In addition to his work for Caretas, Gustavo Gorriti has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times. Currently, he is deputy editor of Panama”s La Prensa. Robin Kirk is author of The Monkey”s Paw: New Chronicles from Peru and coeditor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics.
17 Електронні книги від Robin Kirk
Robin Kirk: Righting Wrongs
Many young people aren’t aware that determined individuals created the rights we now take for granted. The idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post-World War II effort to draw …
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Robin Kirk: Righting Wrongs
Many young people aren’t aware that determined individuals created the rights we now take for granted. The idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post-World War II effort to draw …
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€15.39
Gustavo Gorriti: The Shining Path
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing …
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Gustavo Gorriti: Shining Path
First published in Peru in 1990, The Shining Path was immediately hailed as one of the finest works on the insurgency that plagued that nation for over fifteen years. A richly detailed and absorbing …
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€38.27
Ivan Molina & Steven Palmer: Costa Rica Reader
Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a b …
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€38.53
Graciela Montaldo & Gabriela Nouzeilles: Argentina Reader
Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina-in all its complexity-has often been obscured by variations …
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€39.74
Barry Carr & Aviva Chomsky: Cuba Reader
Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white terms-either as the site of one of Latin America’s most successful revolutions or as the bastion of the world’s last communist regime. The Cuba Read …
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€43.68
Carlos Ivan Degregori & Robin Kirk: Peru Reader
Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant A …
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€39.65
Steve Striffler & Carlos de la Torre: Ecuador Reader
Encompassing Amazonian rainforests, Andean peaks, coastal lowlands, and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador’s geography is notably diverse. So too are its history, culture, and politics, all of which are …
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€39.32
Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams: Alaska Native Reader
Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska’s first peoples are often ignored, while the stories of Russian fur hunters …
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€39.45
Tineke Hellwig & Eric Tagliacozzo: Indonesia Reader
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indone …
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Adele Marie Barker & Bruce Grant: Russia Reader
Letters recording the reactions of ordinary Russians to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, an account of the day-to-day scramble to make a living after the end of the Soviet Union, and excerp …
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€43.80
Jan Bazant & Nina Bazantova: Czech Reader
The Czech Reader brings together more than 150 primary texts and illustrations to convey the dramatic history of the Czechs, from the emergence of the Czech state in the tenth century, through the cr …
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€39.25
John Clifford Holt: Sri Lanka Reader
The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island’s recorded history of more than two and a half millenni …
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