Offers students with an understanding of the crisis in Colombia. This book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the guerrilla insurgency in the Americas.
While fighting on land holds center stage, there is also a focus on the Civil War at sea.
The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe.
Presents a study of Russian history since 1861, from the perspective of individuals and groups usually underrepresented in scholarly studies, giving the reader a... Læs mere
A text for courses in colonial and antebellum history. It analyzes the 'peculiar institution' in the First State.
As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. On three separate occasions, Isabel was named regent, or head of state.
Looks at life in Cuba, including descriptions of its people and places. This book illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden.
Offers an introduction to the long and varied history of generalizing about America. This anthology is suitable for American studies and American culture courses. It contains essays, plays, songs, comedy, legal documents, speeches, and poems on American themes.
Tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked enormous hostility and widespread adulation.
Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American... Læs mere
Presents an overview of the development of sports in Latin America. This book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic,... Læs mere
Focuses on the men who shaped the events that led to secession and the Civil War.