Latino History

En estas páginas, la exploración de la música latinoamericana conduce hacia la historia más amplia de la conceptualización de la región. Tal como sostiene Palomino: "La música proporciona así un modelo para comprender ahora los mecanismos nacionales y transnacionales que siguen produciendo el lugar de América Latina en el marco de la cultura global conflictiva y fascinante que habitamos".

One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. The Little School is Alicia Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment in Argentina in the 1970s.

For this striking, stripped-down account of youth immigration, Villalobos interviewed teens at various stages of the immigration process to illustrate their stories - the physical and emotional difficulties of their travels. He then changed certain elements of these stories in order to protect the children's identities. Each chapter brings forth the voice of one young immigrant's experience, from crossing the Mexican desert to gang violence to the freezers at ICE detention centers.

A Mexican-American podcaster and pawnshop owner goes back in time to try to stop the European invasion of the New World. This isn't some cutesy time-traveling story with skateboards and DeLoreans, but this story is what you might do if you knew it could be done. He's going locked and loaded!

Neste texto selecionado do livro "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", o historiador Moreira de Azevedo retrata a vitória brasileira na batalha de Monte Caseros, destacando a abertura da navegação no rio da Prata e os ajustes fronteiriços entre o Brasil e os Estados do Prata.

Em "Batendo orelha", Simões Lopes Neto mergulha em uma prosa poética e simbólica, onde as vidas de um boi e de um homem se entrelaçam de maneira profunda e sensível. O conto explora a interação entre esses dois seres, um animal do campo e um homem simples, revelando as conexões invisíveis que unem suas existências. Através da delicadeza das palavras, Neto evoca a realidade rural e a essência da vida gaúcha, colocando o leitor em contato com o coração da tradição do Rio Grande do Sul.

Neste trecho selecionado de "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", Moreira de Azevedo apresenta um relato marcante da Batalha do Riachuelo, um dos episódios mais decisivos e simbólicos da Guerra do Paraguai. Ocorrido em junho de 1865, às margens do arroio Riachuelo, afluente do rio Paraná, o confronto naval consagrou a supremacia brasileira nas águas do conflito e alterou o rumo da guerra.

"Já passou o tempo em que ninguém se atrevia a entrar em um hospital de doidos, receoso de penetrar em enxovias, em gaiolas de ferro, onde eram encarcerados os míseros, como se fossem feras." Nestes trechos, Moreira de Azevedo revela os bastidores da fundação do Hospício de Pedro II, primeiro centro especializado em saúde mental do Brasil, inaugurando uma nova era no tratamento da loucura.

Nestes trechos selecionados de Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros, o historiador Moreira de Azevedo retrata a Batalha de Tuiuti, considerada o confronto mais sangrento da Guerra do Paraguai. Realizada em terreno hostil e pantanoso no sudoeste do país, a batalha reuniu mais de 55 mil combatentes e marcou profundamente o curso da guerra.

American Imperialism is a short work in which Schurz denounced the Spanish-American war and the United States’ acquisition of the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. He considered the war as a battle of conquest which violated the intent and principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Schurz believed that imperialism should remain the province of despotic European governments. Together with the other leaders of the American Anti-Imperialist League, such as Andrew Carnegie and Mark Twain, Schurz insisted that imperialism was incompatible with democracy.

Oscar Wilde was always willing to express his opinions on a wide variety of subjects, including his own writings. The following selection of letters was prepared and edited by his executor Robert Ross, who is best known for expurgating and publishing Wilde's last major work, De Profundis.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's nonfiction book A Visit to Three Fronts. Written in 1916 during the peak of the First World War this book follows Mr Doyle as he visits first the British, Italian, and finally the French sectors of the front. He meets with everyone from the highest national generals to the lowliest of frontline troopers. Although a work that can be classified as mid-war propaganda, it does offer some very interesting insights into the British mind-set at this time of the war.

Six Gaelic tales of wonder and adventure, read in an authentic brogue by actor Des Keogh, transport wee listeners to a magic world of leprechauns and giants.

Listen to The People & the Water today.

Origen, duración, extensión y población del Imperio Inca. Economía y estructura social. Logros de la ingeniería y de la ciencia inca. Machu Picchu. Final del Imperio Inca. Nuestra civilización actual es el fruto de un largo proceso de aprendizaje de miles de años. Descubrimiento del fuego. La agricultura: la rueda.La invención de la escritura. Historia:egipcios, fenicios, romanos, Edad Media... La Era Moderna.

This book will take you on a journey through the past, discovering the secrets of the Maya that have been lost to time. Explore the culture and traditions that have shaped the history of the Maya.

En este libro comprenderá cómo Cristóbal Colón propuso algo nuevo: alcanzar las riquezas de las Indias Orientales navegando desde Europa hacia el oeste. Los gobernantes de España accedieron a apoyar su arriesgada empresa y Cristóbal Colón zarpó en 1492. Inesperadamente se topó con dos continentes que nadie conocía en Europa. Sin embargo, no descubrió los continentes; eso ya se había hecho siglos antes.

¡La colección de no ficción preferida por las familias! Únete a nuestros intrépidos exploradores Otto y Cassandra y Missy, el ave más astuta del universo, y embárcate en una nueva aventura.

¡La colección de no ficción preferida por las familias! Únete a nuestros intrépidos exploradores Otto y Cassandra y Missy, el ave más astuta del universo, y embárcate en una nueva aventura. En esta ocasión, Cassandra, una niña de otro planeta, y Missy, la criatura más inteligente del universo, consiguen revertir el tiempo y llegar a la Antigua Roma. Allí conocerán cómo se fundó Roma, el funcionamiento de las instituciones, las costumbres de la época y por qué sus mitos y cultura han llegado hasta nuestros días.

In 1550-51, Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, in the Valladolid Debate, attempted to settle the issue of whether or not Native Americans should have been enslaved, given sanction by the Pope. Both carefully argued their sides, las Casas stating emphatically, through his "Apología", that Native Americans were not all uncivilized and that only Canaanite tribes could be enslaved.