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Paperback. During the patron saint fiesta in the town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset awaiting the entrance of the colourful dance troupes, or comparsas. The comparsas have become a powerful way for the local people to make sense of their place in the world. This text looks at this tradition. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 294 pages, 32 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; ASDX; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226520094
ISBN
9780226520094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.04

Paperback. This is a paired comparison of the eight Latin American countries with the longest history of urban commercial and industrial development: Brazil and Chile; Mexico and Venezuela; Uruguay and Colombia; and Argentina and Peru. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSA; 1KLSB; 1KLSC; 1KLSH; 1KLSR; 1KLSU; 1KLSV; GTF; JPA; KNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
904
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268017729
ISBN
9780268017729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 52.89

Paperback. Offers an account of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America. This book analyses the tragic destruction of that revolution. It states that in no other Central American country was US intervention so decisive and so ruinous, and shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single 'convenient villain'. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 line drawing, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 33. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691025568
ISBN
9780691025568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.05
€ 55.38

Paperback. Drawing on the challenges of urban expansion and increasing population density facing contemporary Brazil, Shifting Horizons is an interdisciplinary investigation of the treatment of social difference in documentary film and photography and its potential to effect social and political change. Series: Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSG; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781119328551
ISBN
9781119328551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.34

paperback. A catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind. Editor(s): Griffin, Nigel. Translator(s): Griffin, Nigel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2ADS; 3JB; DSBB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140445626
ISBN
9780140445626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? And how is it rebuilding itself after decades of violence? Num Pages: 288 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KLSC; DNJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959909
ISBN
9780241959909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JPS; KCLT1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804782302
ISBN
9780804782302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Regarded by many as one of the best critical books on Borges. Translator(s): Montero, Oscar. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822314202
ISBN
9780822314202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Author reconstructs the unwritten, taboo history of the Guatemalan civil war, focusing on the peasants who picked coffee, supported guerrilla movements of the 1970s and 1980s, and suffered the most when the military government retaliated with violence. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 14 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KL; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 171 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333685
ISBN
9780822333685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Num Pages: 224 pages, 484 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WCP; WCR; WFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 149.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887409615
ISBN
9780887409615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.46
€ 39.57

Paperback. Singing for the Dead chronicles how indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico's poorest state, have reversed decades of cultural and linguistic erosion by reviving and reinventing ethnic traditions, particularly by speaking and singing the local indigenous language. Num Pages: 328 pages, 23 photographs, 4 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354314
ISBN
9780822354314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308. . Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2., Aktualisier ed.
SKU
KEX0236598
ISBN
9780195128673
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308. . Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Edition
2., Aktualisier ed.
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0236599
ISBN
9780195128673
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283732
ISBN
9780520283732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Hardback. Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520283725
ISBN
9780520283725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 73.01

Paperback. .
Publisher
Career Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601633477
ISBN
9781601633477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.40

paperback. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador. Translator(s): Brakel, Arthur. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTS; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801852503
ISBN
9780801852503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.45

Hardback. A history of the society and economy of Sao Paulo from its origins to the introduction of coffee in the mid-19th century. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 tables, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804744652
ISBN
9780804744652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; KC; KJVS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634820035
ISBN
9781634820035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.13
€ 126.42

paperback. Editor(s): Lindert, Paul van; Verkoren, O.; Verkorm, Otto. Series: Latin America S. Num Pages: 145 pages, 22figs.17tabs. BIC Classification: 1KLS; GTF; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Thela Thesis
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789055380114
ISBN
9789055380114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.47

Paperback. Shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, this book highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on modern Peru. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KLSR; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322931
ISBN
9780822322931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 6 maps, 50 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KLCM; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292716414
ISBN
9780292716414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

Hardback. A portrayal of the troubled countries of Central America described by the author as he travels through them by train and bus. He witnesses political conflict and observes how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 113. Weight in Grams: 289.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747524335
ISBN
9780747524335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Hardcover. In 1975, the Mexican network, Televisa, broadcast the first "entertainment-education" soap opera. Nariman examines Sabido's model for entertainment-education television programming, paying particular attention to the application of communication and behavioural theories. Series: Media & Society. Num Pages: 184 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; APT; JFD; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780275943899
ISBN
9780275943899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.68
€ 62.70

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