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A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-02-02
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred inWest Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-25
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West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred inWest Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973 drew worldwide attention towards Chile.The political repression shook the world and ignited one of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-15
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Mothers Making Latin America utilizes a combination of gender scholarship and source material to dispel the belief that women were separated from—or unimportant to—central developments in Latin American history since independence. Presents nuanced issues in gender...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-04
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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As in Europe, secular nation building in Latin America challenged the traditional authority of the Roman Catholic Church in the early twentieth century. In response, Catholic social and political movements sought to contest state-led secularisation and provide an answer...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-20
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Als offizieller Chronist der Stadt Ambato hat Pedro Arturo Reino Garcés die spannende Aufgabe, bisher kaum erforschte Dokumente aus der Kolonialzeit zu entziffern und die dahinter verborgene(n) Geschichte(n) zu rekonstruieren. In seiner Lyrik lässt er, in Tradition von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-19
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Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America is a compendium of research papers and treatises on Middle American people who lived within coastal habitats. The collection aims to reveal distinctive coastal adaptations and the role...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2013-09-17
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Written shortly after the capture of the Inca Atahualpa at Cajamarca, Peru, True Account of the Conquest of Peru by Francisco de Jerez, Francisco Pizarro’s secretary and notary, is the most influential of the early accounts of the conquest of the Andean region. This...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-07-03
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The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.Simón Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canvases, a colossal narrative filled with adventure and disaster, victory...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-06-13
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Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
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Pre-Hispanic man accorded food a central place and a vital importance in his culture. Products such as maize, beans, squash, cacao, and chili have their origins in Mesoamerica and form part of the cultural heritage of humanity. This catalogue, ...
Editeur :
Cacciani, S.A. DE C.V.
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2013-03-01
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Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule. Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-02-22
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-02-05
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From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-20
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From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-20
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With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800–1850 illuminates the role...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-12-01
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Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Covers three centuries of Spanish colonial...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-13
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-09-24
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Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays sind dem Historiker und Lateinamerikanisten Friedrich Katz (1927-2010) gewidmet. Sie fußen auf einem Symposium, das im Herbst 2011 zu seinen Ehren in Wien abgehalten wurde, und vereinen unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf sein Leben...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-13
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