Author: Robert Southey
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: John Gimlette
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446494470
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid tourist. It doesn't even have its own guidebook. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new travel book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. The beguiling Paraguayans, despised and feared by their neighbours, are unfathomable. They adore Diana, Princess of Wales, as if she were still alive and hundreds volunteered to fight for Britain in the Falklands War. Their politics are Byzantine but when the Vice-President is murdered, they call in Scotland Yard. Discover more about the unique traditions of South American culture through this fascinating piece of travel journalism.

Author: Susan Hood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481430955
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a vision. An ingenious idea.

Author: William F. Jaenike
Publisher: Kirk House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This slice of 17th and 18th century western history is a saga of love, savage violence, and betrayal that reads like fiction. While it is centered on a famous Roman Catholic order, its international and religious scope makes it of interest to armchair historians of all beliefs including Protestants, Jews, agnostics and secular humanists. In colonial South America the Jesuits established missions among the Guarani. As the Portuguese and Spanish slavers descended on Paraguay, the Jesuits sought to protect these stone-age Indians in their missions. Their resistance to the colonists? attacks contributed to the political problems of the church with Catholic monarchs back in Europe. As a consequence, the monarchs pressured a frightened pope to abolish the Jesuit order. In the long, tortured history of European colonization of the Americas, these Jesuit ?Black Robes? in Paraguay stood out as a breed apart, even from their fellow Jesuits elsewhere. Leaders of the anti-Catholic, anti-Jesuit Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Raynal rallied to the side of these extraordinary Paraguay missionaries. Raynal wrote that never has so much good been done for mankind with so little evil. Ironically, the ?heretic? monarchs of Russia and Prussia invited hundreds of the former Jesuits to run their colleges. In doing so, they inadvertently saved these outcasts to become the nucleus around which a reinvigorated papacy would re-establish the Jesuit order forty years after its abolition.

Author: Marisa Palacios Knox
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003855547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."

Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307367193
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.

Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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Author: Tim Fulford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033977
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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This book explores the significance of the late poems of the Lake Poets and the establishment of their later careers.

Author: Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748641610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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An examination of Spanish America's impact on the British Romantic literary and political imagination.

Author: Robert Southey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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