'Golazo!' recounts the story of Latin American football: the extravagantly talented players; pistol-toting referees; bloody coup d'etats; breath-taking goals; invidious conspiracies; strikers with matinee idol looks and a taste for tango dancers; alcoholism; suicide and some of …
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities. From Chile to Brazil, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers people who have begun rebuilding and redesigning their environments in radi…
Foreword - Sonia Picado Sotela 1. Women's International Human Rights Law: The Way Forward - Rebecca J. 2. To Bellow like a Cow: Women, Ethnicity, and the Discourse of Rights 3. What are "Women's International Human Rights"? Hilary Charlesworth 4. State Responsibility Goes Pr…
The Rough guide to Bolivia
by Griffin, Brendon, Read, Alan, Meghji, Shafik
fromRough guides
This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories related by western travellers, scientists and writers who have had contact with ayah…
Latin America's Second Independence ; Global Crisis and Latin American Tendencies : the Political Economy of the new Latin American Left ; Contemporary Latin American inequality : class Struggle, Decolonization, and the Limits of liberal Citizenship ; The Indigenous Community as…
Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema covers the history of South American Cinema through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, per…
"A student-friendly text that tells the story of the development of the Andean republics and their people by emphasizing the themes of continuity and change over time. Henderson presents a succinct, narrative approach to Andean history that limits details about political coups a…
"A student-friendly text that tells the story of the development of the Andean republics and their people by emphasizing the themes of continuity and change over time. Henderson presents a succinct, narrative approach to Andean history that limits details about political coups a…
This new history examines the experiences of people from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking areas of Latin America and the Caribbean from the onset of independence in the late eighteenth century until the present
