Download or read book South American Chronicles written by Steve Toon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOUTH AMERICAN CHRONICLES is a rich travelogue recounting Steve Toon's six-month overland journey from Caracas to Patagonia and back up to Rio. Beckoned by ads in adventure travel magazines, Steve resigns his job and finally decides to "just do it." His adventures include a peek behind the world's highest waterfall and an encounter with the famous hermit that first walked to them; a slow boat journey up the heart of the Amazon River; a grueling trek to summit a dormant volcano; a boat expedition into the piranha-infested rivers of the Ecuadorian jungle; a long walkabout over the Inca Trail to the Lost City of Machu Picchu; a jeep tour across the exotic wastelands of southern Bolivia; and a pilgrimage to Patagonia's Torres del Paine.
Download or read book The American Chronicles of Jos Marti written by Susana Rotker and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of a key Latin American writer and thinker.
Download or read book The First Latin American Debt Crisis written by Frank Griffith Dawson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes a neglected but fascinating chapter in Anglo-Latin American relations, the disastrous 1822-25 investment boom. During this brief period, British investors lost £21 million in defaulted Latin America as an area for capital investment for a generation. Today Latin America owes its banking and other anxious international creditors over $400 billion, and amount that is unlikely to be repaid. Valuable lessons can be learned by studying the nineteenth-century antecedents of the current situation. Frank Griffith Dawson explores in depth the origins and consequences of the first Latin American debt crisis, interweaving economic details with the broader historical context of society, government, and diplomacy of the period. His wide-ranging discussion includes descriptions of the vicissitudes of the loans, bond issues, and speculative ventures in mining and agriculture, life styles of the various Latin American agents who were empowered to negotiate loans for the new states, the sometimes dishonest British banking and stock broking figured involved in the transactions, and the unfailing gullibility of the investing public. Dawson’s saga sheds light not only capital-exporting nation, but also on a London, when its institutions first began wholeheartedly to adapt themselves to their roles as the financial arbiters of the world. This readable and entertaining book will be of interest to students of Latin American and European economic history. It will also be instructive reading to politicians, stockbrokers, bankers, and lawyers who are attempting to deal with the consequences of the latest Latin American lending boom.
Download or read book The Chronicles of America Series Yale course of home study written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transnational South America written by Ori Preuss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America: the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis, and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the U.S. as the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued, brought segments of South America’s capital cities not only close to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to each other both physically and mentally, creating and recreating spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the national and regional levels.
Download or read book The Red Man s Continent A Chronicle of Aboriginal America written by Ellsworth Huntington and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable work aims to present the main facts about the geographical environment of American history. The author accurately represents the overarching paradigms of the day, both geographical and racial. In addition, this work includes a vivid description of the settings and geographical character of the American continent.
Download or read book Gardeners Chronicle of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism written by Pablo Calvi and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalismexplores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a supra-national entity. This work discusses the impact that the form had in the creation of an original Latin American literature during six historical moments. Beginning in the 1840s and ending in the 1970s, Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America’s literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, the development of the modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states in the region.
Download or read book The Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jefferson and His Colleagues A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty written by Allen Johnson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers Thomas Jefferson's presidency as the U.S.'s third president. He was previously the second vice president of the United States under John Adams and the first United States secretary of state under George Washington. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation.
Download or read book The American Jewish Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Market World and Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Market World and Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
