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HISTORY / Latin America / South America

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Most Scandalous Woman

Most Scandalous Woman

Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru

by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes

In charting the complex trajectory of Portal’s life and career, Most Scandalous Woman reveals what moves people to become revolutionaries, and the gendered limitations of their revolutionary alliances, in an engrossing narrative that brings to life Latin American revolutionary politics.

Epics of Empire and Frontier

Epics of Empire and Frontier

Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers

by Celia López-Chávez

An interdisciplinary, comparative postcolonial interpretation of the history found in two poetic narratives of conquest, Epics of Empire and Frontier brings fresh understanding to the role that poetry plays in regional and national memory and culture.

Guide to the Mammals of Salta Province, Argentina

Guide to the Mammals of Salta Province, Argentina

Guia de los Mamiferos de las Provincia de Salta, Argentina

by Michael A. Mares, Ricardo A. Ojeda and Rubén M. Barquez

The Guide includes information on the natural history, taxonomy, and behavior of all 114 species known to occur in the province, of which many species have been very poorly studied. A key to the families of mammals, depictions of the species, distribution maps, and cranial drawings assist in identification. General information on Salta and its habitats also is provided, as is a discussion of the methods of mammal research.

Inka Storage Systems

Inka Storage Systems

Edited by Terry Y. LeVine

Foreword by Craig Morris

Contributions by Coreen E. Chiswell, Terence N D'Altroy, Timothy K. Earle, Christine A Hastorf, Heidi A. Lennstrom, James E. Snead and John R. Topic

Inka storage systems financed the largest prehistoric New World empire, the Inka state, which extended almost three thousand miles along the west coast of South America and into the Andean highlands. In this volume, prominent anthropologists and archaeologists explore for the first time how Inka storage was integrated into the Inka administrative system, and how Inka authorities consolidated their power by controlling access to concentrated resources.

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

by Megan E. O'Neil

Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. With the help of more than 160 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market.

Pancho Villa’s Revolution by Headlines

Pancho Villa’s Revolution by Headlines

by Mark Cronlund Anderson

This colorful history of Pancho Villa as a propagandist tells how the legendary guerrilla waged war not only on the battlefield but also in the mass media, where he promoted his foreign policy...

Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers

Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers

Illusion of Power in Sixteenth-Century Peru

by Rafael Varon Gabai

Translated by Javier Flores Espinoza

In Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers, Rafael Varón Gabai breaks fresh ground in his reconstruction of the Pizarros’ conquest as a new form of business enterprise, built up by Francisco Pizarro...

The Explorers of South America

The Explorers of South America

by Edward J. Goodman

A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging...

The Incas of Pedro Cieza de Leon

The Incas of Pedro Cieza de Leon

by Pedro de Cieza de Leon

Translated by Harriett de Onis

Edited by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen

While previous English translations have been much abridged, and for many years unavailable, this translation of the Inca materials by Harriet de Onís is not only accurate but possesses a superb literary quality of its own. Victor W. von Hagen skillfully interjoined Cieza’s two chronicles to read as one, in order to bring “Cieza together with himself after four hundred years of excision.”

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