Product Description: In the horrific conflict of 1914–1918 known first as “The Great War” and later as World War I, Latin American nations were peripheral players. Only after the U.S. entered the fighting in 1917 did eight of the twenty republics declare war...read more

Product Description: “An important contribution to Colombian historical writing. Rausch’s works have helped orient and stimulate a school of historical writing in Colombia.”—James D. Henderson, author of Modernization in Colombia: The Laureano Gómez Years, 1889–1965 “With this fourth and final volume, Rausch completes her authoritative cycle of studies charting the history of Colombia’s Llanos Orientales...read more

Product Description: Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogotá, the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years—even though "El Portal de la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco...read more

Product Description: Within these pages students will meet Bartolome de Las Casas, the stout defender of the Indians in sixteenth-century Spanish America, and Antonio Vieira, his seventeenth-century counterpart in Brazil. They will critically examine Columbus's role in the Iberian conquest of America, and encounter Isabel Moctezuma, a "pioneer of mestizaje"; Juan Garrido, a black conquistador; Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru; Johan Maurits, the humanist Dutch governor of Recife; Sor Juana de la Cruz, "supreme poet" of the seventeenth-century Spanish world; Tupac Amaru, the leader of the last Inca rebellion in Peru; and the German savant and scientist Alexander von Humboldt...read more

Product Description: People and Issues in Latin American History presents a range of sources on and interpretations of important topics in the history of Latin America that enable students to debate the historical significance of individuals and issues...read more

Product Description: Among the few historical documents by or about early Native American history are pre-Columbian Mayan manuscripts and stone graphs, documents written by Indians and Mestizos from the Andes and Mesoamerica in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Newly translated and edited version of Friedrich Kuhlau im Spiegel seiner Flötenwerke promises to be a boon to flutists interested in early Romantic music. In addition to providing a biography of an extraordinary musician, Mehring offers an expert's analysis of all Kuhlau's flute pieces as well as giving advice how to play them in the manner envisioned by the composer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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'Fascinating and well-researched account of the efforts by the three Colombian presidents who ruled during the so-called 'Liberal Republic' (1930-46) to develop and incorporate the vast expanses of territory to the east of the Andes known commonly as theLlanos. Concludes that although some progress was made in the more accessible departments of Meta, Arauca, and Casanare, the reforms 'did not change the basic structure of the Llanos frontier or its relationship to the highlands as it had been developingover the previous three centuries' (p. 216). Instead, the advent of the Violencia largely halted efforts and reinforced status of eastern Colombia as a haven for people fleeing from conflict elsewhere. Essential reading for anyone wishing to better understand why the Llanos became the focus of the Colombian drug trade and the main stronghold of the country's largest guerrilla force'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)

Product Description: Special emphasis is given to social history and the analysis of the spectrum of revolutionary change since Bolivar. For the second edition the editor has expanded the section on Bolivar; revised and updated the section on economic affairs, and added new documents throughout the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures...read more

Product Description: A study of the colonial experience in Latin American history. Sections of the book cover: the transit of civilization; was Inca rule tyrannical?; relations between Indians and Spaniards; population questions; African slavery in Spanish America; the development of society; and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)