50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Latinamerika

1985 fue un año dramático para la historia de Colombia. En medio del debilitamiento del proceso de paz adelantado por el presidente Belisario Betancur con el M-19 y las Farc, los colombianos atravesaban una profunda crisis de valores producida por el creciente poder del narcotráfico. El 6 de noviembre un comando guerrillero del M-19 se tomó por asalto el Palacio de Justicia. Eran las 11:20 de la mañana, aproximadamente. De inmediato, como lo cuenta una de las n...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-31 85,00 kr

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in thei...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-04 189,00 kr

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you...

Releasedatum: 2000-04-28 89,00 kr

A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca’s government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television stations appropriated by APPO, shared at public demonstrations, debated in homes and in the streets, ...

Releasedatum: 2013-10-16 259,00 kr

The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins. Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity - thousands of men sent overseas for a tiny relic of empire - but the British victory over the Argentinians not ...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-22 Genre:Historia 75,00 kr

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. “Reads with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller...At once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing.” — The ...

Releasedatum: 2009-02-24 Genre:Historia 109,00 kr

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman , here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human underta...

Releasedatum: 2001-10-27 Genre:Historia 179,00 kr

Mexico, 19th June 1867. Dressed in black and carrying a crucifix, a tall blonde bearded man steps out of his carriage. As he turns to face the firing squad, his last words ring out under the cloudless sky: 'Long live Mexico, long live independence.' The execution of Ferdinand Maximilian is the climax of one of the most extraordinary stories in history. This young Austrian archduke was born into Europe's most illustrious royal family, second in line to the Habsburg throne. Why did he die as the E...

Releasedatum: 2022-01-18 Genre:Historia 129,00 kr

The incredible bestselling true story of the rise and reign of the most wanted criminal in history, told by the one man who was with him every step of the way - his brother Roberto. Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just a bloodthirsty g...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-15 Genre:Historia 49,00 kr

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade. In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James illuminates these epoch-making events...

Releasedatum: 2001-05-31 129,00 kr

Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . . In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral, German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman gambled the future of the conflict on a single telegram. But this message was intercepted and decoded in Whitehall's legendary Room 40 - and...

Releasedatum: 2014-06-05 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr

Una crónica sobre la vida política y social en Chile durante la dictadura militar y sus repercusiones vigentes. ¿Cuál fue el origen de la división política que llevó al golpe de Estado de 1973? ¿Cuándo y de qué manera se gestó el bombardeo a La Moneda? ¿Cuál fue la agenda oculta para refundar Chile durante la dictadura de Pinochet? ¿Cuáles fueron las operaciones del régimen militar y de la resistencia que marcaron los destinos del país? Con su distinguible estilo narrativo y el ...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-10 105,00 kr

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and br...

Releasedatum: 2018-01-30 Genre:Historia 139,00 kr

Der weltweite Ruhm Eduardo Galeanos gründet auf einem Buch, das er "in neunzig Nächten" geschrieben hat: das unorthodoxe Geschichtswerk "Die offenen Adern Lateinamerikas". Scharfsinnig, schonungslos und sprachlich brillant zeigt der Autor, dass es keinen Reichtum gibt, der unschuldig ist und formuliert das große Paradoxon seines Kontinents: "Wir Lateinamerikaner sind arm, weil der Boden, auf dem wir gehen, reich ist." "Der Autor bedauert, dass diese Seiten nicht an...

Releasedatum: 2009-09-01 199,00 kr

Un estudio acucioso, desapasionado e imprescindible sobre uno de los períodos más controvertidos de Chile A diez años de la muerte del dictador, reeditamos el más completo y actualizado estudio sobre la naturaleza del régimen de Pinochet (1973-1990), a través del análisis de sus estructuras y grupos de poder, sus principales políticas y aquellos factores que posibilitaron sus diecisiete años de permanencia. El régimen de Pinochet aborda, desde la perspectiva de la ciencia política, el...

