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  • Marcoré

    de Antonio Olavo Pereira ...
    Traducido por John Saunders, Alfred Hower ...
    Marcoré, first published in Rio de Janeiro in 1957, won the coveted prize for fiction awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters and has been praised by leading critics and writers in Brazil. The novel has maintained favor with the Brazilian public and has also been published and received with enthusiasm in Portugal.Adopting the intimist, introspective approach characteristic of such writers as ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Empire in Transition

    The Portuguese World in the Time of Camões

    Edición de Alfred Hower ...
    Series series Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series
    The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell ... Leer más

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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    de Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Double

    A Novel

    de José Saramago ...
    Traducido por Margaret Costa ...
    A "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    de Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

    A Novel

    de Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Traducido por Helen R. Lane ...
    Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Jose Bonifacio De Andrada E Silva

    The Greatest Man in Brazilian History

    de Ricardo C. Amaral ...
    Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva "The Greatest Man in Brazilian History" This book will introduce to the United States the founding father of Brazil. He is one of the greatest statesman in world history, but he is unknown to the American public. He is the Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and George Washington of Brazil embodied in one person. This book will cover some of the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Skylight

    A Novel

    de José Saramago ...
    The denizens of a rundown building in 1940s Lisbon come to sparkling life in this lost early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness.The renowned Portuguese author Jose Saramago was at the beginning of his career when he submitted his novel Skylight for publication in 1953. It then sat lost among stacks of manuscripts for thirty-six years. Published posthumously according to Saramago ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    de Jessica Knauss ...
    Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have largely failed to see the usefulness of considering the different types of text produced under ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    de Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Libro 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    de Thornton Wilder ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEListed Among Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005In eighteenth-century Peru, the collapse of a fabled bridge sets in motion a profound exploration of fate, love, and the interconnectedness of human lives. The Bridge of San Luis Rey centers around Brother Juniper, a devout Franciscan monk who witnesses the accident and becomes obsessed with ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry – a Literatura De Cordel

    A Bilingual Anthology in English and Portuguese

    de Mark J. Curran ...
    Brazil's folk-popular poetry – "a literatura de cordel," – is perhaps the most important and vibrant variant of poetry of the masses in western culture. But not many people in the English-speaking world know much about it.Written by a recognized scholar on the subject, Brazil’s Folk-Popular Poetry — A Literatura De Cordel notes the craft’s origins in Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries and ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD