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Book Lautaro Lodge

    Book Details:
  • Author : David T. Sanders
  • Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
  • Release : 2023-01-06
  • ISBN : 1645758079
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Lautaro Lodge written by David T. Sanders and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishman, Roger Richardson is intent on establishing his company as a viable competitor for concessions from the Chilean government to extract lithium, a major element needed for modern batteries to advance the use of electric automobiles in the manner his father developed platinum mines for the reduction of emissions from internal combustion engines. In doing that, he and his wife, Margo, created a lodge from where professionals he engaged discovered positive elements for the retreating ice sheets, fossils, and created important wildlife reserves.

Book Captain of the Andes

Download or read book Captain of the Andes written by Margaret H. Harrison and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the military leaders of South America's long fight for independence from Spain, Argentinean general Jos de San Martn (1778-1850) is not well known outside Spanish-speaking lands. But his revolutionary spirit and legend as a great hero of Argentina-and of all of South America-makes him a brother in courage and character to the likes of George Washington. First published in 1943, this is one of the very few biographies of the general and political leader in the English language. A lost classic and hard to find in print in an elegant edition, it covers San Martn's childhood in Spain, his early adventures in Peru, the bloody battles of the war to throw off Spanish control of South America, and much more.

Book The Secret Temple

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Levenda
  • Publisher : Ibis Press
  • Release : 2020-08-15
  • ISBN : 0892541881
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The Secret Temple written by Peter Levenda and published by Ibis Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique history of Masonry written from the perspective of an educated outsider. The author is sympathetic to Masonic goals, a historian of secret societies and political conspiracies, and an exhaustive researcher. He looks back to the earliest roots of the Craft, and then traces its influence into modern times. From the Bible's Temple of Solomon through the Knights Templars, to the Rosicrucians and Illuminati, we learn of Masonry's roots and early history. Enlightenment philosophy and the revolutionary currents of eighteenth-century Europe opened an opportunity for the American experiment. Sacred geometry and architecture combined to create Washington, DC, and the rest, as they say, is history. This second revised and enlarged edition includes a new chapter on Freemasonry in South America - from the revolution of Simón Bolívar to the capture and execution of Che Guevara.

Book The emacipation of South America

Download or read book The emacipation of South America written by Bartalome Mitre and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feeling the Gaze

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  • Author : Gail Bulman
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2022-08-25
  • ISBN : 1469667444
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Feeling the Gaze written by Gail Bulman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling the Gaze explores the visual elements in eight contemporary Argentine and Chilean theater performances. Gail A. Bulman shows how staged images can awaken spectators' emotions to activate their intellect, provoking nuanced and deep contemplation of social, historical, and political themes. Ranging from simple props, costumes, body movements and spatial constructions to integrated media and digital images, the aesthetic components in these pieces engage to forge multifaceted storytelling, stimulate the public's relation to memory, and create affective bonds that help build individual and collective social consciousness. Recent innovations in Southern Cone theatre aesthetics have been shifting traditional performance/spectator relationships and animating ideological discussions. The various works presented here give readers a holistic understanding of the emerging prominence of visuality and affect as a vehicle for political advocacy in Latin American theatre and performance. The book asks us to consider the formation of new spectator-performance bonds as authors, directors, and theatre groups increasingly turn toward alternative settings for their work. Lingering visual memories of the performances, together with the feelings that the performative experience stirs up, provide spectators with an enduring focal point through which to reflect on and judge what is "beyond" the performed scenes. Staged live in the Southern Cone and internationally since 2014, these plays demonstrate the transgressive power of the visual to make spectators see, feel, and potentially act against injustices and violence. This study offers comprehensive critical discussions of Teatro Banda's O'Higgins: un hombre en pedazos; Teatro Nino Proletario's Fulgor; Mario, Luiggi y sus fantasmas's Manual de carrona; Agustin Leon Pruzzo's En la sombra de la cupula; Teatro la Maria's Los millonarios; Claudio Tolcachir's Proximo; Sergio Blanco's Tebas Land; and Lola Arias's Doble de Riesgo.

Book The Emancipation of South America

Download or read book The Emancipation of South America written by Bartolomé Mitre and published by London : Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1893 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fichte in the Americas

Download or read book Fichte in the Americas written by María Jimena Solé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume present the first comprehensive account of Fichte's reception and influence in America, highlighting philosophical issues central to thinkers in the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

Book A Changing World

Download or read book A Changing World written by Cesar Vidal and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is democracy done? Historian Dr. Cesar Vidal explores the expressions and failures of democracy throughout history, and the current threats to its existence around the globe in A Changing World. Vidal, author of over 180 books and possessing Ph.Ds. in history, philosophy, law, and theology, connects the dots between the collapse of national sovereignty and global warming, illegal immigration, gender ideology, national debt, and a globalist agenda. A Changing World details in five parts— a history of democracy, its threats, and options for the future, explaining the following: The foundations of modern democracy and the preponderant role of the Reformation in vital notions such as the supremacy of the law, limited power, and the separation of powers. Similarly, the author explores how these concepts took root in America and gave rise to the emergence of the United States, distinguishing this nation from European countries. The risks facing democracy and how these dangers arose. Starting from an analysis of contemporary philosophical ideologies, he moves on to the emergence of interventionist States, from the origin of Marxism, the imposition and fall of communism, and the rise of fascism in Europe. The threat of the globalist agenda, its main promoters—from Soros to Pope Francis—as well as the dogmas that compose it: global warming, gender ideology, population reduction, and the defense of illegal immigration, all issues that severely affect contemporary society. The evolution of Europe and the emergence of the European Union as the end of independent nations. He then addresses the case of Latin America and the roots of its constant economic and governmental crises. He analyzes the current situations of Venezuela, Chile, and Colombia and why they matter. The final part deals with the emerging resistance to the globalist agenda, manifested in the patriotic and democratic movements in the European Union, South America, and particularly in the United States with the rise of Donald Trump to power. Vidal uses a chapter to focus on Russian history, from tsarism to Putin, and then looks at China and its resurgence, with an appendix on the Middle East. “Far from democracy and freedom being almost naturally imposed realities, both are more threatened than ever. This threat is not only external but also, to a large extent, internal. A Changing World is an attempt to explain what democracy is and its fragility as well as what the globalist agenda is—a colossal threat to the continuity of democracy itself,” says the author about his new book.