Releasedatum: 2016-12-01 85,00 kr

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (1645–1707) was a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. Born about 1645, it is likely that Exquemelin was a native of Harfleur, France, who on his return from buccaneering settled in Holland, possibly because he was a Huguenot. In 1666 he was engaged by the French West India Company an...

Releasedatum: 2016-05-16 15,00 kr

O maior fenômeno de vendas do mercado editorial brasileiro na categoria não-ficção é agora relançado em versão atualizada e ampliada pela Globo Livros. 1808, de Laurentino Gomes, já vendeu mais de 1 milhão de exemplares, e nessa nova edição traz um capítulo inédito com informações até hoje pouco conhecidas a respeito da criação do Reino Unido de Brasil, Portugal e Algarves, que completa duzentos anos em 2015. Saiba como nasceu o Brasil de hoje.

Releasedatum: 2014-08-26 99,00 kr

Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential, but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significan...

Releasedatum: 2014-06-10 159,00 kr

An excellent introduction to the history of Mexico and the native people that lived there prior to the arrival of the Europeans. Enock's history covers the early history of Mexico as well as the conquest of the Europeans up to the 19th century. Illustrated to enhance the reading experience.

Releasedatum: 2014-04-06 9,00 kr

This is the definitive, illustrated guide to Chocolate. Beginning 3,000 years ago in the Mexican jungles, it goes on to investigate archaeology, history, botany and socio-economics, and follows the story from the Aztecs up to todays mass-produced chocolate and its luxury versions. A treat, not just for chocoholics but for anyone who enjoys lively, thorough historical research. Sophie D. Coe, anthropologist and food historian, was also the author of 'Americas First Cuisines'.

Releasedatum: 2013-09-02 Genre:Historia 119,00 kr

Considerada uma das obras-primas da literatura brasileira, «Os Sertões» descreve as batalhas entre os homens liderados por Antônio Conselheiro e o exército brasileiro. Com seu apurado estilo jornalístico-épico, Euclides da Cunha traça um retrato dos elementos que compõem a guerra de Canudos (a Terra, o Homem e a Guerra) e faz uma profunda análise sobre a vida do sertanejo, desvendando um Brasil até então obscuro.

Releasedatum: 2013-04-13 15,00 kr

From award-winning historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba: A History is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world. Hugh Thomas's acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. Throughout this period of over two hundred years, Hugh Thomas analyses the poli...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-14 189,00 kr

Por mais voltas que se dê, é impossível contar a história do Brasil sem falar de Portugal. A vida dos dois países sempre se cruzou mais do que se podia supor. Um enfoque novo e original. É h**a de atirar tomates à historiografia politicamente correta. Este guia reúne histórias que chocam diretamente com ela. Neste livro mencionamos os erros das vítimas e dos heróis da bondade, bem como as virtudes daqueles que são considerados vilões.

Releasedatum: 2011-11-02 85,00 kr

Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from on...

Releasedatum: 2013-04-16 179,00 kr

Os Sertões é um livro escrito por Euclides da Cunha e publicado em 1902. Trata da Guerra de Canudos (1896-1897), no interior da Bahia. Euclides da Cunha tinha presenciado uma parte desta guerra como correspondente do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo, e ao retornar escreveu um dos maiores livros já escritos por um brasileiro. Pertence, ao mesmo tempo, à prosa científica e à prosa artística. Pode ser entendido como um obra de Sociologia, Geografia, História ou crítica humana. Mas não é errad...

Releasedatum: 2012-01-06 29,00 kr

How did 500 Spaniards, led by Hernan Cortes, manage to travel thousands of miles to an unknown land, and then conquer the most powerful empire of the Americas? How were these foreigners able to defeat an army of hundreds of thousands of warriors who were defending their home and way of life? Cortes studied law, came to the New World in search of fortune, became a womanizer, and was selected to lead the third Spanish expedition into Mexico. At this same time, Emperor Moctezuma II had become the m...

