Author: Floyd Merrell
Publisher: UPA
ISBN: 0761868011
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 316
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Las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas has been updated. This textbook not only describes the history of Latin America, but it sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of how Columbus's voyages gave rise to utopian dreams, the ramifications of which led to a brilliant display of hybrid cultures, changed the ethnic composition of two continents, accelerated lines of commerce, and refashioned the Western World's diet. The textbook takes the reader through the "discovery," conquest, and colonization of the New World and on to independence and the national period. In addition, each chapter offers general concepts, important terms, questions, and topics for classroom debates. Comprehensive and compelling, this book chronicles the history of an important region in a way that will interest students and teachers alike.
Author: Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 448
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Author: Susan Nichols
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1538301075
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 50
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Latin America’s population is estimated to be well over half a billion people, almost one-tenth of the world’s population, living in thirty-three different countries and territories. This engrossing book explores the people of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies and provides extensive detail on their diverse cultures. An authoritative overview of the varied and rich traditions of each of these regions is presented, as well as a thorough discussion of the religions, languages, and ethnicities of Latin Americans.
Author: Carlos Monsiváis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 260
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Con ocasión del Premio Anagrama de Ensayo, que ha ganado por unanimidad con "Aires de familia", tenemos el honor de presentar al lector español a Carlos Monsiváis, uno de los grandes intelectuales latinoamericanos de nuestro tiempo y una conciencia crítica, lúcida e insobornable, en un ensayo ágil y sagaz, documentado y crítico, que se convertirá en una imprescindible obra de referencia. Han sido evidentes los «aires de familia» de las sociedades hispanoamericanas. En el patrimonio inicial participan el mismo idioma, con ajustes nacionales, la misma religión mayoritaria, con realidades espirituales marcadas por imágenes poderosas, la misma división entre liberales y conservadores o entre izquierda (fluctuante) y derecha (inamovible). A esto se añaden las formaciones de la historia, la literatura, la música, la norteamericanización, la explosión demográfica, las interminables ampliaciones urbanas, la desintegración rural. En las décadas recientes, a los «aires de familia» los afina y subraya la diversidad, que genera una nueva cultura latinoamericana caracterizada por la abundancia de opciones religiosas, el avance de la tolerancia, la democratización del ánimo social, la presencia creciente de la sociedad civil, la influencia de las tesis feministas, los movimientos y personas marginadas que se vuelven de algún modo centrales, etcétera. En veinte o treinta años América Latina es, en relación a su pasado, «la continuidad irreconocible», las semejanzas fragmentarias y las innovaciones profundas. Este ensayo es una aproximación a cambios y permanencias de la cultura latinoamericana en el siglo XX, en un panorama que va del culto a los héroes a la sociedad del espectáculo, de las migraciones culturales a la influencia de Hollywood en las sociedades en penumbras, del canon literario al idioma televisivo, de la fe devocional en la revolución a los proyectos democráticos. "Aires de familia" describe la unidad visible y profunda de naciones que comparten las sensaciones del abandono, las realidades de la desigualdad y, pese a todo, la fe en la democracia.
Author: Dina V. Picotti C.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789507350078
Category : Civilization
Languages : es
Pages : 94
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Author: Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780075541257
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 420
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Author: Mariano Picón-Salas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520363345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This 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 1962.
Author: Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 428
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A standard text in Latin American culture courses, this unique collection of diverse readings and exclusive interviews focuses on the dynamic tension between tradition and change in contemporary Latin American culture from the Caribbean to Central and South America, including Brazil. The thematic approach of "Tradició n y cambio" highlights key issues in Latin American culture; the selections explore how those issues (such as urbanization or the changing role of the family) alter, enrich, or confound the traditional cultural values and institutions.
Author: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022670520X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively. Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three interlocking steps: first, an intellectual history of the concept of Latin America in its natural historical habitat—mid-nineteenth-century redefinitions of empire and the cultural, political, and economic intellectualism; second, a serious and uncompromising critique of the current “Latin Americanism”—which circulates in United States–based humanities and social sciences; and, third, accepting that we might actually be stuck with “Latin America,” Tenorio-Trillo charts a path forward for the writing and teaching of Latin American history. Accessible and forceful, rich in historical research and specificity, the book offers a distinctive, conceptual history of Latin America and its many connections and intersections of political and intellectual significance. Tenorio-Trillo’s book is a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Author: Benjamin Keen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429718063
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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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.
