Author: Delfin Carbonell Basset
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071425322
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 803
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From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential language tool for libraries, advanced-level students, teachers, scholars, and lexicographers.
Author: Alan McPherson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857456954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Whether rising up from fiery leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro or from angry masses of Brazilian workers and Mexican peasants, anti U.S. sentiment in Latin America and the Caribbean today is arguably stronger than ever. It is also a threat to U.S. leadership in the hemisphere and the world. Where has this resentment come from? Has it arisen naturally from imperialism and globalization, from economic and social frustrations? Has it served opportunistic politicians? Does Latin America have its own style of anti Americanism? What about national variations? How does cultural anti Americanism affect politics, and vice versa? What roles have religion, literature, or cartoons played in whipping up sentiment against ‘el yanqui’? Finally, how has the United States reacted to all this? This book brings leaders in the field of U.S. Latin American relations together with the most promising young scholars to shed historical light on the present implications of hostility to the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. In essays that carry the reader from Revolutionary Mexico to Peronist Argentina, from Panama in the nineteenth century to the West Indies’ mid century independence movement, and from Colombian drug runners to liberation theologists, the authors unearth little known campaigns of resistance and probe deeper into episodes we thought we knew well. They argue that, for well over a century, identifying the United States as the enemy has rung true to Latin Americans and has translated into compelling political strategies. Combining history with political and cultural analysis, this collection breaks the mold of traditional diplomatic history by seeing anti Americanism through the eyes of those who expressed it. It makes clear that anti Americanism, far from being a post 9/11 buzzword, is rather a real force that casts a long shadow over U.S. Latin American relations.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Author: Rose Arny
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
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Languages : en
Pages : 2286
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Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Félix Rodríguez González
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 580
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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
