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  • The Avila of Saint Teresa

    Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City

    by Jodi Bilinkoff ...
    The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates the conditions that helped to shape the religious reforms for which the city's most famous citizen ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Colonial Saints

    Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800

    Edited by Allan Greer, Jodi Bilinkoff ...
    From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays examine how New World spirits transformed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Portugal

    by Ian Robertson ...
    A concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings up to the politics and life of the present day. It was not until the twelfth century that Portugal became a country in its own right, having been a Roman colony and then having suffered both Barbarian and Islamic invasions. The golden age of discoveries, the reign of Henry the Navigator, and great seamen such as Vasco da Gama led to the ... Read more

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  • Genesis

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Series Book 1 - Memory of Fire
    "An epic work of literary creation . . . There could be no greater vindication of the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America than Memory of Fire ." — The Washington PostEduardo Galeano's monumental three-volume retelling of the history of the New World begins with Genesis, a vast chain of legends sweeping from the birth of creation to the era of savage colonialism. Through lyrical prose ... Read more

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  • The Pirates' Who's Who

    Enriched edition. Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers

    by Philip Gosse, Eric Booth ...
    In "The Pirates' Who's Who," Philip Gosse delivers a meticulously researched compendium that intricately details the lives and exploits of some of history's most infamous pirates. With a blend of an informative narrative style and rich biographical sketches, Gosse situates these swashbucklers within the broader context of maritime history during the Golden Age of Piracy. The book's literary ... Read more

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  • WE, THE ANARCHISTS

    A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937

    by Stuart Christie ...
    Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group of twentieth-century militants dedicated to keeping Spain’s largest labour union, the CNT, on a revolutionary, ... Read more

    $3.41 USD

  • History Of The War In The Peninsular And In The South Of France, From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814 – Vol. III

    by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B. ...
    Series series History Of The War In The Peninsular And In The South Of France, From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814
    A masterful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and played a pivotal role in the end of his domination of Europe.The author served with distinction in the actions of the Light Division, such as the epic march to Talavera, the battles of Fuentes d'Oñoro, Salamanca, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse. He left the service a General and Knight Commander of the Order of Bath. ... Read more

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  • Dictatorship in South America

    by Jerry Dávila ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    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 AmericaExamines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Bull and The Ban

    Exploring The Catalan Ban On Bullfighting

    by Catherine Tosko, Alexander Fiske-Harrison ...
    In 2012, Catalonia, an autonomous province of Spain, abolishes bullfighting, and Cat Tosko decides to make a documentary about it, "The Bull and The Ban". This is the book of the exclusive interviews, essays and photos with matadors such as Francisco Rivera Ordóñez (Death and the Sun) and Frank Evans (The Last British Bullfighter), Catalan politicians, animal rights activists and those who work in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Faces of Latin America

    Fourth Edition (Revised)

    by Duncan Green ...
    Faces of Latin America has sold more than 50,000 copies since it first appeared in 1991, and is widely considered to be the best available introduction in English to the economies, politics, demography, social structures, environment and cultures of Latin America. Duncan Green and Sue Branford take the reader beyond the conventional media’s fixation on the drug trade, corrupt politicians and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Making Mondragón

    The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex

    by William Foote Whyte, Kathleen King Whyte ...
    Series series Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
    This well-researched study should be read by anyone with an interest in worker cooperatives, community economic development, and work redesign programs.― Contemporary SociologySince its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Hello, Hello Brazil

    Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    by Bryan McCann ...
    “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann ... Read more

    $25.19 USD