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Book The Epic of Latin America  Fourth Edition

Download or read book The Epic of Latin America Fourth Edition written by John A. Crow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-17 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, this book has been revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s.

Book Epic of Latin America  Fourth Edition

Download or read book Epic of Latin America Fourth Edition written by John A. Crow and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, The Epic of Latin America is once again revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for outstanding literary achievement by a California author and was selected by the American Library Association as one of the "fifty best books of the year."

Book The Epic of Latin America

Download or read book The Epic of Latin America written by John Armstrong Crow and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Faces of Latin America

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  • Author : Duncan Green
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 158367327X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Faces of Latin America written by Duncan Green and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 military leaders, death squads, and guerrilla movements to celebrate the vibrant history and culture of Latin America’s people. Faces of Latin America examines some of the key forces—from conquest and the growth of the commodity trade, military rule, land distribution, industrialization, and migration to civil wars and revolutions, the debt crisis, neoliberalism, and NAFTA—shaping the region’s political and social history. Green also analyzes the response to these transformations—the rise of freedom fighters and populists, guerrilla wars and grassroots social movements, union organizing and trade movements, liberation theology, and the women’s movement, sustainable development and the fight for the rainforest, popular culture and the mass media—providing a fascinating and unparalleled portrait of the continent. This new edition is thoroughly updated and covers recent developments in Latin America such as the growing costs of export agriculture, the rise of Brazilian manufacturing, connections between the war on drugs and the war on terror, the social costs of neoliberalism, the Argentinian default, the search for new economic models in Venezuela and elsewhere, the decline in direct U.S. military intervention in the region, growing urbanization, urban poverty and casual employment, outmigration and the importance of family remittances from abroad, rampant environmental destruction, the struggles of indigenous movements, and more.

Book Born in Blood and Fire

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  • Author : John Charles Chasteen
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2023-11-15
  • ISBN : 9781324069812
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Born in Blood and Fire written by John Charles Chasteen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Blood and Fire pioneered an integrative approach to teaching Latin America history. Combining a regional perspective with a chronological framework, it enables students to more clearly see connections and comparisons that span several countries. In the Fifth Edition, John Chasteen expands the examination of Colombia's surging influence in the region and places greater emphasis on Latin America's connections to the Pacific world. The new Norton Illumine Ebook provides the best opportunity for students to grasp major developments and check their understanding as they read.

Book Latin America and the United States     Fourth Edition  Thoroughly Revised

Download or read book Latin America and the United States Fourth Edition Thoroughly Revised written by Graham Henry STUART and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Born in Blood   Fire

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  • Author : John Charles Chasteen
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780393283051
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Born in Blood Fire written by John Charles Chasteen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

Book What is Latin American History

Download or read book What is Latin American History written by Marshall Eakin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past half-century, from the dominance of social history to the cultural turn. He surveys innovative work on topics including slavery, indigenous peoples, race, the environment, science, medicine, and gender, and ends with a discussion of the emergence of the concepts of borderlands, the Atlantic world, and transnational history – that both enrich and challenge the very idea of Latin America. This concise volume offers the first broad overview of Latin American history and historiography for students, scholars, and the general reader, outlining the key social, cultural, and political forces that have shaped both Latin America and its study.

Book The Epic of Latin America

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  • Author : John A. Crow
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780520037762
  • Pages : 964 pages

Download or read book The Epic of Latin America written by John A. Crow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, this book has been revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s.

Book Born in Blood and Fire

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  • Author : John Charles Chasteen
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2001-01
  • ISBN : 9780393976137
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Born in Blood and Fire written by John Charles Chasteen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Latin America spans six centuries and encompasses twenty countries as it discusses the people, events, and factors that shaped the region--including colonization, revolution, and the struggle for political and social equality.

Book Born in Blood and Fire

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  • Author : John Charles Chasteen
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780393283068
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Born in Blood and Fire written by John Charles Chasteen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion reader to the most readable, highly regarded, and affordable history of Latin America for our times.

