the North through the glorious beaches of the Central Coast, down to the breathtaking glaciers, fjords and lakes in the ...
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go-they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers ...
This work should be of interest to those who would like to understand Brazil and Latin America, past and present. First published in 1985, and now expanded and revised to include a new chapter on women, the book explores the social, political, economic, and intellectual currents that shaped 19th century Brazil and whose reverberations continue to ...
On encountering what he called "the Indies", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, "Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turned out to be otherwise...What could I do then but laugh at Aristotle's "Meteorology" and his ...
This novel is based on the premise that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Professor Challenger had actually found living dinosaurs in the late 1800s, events which are described in several of Doyle's books. Now, 50 years later, the dinosaurs that have been brought into "civilization" are beginning to die off and an expedition is mounted to return ...
Alberto Fujimori ascended to the presidency of Peru in 1990, boldly promising to remake the country. Ten years later, he hastily sent his resignation from exile in Japan, leaving behind a trail of lies, deceit, and corruption. Prosecutors, judges, and congressional investigators assembled to piece together the story of Fujimori's presidency, and ...
The "Rough Guide to Argentina" is the definitive guide to this staggeringly diverse country. The full-colour section introduces the country's highlights from the sparkling emeralds and turquoise waters of the seven lakes, to climbing Acongagua and dolphin-spotting at Puerto Deseado. This updated third edition gives in-depth detail of the entire ...
This volume represents Neruda's abandonment of traditional structure, rhyme, and syntax. The work contains 15 sections, many of them devoted to the South American natural world.
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