Spanish South America

Delving into the vibrant history and beautiful culture of the South American continent, inside this guide you’ll be taken on a journey into the past, uncovering a richly woven story that has played out through the ages. From the time of the great Inca Empire to the foundation of the modern-day countries we know so well, this book unveils the secrets of South America like never before.

We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.

If you want to enrich your travels with the most popular and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary close at hand, then pay attention. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, and you are probably planning on visiting one of these. Whether you are traveling for work, studies or just holidays, in this audiobook, you will find 2,500 words and sentences that will help you speak fluently with locals and other travelers.

Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters, street puppeteers, and best-selling authors, this book maps vivid and often surprising combinations of the new and the old, the high and the low, and the political and the cultural.

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¿Qué es América Latina? ¿Cómo se define? América Latina comprende el Caribe, Sudamérica y México. Estas regiones son diversas en cuanto a cultura, pero comparten un vínculo común de historia que se forjó cuando el Viejo Mundo de Europa Latina se encontró con el Nuevo Mundo de las Américas. Este libro lo lleva a través de la historia de esta vasta y compleja región.

Change the quality of your travels to Spain and South America with this amazing phrasebook. As an educator for more than 20 years, I'm a fan of teaching others. And there is no greater challenge than to learn a language and to use that tool when traveling abroad! I created this Spanish phrasebook as a way to increase your enjoyment when traveling to such amazing places as Spain, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru.

This audio guide offers an introduction to the dialect of Spanish spoken in Panama. It includes an overview of the language and culture and lots of words and phrases that can be put to daily use. Topics covered include slang, money, transportation, cuisine, history, and other topics, as well as all the core vocabulary that you would expect from a language course. Learning is split across 10 sessions, including learning new vocabulary, pronunciation tips and tricks, cultural sections, and review of content already covered to help make it stick and build fluency.

Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle" - in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands - demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority.

This audiobook tells the story of how Spain managed to conquer the Americas in the span of half a century, from the late 1400s to the mid-1500s. Although exploitation and warfare continued between the colonizers and the colonized after this period, the largest campaigns against the indigenous peoples were undertaken in this short time span, which is the focus of this audiobook.

If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this book for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.

If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, Earworms mbt© Rapid Spanish is the course for you. Volume 1 was your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad. Volume 2 will have you talking about yourself, past, present and future, chatting, and even flirting!

If you are interested in learning Spanish quickly and easily, then you need to listen to this book! The problem with most phrase books is that they are teaching the wrong phrases or at least uncommon phrases. This book is full of the most common phrases you will use while speaking Spanish. Designed as a quick reference and an easy-to-use study guide, this inexpensive and up-to-date book offers fast, effective communications. The perfect companion for tourists and business travelers in Spain and Latin America, it features words, phrases, and sentences that cover daily use phrases.

Quince mil años antes de que los Europeos pisarán las Américas, la gente ya se había propagado de punta a punta y de costa a costa. Como todos los humanos, estos Nativos Americanos buscaban comprender su lugar en el universo, la naturaleza de su relación con lo divino, y el origen del mundo en el que habían emergido sus antepasados.Las respuestas se encuentran en sus historias sagradas.

Dive into the amazing story of Jamaica, a country shaped by the trials of slavery and the incredible strength of its people. This audiobook tells how enslaved Africans, despite enduring terrible hardships, built the foundation of Jamaica’s vibrant culture and heritage.

Esta nueva edición del diario del Che Guevara del último año de su vida describe los esfuerzos que hace el Che para lanzar una rebelión guerrillera en contra del gobierno militar de Bolivia. Fue encontrado en su mochila cuando el ejercito boliviano lo capturo en octubre de 1967. Nuevamente revisado, ahora incluye "Una introducción necesaria" de Fidel Castro, revelando las mentiras de una edición anterior, preventiva preparada por la C.I.A. para descreditar al Che y la expedición boliviana, así como también la Revolución Cubana en si.

La historia, costumbres, economía, cultura, política y mucho más de este maravilloso país sudamericano, famoso por la calidez de sus hombres, la extraordinaria belleza de sus mujeres, y la lucha constante e indesmayable por vencer muchos de los flagelos sociales que hoy la azotan.

Did you know that as of 2018, Argentina has a literacy level of 99 percent? Are you curious to find out how it achieved this? Argentina has a long and complex history. For hundreds of years, Argentina was inhabited by hunter-gatherer groups. In time, the Inca Empire rose to prominence and took over the Argentinian communities one by one. The Spanish arrived about 20 years later, bringing a new wave of invasion to the native inhabitants. The people of Argentina wouldn’t declare their independence until 1816, and after that, they faced civil war after civil war.

Se cumplen cuatro décadas de la peor tragedia con origen natural del siglo XX, no solo en Colombia sino en el mundo entero, y este audiolibro periodístico es un homenaje a las víctimas, un impresionante ejercicio de reconstrucción y memoria, y una impactante revelación.

Ante la dimisión del gobernador Francisco García, el realista Mateo de Toro y Zambrano tomó interinamente el mando. Su gobierno, que llegó en el clímax de las ideas de libertad producto de la Ilustración, tuvo que enfrentar a la dura divergencia política que se vivía en la metrópoli, Presionado, Toro y Zambrano hubo de acceder en septiembre de 1810 a convocar un cabildo abierto para decidir sobre el futuro político del país. Nadie imaginaba que ese sería el comienzo de la independencia del país.