Book Centuries of Silence

Download or read book Centuries of Silence written by Leonardo Ferreira and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Latin American journalism is ultimately the story of a people who have been silenced over the centuries, primarily Native Americans, women, peasants, and the urban poor. This book seeks to correct the record propounded by most English-language surveys of Latin American journalism, which tend to neglect pre-Columbian forms of reporting, the ways in which technology has been used as a tool of colonization, and the Latin American conceptual foundations of a free press. Challenging the conventional notion of a free marketplace of ideas in a region plagued with serious problems of poverty, violence, propaganda, political intolerance, poor ethics, journalism education deficiencies, and media concentration in the hands of an elite, Ferreira debunks the myth of a free press in Latin America. The diffusion of colonial presses in the New World resulted in the imposition of a structural censorship with elements that remain to this day. They include ethnic and gender discrimination, technological elitism, state and religious authoritarianism, and ideological controls. Impoverished, afraid of crime and violence, and without access to an effective democracy, ordinary Latin Americans still live silenced by ruling actors that include a dominant and concentrated media. Thus, not only is the press not free in Latin America, but it is also itself an instrument of oppression.

Book Latin America  Second Edition

Download or read book Latin America Second Edition written by Robert B. Kent and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography and regional complexity. It traces Latin America's historical developments while revealing the diversity of its people and places. Coverage encompasses cultural history, environment and physical geography, urban development, agriculture and land use, social and economic processes, and the contemporary patterns of Latin American diaspora. -- Publisher description

Book Latin American Civilization

Download or read book Latin American Civilization written by Benjamin Keen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of Latin American Civilization is a compact update of a classic book of readings that teachers and students of Latin American history have used and appreciated since its first appearance in 1955. Returning to the single-volume format, this edition combines the best of the old collection with new material on recent developments in Latin American politics and society. Particular care has been taken to bring the chapters on the twentieth century up to date. Among the new selections are pieces on the Church’s role in the Nicaraguan revolution, the Malvinas/Falklands war, the struggle for democracy in Argentina and Brazil, and women’s liberation in Cuba. The great majority of selections are primary materials. These personal narratives—many translated by Dr. Keen for this collection—convey the flavor and spirit of a period more vividly than official documents and are generally better written. Secondary works are used only when suitable contemporary material was not available. The brief introductions and headnotes, which provide students with background information on the authors and subject matter, have been updated to reflect the best recent scholarship. This lively, entertaining, and informative book is an excellent companion for all texts on Latin American history, although its organization and outlook conform most closely to that of Keen and Wasserman’s Short History of Latin America.

Book The Conquests of Alexander the Great

Download or read book The Conquests of Alexander the Great written by Waldemar Heckel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greece.

Book Born in Blood and Fire

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  • Author : John Charles Chasteen
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780393144925
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Born in Blood and Fire written by John Charles Chasteen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mano a Mano  Portugu  s para Falantes de Espanhol

Download or read book Mano a Mano Portugu s para Falantes de Espanhol written by Ana Cecília Cossi Bizon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol vem preencher uma importante lacuna no mercado editorial: a carência de livros didáticos que, considerando as necessidades específicas de falantes de espanhol, favoreçam um desenvolvimento mais rápido de sua proficiência em português. A coleção reúne uma série de características favoráveis à aprendizagem do português em diferentes contextos (ensino médio, universidades, cursos livres): Convida o(a) aluno(a) a desenvolver sua proficiência em português ao mesmo tempo que forma uma imagem multifacetada do Brasil, em diálogo com suas próprias construções culturais, desconstruindo discursos estabilizados e ampliando seus horizontes; Favorece o trânsito por múltiplas práticas de letramento, em que circulam diferentes gêneros discursivos, oferecendo oportunidades para que o(a) estudante aprimore suas capacidades de linguagem em contextos reais, ou próximos a situações autênticas de interação; Sensibiliza o(a) aluno(a) para diferentes variedades da língua portuguesa; Permite ao(à) estudante desenvolver suas capacidades léxico-gramaticais e fonético-fonológicas de maneira reflexiva e contextualizada, levando em consideração necessidades específicas de falantes de espanhol; Propõe tarefas semelhantes às encontradas no Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (Celpe-Bras), do Ministério da Educação brasileiro; É acompanhado por dois cadernos complementares integrados, com explicações detalhadas referentes a recursos léxico-gramaticais e fonético-fonológicos, além de uma série de atividades; Disponibiliza online os vídeos e áudios de tarefas de compreensão oral e de atividades de pronúncia. Preparado para o desenvolvimento de um curso de até 60 horas em contexto de imersão, ou 90 horas de não-imersão, Mano a Mano, Volume 1 – Básico permite levar falantes de espanhol (como língua materna ou estrangeira/adicional) que nunca tiveram contato significativo prévio com o português até o início do nível Intermediário do Celpe-Bras, do B1 do Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para as Línguas, ou do Intermediário Médio do American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.