Sydamerika

From Fanatics to Folk rejects conventional understandings of Brazilian millenarianism as exceptional and self-defeating. Considering millenarianism over the long sweep of Brazilian …

Latin American women were among those who led the suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their opposition to military dictatorships has galvanized …

For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. All around him friends and acquaintances were "disappearing". Although the slightest …

The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of So Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the 'Old House', it was also highly unusual in …

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit-they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But …

Sea Robber by Tim Severin is the third swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and …

'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' is the only comprehensive guidebook about the peaks of the Andes.This is the 5th English edition of the only complete guidebook to the peaks of …

Some countries develop illegal drugs industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics-social, economic, and political-of countries with these industries …

Kaiowcide: Living through the Guarani-Kaiowa Genocide is an analysis of the genocidal violence perpetrated against indigenous peoples in Brazil and towards the Guarani-Kaiowa. The …

La obra rastrea los orígenes del compromiso revolucionario del escritor de Operación Masacre y ¿Quién mató a Rosendo?, especialmente durante los años de su primer viaje a Cuba …