The Politics of Population in Brazil

Peter McDonough

• Paperback | Engels | Texas Pan American
• The population of Brazil increased tenfold, from 10 to over 100 million, between 1880 and 1980, nearly half of this increase occurring since the end o... Lees meer

A Mexican Family Empire

Charles H Harris

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• Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate--the hacienda. In Mexico, the la... Lees meer

The Spanish American Novel

John S Brushwood

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• In The Spanish American Novel , John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. I... Lees meer

Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850-1930

E Bradford Burns

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• The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in... Lees meer

A Rosario Castellanos Reader

Rosario Castellanos

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• Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This... Lees meer

Memoirs of Pancho Villa

Martín Luis Guzmán

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• This is a tale that might be told around a campfire, night after night in the midst of a military campaign. The kinetic and garrulous Pancho Villa tal... Lees meer

Pulltrouser Swamp

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• Among Mesoamericanists, the agricultural basis of the ancient Maya civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula has been an important topic of research-and c... Lees meer

Jarano

Ramón Beteta

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• Ramón Beteta was an important figure in Mexican life: politician, Cabinet member, diplomat, economist, professor, journalist. The manuscript of Jarano... Lees meer

Carlos Fuentes

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• Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has su... Lees meer

Prophet in the Wilderness

Peter G Earle

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• A universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. Prophet in the Wilderness traces the development of that resp... Lees meer

El Inca

John Grier Varner

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• Garcilaso de la Vega, the great chronicler of the Incas and the conquistadors, was born in Cuzco in 1539. At the age of twenty, he sailed to Spain to ... Lees meer

The Fragmented Novel in Mexico

Carol Clark D'Lugo

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• From Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel Los de abajo to Rosamaría Roffiel's Amora of 1989, fragmented narrative has been one of the defining features of inno... Lees meer

The Writings of Carlos Fuentes

Raymond Leslie Williams

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• Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere... Lees meer

Medicine in Mexico

Gordon Schendel

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• A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched... Lees meer

Rereading the Spanish American Essay

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• Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet the... Lees meer

Psychology of the Mexican

R Díaz-Guerrero

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• In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoret... Lees meer

Woven on the Loom of Time

Enrique Anderson-Imbert

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• Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar to many North American students for his La Literatura de América Latina I and II, w... Lees meer

Family Ties

Clarice Lispector

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• The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward... Lees meer

Archeology and Volcanism in Central America

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• Scientists have long speculated on the impact of extreme natural catastrophes on human societies. Archeology and Volcanism in Central America provides... Lees meer

A Saint Is Born in Chima

Manuel Zapata Olivella

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• When the paralyzed cripple Domingo Vidal is rescued unsinged from a burning house, the people of Chima believe they have witnessed a miracle. Domingo ... Lees meer

Ancient Panama

Mary W Helms

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• Ancient Panama adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at the time of the European conquest. Mary W. Hel... Lees meer

The Wind That Swept Mexico

Anita Brenner

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• The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Díaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was the f... Lees meer

Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas

Victoria Reifler Bricker

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• Zinacantan, Chamula, and Chenalhó are neighboring Mayan communities situated in highland Chiapas, Mexico, near the city of San Cristóbal Las Casas. Th... Lees meer

The Yanoama Indians

William J Smole

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• The Yanoama are one of the most numerous remaining aboriginal populations of the South American tropical forests, and their large territory constitute... Lees meer