Nicaragua (Modern World Nations)
by Professor Charles F Gritzner
Conflict in Nicaragua
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Deep inside the little Amazon, the jungles of Honduras' "Mosquito Coast" - one of the largest, wildest, and most impenetrable stretches of tropical land in the world-lies the fabled city of Ciudad Blanca: the White City. For centuries, it has lured explorers, including Spanish conquistador Herman Cortes. Some intrepid souls got lost within its dense canopy; some disappeared. Others never made it out alive. Then, in 1939, an American explorer and spy named Theodore Morde claimed that he had locat...
Los Que Estamos Aqui (Monographs, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamer)
by John M. Watanabe
At the mention of Vienna, many visitors think of Sachertorte, romantic open carriage trips and an evening in one of the local wine taverns. But the old imperial city has much more to offer: this book presents a comprehensive, richly illustrated view of the art treasures to be found in the Danube metropolis. The main focus is on the baroque era with its magnificent church buildings and palaces including the Hofburg, Schonbrunn and Belvedere; the architectural highlights on the new Ringstrasse; an...
Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. Volume 2 of 2
by Basil Hall
This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to naturalization by analyzing a body of relevant juridical sources, dating from the end of the eighteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century, concerning the free people of color in late colonial and early independent Spanish America. Their precarious status makes this group a privileged subject to examine the negotiation and formation of racial identity as well as the definit...
Excavations at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala
by A.V. Kidder, J. D. Jennings, and E. M. Shook
Between 1936 and 1942, Kidder, Jennings, and Shook, three archaeologists associated with the Carnegie Institution, excavated two temple substructures within the site of Kaminaljuyu. Their efforts constitute the earliest major research on this site. The initial work at Kaminaljuyu led to the establishment of a long consecutive chronological sequence for an area within the Guatemala highlands. Through this research our understanding of the chronological interrelationships of the various Classic c...
Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala
The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborers to the president of the country. Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala explores the causes and consequences of governmental failure by focusing on life in two K'iche' Maya communities in the country's western highlands. The contributors to this volume, who lived among the villagers for some time, include both undergraduate students and distinguishe...
Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 (Working in the Americas)
by Frederick Douglass Opie
In the late nineteenth century, many Central American governments and countries sought to fill low-paying jobs and develop their economies by recruiting black American and West Indian labourers. Frederick Opie offers a revisionist interpretation of these workers, who were often depicted as simple victims with little, if any, enduring legacy. The Guatemalan government sought to build an extensive railroad system in the 1880s, and actively recruited foreign labour. For poor workers of Africa...
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies (Volume 1)
by Bryan Edwards