South American Dictators During the First Century of Independence
Author: Alva Curtis Wilgus
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 520
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Author: Alva Curtis Wilgus
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1963
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Washington University. Seminar Conference on Hispanic American Affairs
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 502
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Publisher: New York : Russell & Russell, c1937, 1963 printing.
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 502
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 502
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Harvey
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2002-06-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585672844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the lives and deaths of the seven Liberators, the men who led Latin America's fight for independence and won it in a span of only twenty years after three centuries of Spanish domination.
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marie Arana
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1501105019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 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).
Author: Jacques Lambert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-07-28
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0520315898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.