"A first-hand account of the internationally renowned movement protesting against femicide and violence against women"--
"Political (In)Justice compares the legal aspects of political repression in three recent military regimes: Brazil (1964-1985), Chile (1973-1990), and Argentina (1976-1983). By focusing on political trials as a reflection of each regime's overall approach to the law, Anthony Per…
"Political (In)Justice compares the legal aspects of political repression in three recent military regimes: Brazil (1964-1985), Chile (1973-1990), and Argentina (1976-1983). By focusing on political trials as a reflection of each regime's overall approach to the law, Anthony Per…
"In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional c…
Introduction / Debbie Lee-DiStefano -- Part I. Encounters : Moving past encounters : people of Asian descent in the Americas / Kathleen López -- Yellow blindness in a black and white ethnoscape : Chinese influence and heritage in Afro-Cuban religiosity / Martin A. Tsang -- Disru…
Historia económica de la Argentina en el siglo XIX
by Hora, Roy
fromBiblioteca básica de historia
Desde la caída de Perón en 1955 hasta la primera década del siglo XXI, la historia argentina se ha caracterizado por la inestabilidad y el desacuerdo. Entre la igualdad distributiva y la polarización social, entre el autoritarismo y la democracia, esta etapa puede ser comprendid…
"Desde la caída de Perón en 1955 hasta la primera década del siglo XXI, la historia argentina se ha caracterizado por la inestabilidad y el desacuerdo. Entre la igualdad distributiva y la polarización social, entre el autoritarismo y la democracia, esta etapa puede ser comprendi…
"Olga Orozco, considered one of the most important contemporary women poets in Latin America, serves as the touchstone for Jill Kuhnheim's examination of the tension between literature and life - or, as Kuhnheim quotes a student, of the universal question "Why read poetry?""--BO…
"Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character--a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador L…
In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic Isabella Cosse examines the history, political commentary, and influence of the world-famous comic character Mafalda from her Argentine origins in 1964 to her global reach in the 1990s.
"Macedonio Fernandez (1874-1952) is widely regarded as a key figure in Argentine letters - mentor to Jorge Luis Borges, precursor of the avant-garde, and father of the Martinfierrista generation. Yet critics have persisted in viewing Macedonio's writing as asystematic, irreducib…