Book Beyond Homo Sapiens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mariú Suárez
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2009-03-02
  • ISBN : 146281672X
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book Beyond Homo Sapiens written by Mariú Suárez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the trilogy Beyond Homo SapiensDoubt, explores and interprets the historical events from the discovery of America to the end of the 19th Century. Enlightenment began with the acceptance by a majority of the worlds population that the Earth rotates around the Sun. Symbolically, it meant that our minds became centered on the Light of wisdom instead of the darkness of ignorance. Mari Suarez, the author, shows us how Homo sapiens managed to gain more tools with the marriage of science and crafts. However, his biological automatic reactions of self defense, immediate gratification and drive to reproduce have been left untouched, perpetuating and making even less human the world in which we live. Spiritual insight continued to be absent from our daily lives. Mari explains how two classic fiction characters of the time exemplified the inner struggle of mankind to leave behind blind faith. Don Quixote's Cervantes, and Hamlet's Shakespeare. Mari makes clear, Cervantes wrote about the world of blind faith and feudalism in decline, while Shakespeare explored with Hamlet the world of the bourgeoisie and doubt in ascendance.

Book Americanos

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  • Author : John Chasteen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0195178815
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Americanos written by John Chasteen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1808, world history took a decisive turn when Napoleon occupied Spain and Portugal, a European event that had lasting repercussions more than half the world away, sparking a series of revolutions throughout the Spanish and Portuguese empires of the New World. These wars for independence resulted eventually in the creation of nineteen independent Latin American republics.Here is an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years. Here are the famous leaders--Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, and Bernardo O'Higgins, Father Hidalgo and Father Morelos, and many others. Here too are lesser known Americanos: patriot women such as Manuela Saenz, Leona Vicario, Mariquita Sanchez, Juana Azurduy, and Policarpa Salavarrieta, indigenous rebels such as Mateo Pumacahua, and African-descended generals such as Vicente Guerrero and Manuel Piar. Chasteen captures the gathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin American societies as they embraced nationhood. By the end of the period, the leaders of Latin American independence would embrace classical liberal principles--particularly popular sovereignty and self-determination--and permanently expanding the global reach of Western political values.Today, most of the world's oldest functioning republics are Latin American. And yet, Chasteen observes, many suffer from a troubled political legacy that dates back to their birth. In this book, he illuminates this legacy, even as he illustrates how the region's dramatic struggle for independence points unmistakably forward in world history.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence written by Marcela Echeverri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical contributions to the broader historiography. Organized thematically and across different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish and Luso America, the essays deepen well-known conclusions and reveal new interpretations. They offer analytical interventions that produce new questions on periodization, the meaning of anti-colonialism, liberalism, and republicanism, as well as the militarization of societies, public opinion, the role of sciences, labor regimes, and gender dynamics. A much-needed addition to the existing scholarship, this volume brings a transnational perspective to a critical period of history in Latin America.

Book A Woman  a Man  a Nation

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  • Author : Jeffrey M. Shumway
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN : 0826360912
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book A Woman a Man a Nation written by Jeffrey M. Shumway and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837 Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Leaving was especially hard because Mariquita felt that she had played an influential role in transforming Buenos Aires from a Spanish colonial outpost into a brilliant capital in a world of republics. Juan Manuel de Rosas’s version of order alienated Mariquita, who chose self-imposed exile in Montevideo over living under Rosas’s stifling rule. The struggle went on for nearly two decades until Mariquita finally came home for good in 1852 while Rosas went into exile. Mariquita’s and Juan Manuel’s lives corresponded with the major events and processes that shaped the turbulent beginnings of the Argentine nation, many of which also shaped Latin America and the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution (1750–1850). Their lives provide an overarching narrative for Argentine history that both scholars and students will find intriguing.

Book Bolivar

Download or read book Bolivar written by Marie Arana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman examines his life against a backdrop of the tensions of nineteenth-century South America, covering his achievements as a strategist, abolitionist, and diplomat.

Book The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions  Volume 3  The Iberian Empires

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions Volume 3 The Iberian Empires written by Wim Klooster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III covers the Iberian Empires and stresses the ethnic dimension of the independent processes in Spanish America and Brazil. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in the Iberian Empires.

Book The Independence of Chile

Download or read book The Independence of Chile written by Adam Stuart Muir Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia  The Century Cyclopedia of names

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century Cyclopedia of names written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Age Magazine

Download or read book The New Age Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: