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“john frederick schwaller”

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  • The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America

    From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond

    by John Frederick Schwaller ...
    An in-depth overview of how Catholicism became such a dominant force across America's southern cultural region.One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Little School

    Tales of Disappearance and Survival

    by Alicia Partnoy ...
    One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared," Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. The Little School is Alicia Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment in Argentina in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Condor Years

    How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

    by John Dinges ...
    A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald).Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conflicting Missions

    Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

    by Piero Gleijeses ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses’s fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba’s first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964–65 — where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Return of Hans Staden

    A Go-between in the Atlantic World

    by Eve M. Duffy, Alida C. Metcalf ...
    Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world.Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution

    by Jeremy D. Popkin ...
    Series Book 20 - Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    This book offers students a concise and clearly written overview of the events of the Haitian Revolution, from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 to the declaration of Haiti’s independence in 1804.Draws on the latest scholarship in the field as well as the author’s original researchOffers a valuable resource for those studying independence movements in Latin America, ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

    A History

    by Marcos Cueto, Steven Palmer ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the development of health in the region. This comprehensive book summarizes the social history of medicine, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Beyond Borders

    A History of Mexican Migration to the United States

    by Timothy J. Henderson ...
    Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present day.Considers the issues from the perspectives of both the United States and MexicoOffers a reasoned assessment of the factors that ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Who Can Stop the Drums?

    Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela

    by Sujatha Fernandes ...
    In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Brazil Imagined

    1500 to the Present

    by Darlene J. Sadlier ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this ambitious survey demonstrates the ways in which life in one of the world's largest nations has been conceived and revised in visual arts, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Enigma of Central America: Drug Highway of the Americas

    by Frank C. Newby ...
    The story of Central America is one of plunder and pillage by the nations of the world: The gunboat diplomacy of the United States; the influence of the CIA; the greed of giant international corporations; the tragedy of slavery and conquest.This part of the world has never known stability or peace. The Catholic Church and the melting pot of black, white, Spanish and Indian created strange creeds ... Read more

    $7.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America

    by Erick D. Langer ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    The efforts of Indians in Latin America have gained momentum and garnered increasing attention in the last decade as they claim rights to their land and demand full participation in the political process. This issue is of rising importance as ecological concerns and autochtonous movements gain a foothold in Latin America, transforming the political landscape into one in which multiethnic ... Read more

    $42.09 USD