Download or read book The Indian in Latin American History written by John E. Kicza and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially decimated by disease and later faced with the loss of their lands and their political autonomy, Latin American Indians have displayed remarkable resilience. They have resisted cultural hegemony with rebellions and have initiated petitions to demand remedies to injustices, while consciously selecting certain aspects of the West to incorporate into their cultures. Leading historians, anthropologists and sociologists examine Indian-Western relationships from the Spaniards' initial contact with the Incas to the cultural interplay of today's Latin America. This revised edition contains four brand new chapters and a revised introduction. The list of suggested readings and films has also been updated.
Download or read book The Indian in Latin American History written by John E. Kicza and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from being a footnote in Latin American history, Indians form the structure upon which Latin American history is based. More than ten million Indians were organized into many complex cultures and societies thousands of years before Europeans reached their hemisphere. In The Indian in Latin American History, Professor John E. Kicza compiles articles by leading historians and anthropologists to examine the complex interplay of Indian and Western cultures. The ten articles in this work explore Indian-Western relations from initial contact to contemporary struggles for cultural identity.
Download or read book The Indian Background of Latin American History written by Robert Wauchope and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Latin America written by Benjamin Keen and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Latin American history, emphasizing the relationship of Latin America to wealthier nations such as colonial Spain and the US today. This text examines society, culture and geographic background, from prehistoric times to the present. Ancillary package available upon adoption.
Download or read book Guide to Latin American History written by Halford Lancaster Hoskins and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture written by Barbara A. Tenenbaum and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strives to organize knowledge of the region. It contains nearly 5,300 separate articles. Most topics appear in English alphabetical order.
Download or read book A Reference Guide to Latin American History written by James D. Henderson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Latin American history includes a chronology of key events from pre-Columbian history through the present, a thematic survey following each topic (economic change, cultural development, politics and government) across time, and 300 biographies of Latin Americans throughout history.
Download or read book Interpreting Latin American History from Independence to Today written by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1970 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Latin America written by James Lockhart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the independence of the Spanish American countries and Brazil serves as an introduction to this quickly changing field of study.
Download or read book The Colonial Period in Latin American History written by Charles Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People and Issues in Latin American History written by Lewis Hanke and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This works includes topics such as the transit of civilization, relations between Indians and Spaniards, population questions, the crisis of 17th-century Brazil, the development of society, the introduction of African slavery in Spanish America and crisis and climax in the 18th century.
Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Donald F. Stevens and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining history with discussions of dramatic cinema, Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies examines how film has portrayed Latin America from the late fifteenth century to the present. The book opens with an introduction on the visual presentation of the past in the movies, while the rest of the book consists of essays that explore the best feature films on Latin America from the professional historian's perspective.
Download or read book Readings in Latin American History The formative centuries written by Peter John Bakewell and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings in Latin American History The modern experience written by Peter John Bakewell and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American History written by Howard Francis Cline and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Witness to Sovereignty written by Stefano Varese and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book spans more than 30 years of history, the same three decades in which indigenous sovereignty' emerged from five centuries of banishment as an unauthorized and unspeakable taboo to become a major topic of national political contention. Varese is both the author of this fascinating chronicle and a key actor in the very process and transformations that he narrates. The arenas of these political practices have an impressive scope: denouncement in international forums of repression against indigenous peoples; work on international legal instruments for indigenous rights; a pioneering land titling program for indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon; innovative bilingual-transcultural education and cultural worker' training in Oaxaca; work with transnational organizations of indigenous immigrants in California. This book also breaks ground theoretically, by offering a creative fusion of a political economy' analytical frame with ethnography sensitive to the meaning, premises, politics and imaginaries of indigenous peoples' cultural production and resources--what might be called indigenous hermeneutics. This book allows the reader to become a witness to sovereignty, by following Varese's 30-year odyssey of politically engaged scholarship on and with indigenous movements of Latin America." --Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin, President, Latin American Studies Association Stefano Varese is a Peruvian anthropologist with many years' experience in Peru's Amazonian region, southeastern Mexico, Central America, and the trans-border region of Mexico and California. His publications include Salt of the Mountain, Indgenas y Educacin en Mxico, Proyectos Etnicos y Proyectos Nacionales, Pueblos indios, soberana y globalismo, and La Ruta Mixteca. Varese is currently professor and chair of the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis and director of the Indigenous Research Centers of the Americas at UC Davis.
Download or read book Silver Sword and Stone written by Marie Arana and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “Meticulously researched, [this] book’s greatest strengths are the power of its epic narrative, the beauty of its prose, and its rich portrayals of character…Marvelous” (The Washington Post). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. And now, just as then, a miner’s survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. His story echoes the violence that has coursed through the Americas since before Columbus to the crushing savagery of the Spanish Conquest, and from 19th- and 20th-century wars and revolutions to the military crackdowns that convulse Latin America to this day. Xavier Albó is a Jesuit priest from Barcelona who emigrated to Bolivia, where he works among the indigenous people. He considers himself an Indian in head and heart and, for this, is well known in his adopted country. Although his aim is to learn rather than proselytize, he is an inheritor of a checkered past, where priests marched alongside conquistadors, converting the natives to Christianity, often forcibly, in the effort to win the New World. Ever since, the Catholic Church has played a central role in the political life of Latin America—sometimes for good, sometimes not. In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).
