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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 96,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-3688-7
EAN 9781469636887
The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods.They found a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 79,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-4539-1
EAN 9781469645391
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.Richly situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 96,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-4535-3
EAN 9781469645353
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 48,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8263-6001-4
EAN 9780826360014
Tutino offers a new vision of the political violence and social conflicts that led to the fall of silver capitalism and Mexican independence in 1821.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14129-9
EAN 9780349141299
Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages, Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 34,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-793-7
EAN 9781846147937
Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and WITNESSED scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Its native people both revolutionized Europe's ideas of itself and were then subject ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0531-3
EAN 9781526605313
A reissue of the beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo, publishing in time for a major London exhibitionFrida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 48,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8263-5961-2
EAN 9780826359612
This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries' imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-105-1
EAN 9781786891051
VIRGINIA VALLEJO:Top Colombian television journalist, cover model and socialitePABLO ESCOBAR:Head of the Medellin cartel, the founder of the global cocaine industry and one of the most ambitious - and brutal - criminals in historyOver the course of their tempestuous love affair, Vallejo witnessed first-hand the bloodshed, fear and corruption that accompanied the rise of Escobar's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 236 páginas
PVP: 45,20 €
ISBN 978-0-8265-2192-7
EAN 9780826521927
A fresh perspective on a Revolutionary era, focusing on the role of Afro-Caribbean privateers in the struggle for South American independence from Spain
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-06-242726-7
EAN 9780062427267
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the AmericasOn November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction-the prelude to the Spanish seizure of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16144-0
EAN 9780691161440
A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth century By the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on a political experiment of an unprecedented scale outside the newly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 35,65 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29030-3
EAN 9780520290303
Economic and social development is a major topic of discussion in courses across the social sciences, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem of underdevelopment in Latin America. New ideas have led to new strategies that have, by and large, failed to reduce ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22465-8
EAN 9780300224658
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent." The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid suggests that much of Central and South America, though less poor, less unequal, and better educated than ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-507-9
EAN 9781786695079
Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary city is cursed: to enter it is a death sentence. They call it the Lost ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 41,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97234-6
EAN 9780674972346
Focusing on ordinary Mexicans and Americans, Peter Guardino offers a clearer picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. He shows how dramatically U.S. forces underestimated Mexicans' patriotism, fierce resistance, and bitter resentment of American claims to national and racial superiority.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73731-0
EAN 9780674737310
In 1654, Englands Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spains vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take Spanish colonies. The English Conquest of Jamaica presents entrenched imperial fantasies confronting Caribbean realities. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 10,73 €
ISBN 978-1-78503-514-2
EAN 9781785035142
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar - from books to film to the cult series 'Narcos'. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and never from ...
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