Historical Dictionary of Peru
Author: Marvin Alisky
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
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Historical Dictionary of Peru
Author: Peter F. Klarén
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-09-22
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 153810668X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 10,000 years of history, Peru, with its formidable Inca and pre-Inca civilizations and its rich colonial and post-colonial past, formed the very foundations of multi-ethnic South American history and society. It is a country rich in natural and human resources, but has been largely confined to a state of underdevelopment for much of its history. However, since 2000 Peru has shown significant signs of economic and political progress as its economy grew rapidly and it polity democratized. The Historical Dictionary of Peru packages in a unique way the course of Peru’s evolution and recent trajectory, with substantial sections devoted to describing and analyzing the country’s history, politics and social order, combined with shorter entries on the important people and events that have contributed to its current state of affairs. It also includes a comprehensive profile of the country based on an array of data, tables and statistics. In short, PERU will be an indispensable introduction and source for high school, college and graduate students, travelers and tourists and American government and business personnel with Peru as a destination. The Historical Dictionary of Peru contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America
Author: Martin Giesso
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-03-12
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1538102374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth America is a vast, relatively isolated, landmass that includes 12 independent countries and one region (Guyane Française) with diverse ethnic groups speaking hundreds of different languages and dialects, and extraordinary creativity. Indigenous people have occupied its different habitats while transforming the landscape and themselves, with extraordinary dedication and success. This dictionary opens a window to these peoples through many entries, in an integrated approach that allows to connect the multiple facets of indigenous life before 1492. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and the culture of ancient South America. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about ancient South America.
Historical Dictionary of Chile
Author: Salvatore Bizzarro
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-02-13
Total Pages: 1135
ISBN-13: 1442276355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume Historical Dictionary of Chile covers the economy and the environment, political parties and history, and reprehensible period of dictatorship during a crucial time in Chile’s history. The end of the iron-fist rule of Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973 until 1990, however, allowed a return to democratic rule, and the country kept searching for coherence and unity in national life among diverse and often discordant elements. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chile contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chile.
Historical Dictionary of Mexico
Author: Donald C. Briggs
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780810813915
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Historical Dictionary of Bolivia
Author: Dwight B. Heath
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
Author: Richard Young
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-12-18
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 0810874989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, ranging from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history. The introduction provides a review of Latin American literature and theater as a whole while separate dictionary entries for each country offer insight into the history of national literatures. Entries for literary terms, movements, and genres serve to complement these commentaries, and an extensive bibliography points the way for further reading. The comprehensive view and detailed information obtained from all these elements will make this book of use to the general-interest reader, Latin American studies students, and the academic specialist.
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975
Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This authoritative reference book looks at the process by which Spain extended its influence throughout the modern world. It provides more than 1,200 brief descriptive essays covering colonies, individuals, political institutions, legislation, treaties, conferences, wars, revolutions, technologies, social and religious groups, and military battles. References at the end of each entry provide sources of additional information for those wishing to pursue the subject further. Cross-references within the text, designated by an asterisk, will help the reader to find related items." -- Publisher.
Historical Dictionary of United States-Latin American Relations
Author: Joseph Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006-12-05
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0810864711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the Reagan Doctrine of the 1980s, the United States has presumed a position of political leadership and pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere. This has been made possible by two main factors: America's huge economy, which has made the U.S. the largest single commercial market and the biggest investor in Latin America, and America's military prowess, which has been convincingly demonstrated in victories in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Spanish-American War (1898). This volume concentrates on the history of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the nations of Latin America from the creation of the independent United States in the late eighteenth century up to the present. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries involved, significant events, major crises, important figures, controversial issues, and doctrines and policies that have evolved. For scholars, historians, and students interested in the diplomacy of these two regions, the Historical Dictionary of United States-Latin American Relations is an essential reference.
Historical Dictionary of Venezuela
Author: Donna Keyse Rudolph
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1000
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is an expansion and revision of the 1971 edition. The alphabetically arranged entries include information about persons, places, events, and organizations in Venezuela through 1990. There is now information about the political antecedents of the states, the federal territories, the Federal District, and the major and historically significant cities. It contains a greatly expanded bibliography of books in English and Spanish, and a chronology of significant events in Venezuelan history has been added.
