According to McPherson, Spenser has gathered a remarkable international ensemble of scholars who collectively ask what the East-West Cold War meant in Latin America
Reyes appreciation of nature and the wonders of the New World helps to understand the beauty of new frontier opened to humanity upon the discovery of the Americas. Also see author's "Alfonso Reyes, Critic and Artist," Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington, 1973.
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475 p, "This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the grounds, yards and stadiums used for organized baseball from the invention of the sport in the 1840s to the present. Each entry gives the location of the park, who played there and when, home run dimensions, seating capacity, architectural comments, attendance records, and anecdotes." (Google)
Evaluates the economic and social impact of the large migrations which took place in Central America during the 1980s, especially from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, to Costa Rica, Mexico, and Belize
A research project covering the Mexico-Belize border underpins an exploration of nodal elements of the theocratic identity of Jehovah's Witnesses. Conception & form of behavior are documented in religion, society, & family, generating an image of a scenario where many of the social relations in the religious group are reproduced
"Henri de Saussure, représentant d'une illustre famille de scientifiques suisses, voyage au Mexique entre 1854 et 1856 : l'A. s'intéresse moins à l'ample moisson de spécimens de toute nature qu'il réalise qu'à la manière dont il vit son aventure au jour le jour, révélant ses préjugés de classe et d'occidental face au monde latino-américain des Antilles ou du Mexique, qu'il parcourt tambour battant sur les traces du baron de Humboldt." (Refdoc.fr)
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221 p, Uses documents in the area to trace the history of the black population in Central America. Identifies four different black cultures, each serving as a control to a stage of historical development of the isthmus. The Maroons of Panama, fugitive slaves of the Spanish colony; Blacks in Nicaragua and Belize, accompanying English pirates in the seventeenth century; Caribbean blacks deported from their native island to Honduras during European settlement in the Lesser Antilles; and Jamaican blacks attracted by job prospects offered by big yards and banana plantations in Panama and Costa Rica at the turn of the century.
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401 p, The distinct but extraordinary diverse ethnic and cultural identities of Afro-Latin Americans have received little official recognition. But today a growing movement is voicing pride in the Afro-Latin American heritage, asserting common identities and working to defend and advance collective rights. This book provides a major human-rights-focused survey that aims to reflect and be part of that process of rediscovery and renewal. Each chapter considers a particular country or subregion.
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Compact disc.; 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
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Recorded 1949-1987. Program notes by Kenneth Bilby and James McKee, bibliography, and discography (19 p.) included., Includes: Garifuna: Belize -- Indians of the Chocó: Panama/Columbia -- Shipibo: Peru -- Asháninka: Peru -- Aluku: French Guiana -- Wayana: Suriname -- Maroons: Jamaica.; Recorded 1949-1987.; Music from the rainforests of South America & the Caribbean
Describes tourism on the island of Ambergris Caye, based on site investigations, questionnaires, and interviews, and focuses on relationships between tourist consumption and the sociocultural, economic and physical fabric of the destination