Releasedatum: 2011-07-05 15,00 kr

On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'. At first he didn't believe it. In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Isles. The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision delibera...

Releasedatum: 2009-11-10 Genre:Historia 159,00 kr

Por carecer de un programa de acción definido, el factor bélico-militar unificó a la Junta Militar de Gobierno y la profundización de la guerra contrasubversiva dotó de sentido histórico al golpe de Estado de las FF. AA. y policiales. Ese factor propició que al interior de estas se produjera una elaboración en torno a la necesidad de afrontar de manera más eficaz la "guerra contra la subversión" en los meses de octubre y noviembre de 1973. Ese viraje represivo, más que una rup...

Releasedatum: 2022-03-01 105,00 kr

México es una nación con un pasado escénico extenso y diverso, sometido a los avatares de factores políticos y sociales y, sobre todo, a mutaciones en los estilos y en las dinámicas de la vida artística. En tanto actividad creativa que involucra la participación de artistas de diversa índole, en esta obra se siguen las huellas del teatro a través de tres dimensiones: la historia de los actores, de las compañías teatrales y de la actuación; la de los dramaturgos, los directores y sus ...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-15 35,00 kr

UM OLHAR SOBRE A EXPEDIÇÃO DE CABRAL. Lançada originalmente no final dos anos 1990,   A viagem do descobrimento   é o primeiro volume da coleção Brasilis, que já vendeu mais de 1 milhão de exemplares, inaugurando um estilo leve, crítico e divertido de contar a história de nosso país. "Ele conta história do jeito que deveria ser nas escolas: sem aquele monte de datas para decorar." —  DRAUZIO VARELLA,  médico e escritor. Embarque nas naus e caravelas da vas...

Releasedatum: 2016-04-20 Genre:Historia 65,00 kr

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” ( The Wall Street Journal ) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had take...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-07 149,00 kr

Un puñado de los hombres y mujeres más influyentes en las últimas décadas de la Historia de Chile. Jorge Baradit construye los perfiles de las personalidades que la historia chilena ha marginado de monumentos y del reconocimiento oficial por su rebeldía y su espíritu contracorriente. Aquí aparecen Mariano Puga, Clotario Blest, Cecilia Magni, las mujeres que lucharon contra la dictadura, los pobladores de La Victoria y Salvador Allende, como héroes sin homenajes pero que confirman, con su...

Releasedatum: 2020-09-01 Genre:Historia 99,00 kr

Uncover the history of Chile, the South American country with a rich and tumultuous history. From the Atacama desert, the driest desert in the world, to the Andes mountain range, Chile is a country with incredible geography and an even more fascinating history. This book uncovers their history, from their origins before colonization to the influence of Spain and the rest of Europe. Containing the history of the Mapuche people, along with the fight for independence and a slew of rebellions, Chile...

Releasedatum: 2020-05-24 29,00 kr

A military logistics expert analyzes the detailed coordination employed by the British during the Falklands War in 1982. While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge: the lack of preparation time, the urgency, the huge distances involved, and the need to requisition ships from trade to name but four. After a brief discussion of events leading to Argentina’s invasion, the book details the rush to r...

Releasedatum: 2016-08-15 Genre:Historia 85,00 kr

The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.   “A journey, a number of journeys. Er...

Releasedatum: 2015-03-31 95,00 kr

Una denuncia ignorada durante más de cincuenta años. Un antecedente directo de Las venas abiertas de América Latina . En 1967, un jovencísimo Eduardo Galeano emprendió un viaje que marcaría su carrera como periodista y su sensibilidad política para siempre: pasó varios meses en Guatemala con el objetivo de entrevistar a los líderes de los dos grupos guerrilleros –las FAR y el MR 13– que desafiaban a la elite político-militar en el poder desde 1954, cuando el derrocamiento del presi...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-16 105,00 kr

En la historia de América Latina hay un lugar común compartido por todos los análisis, con independencia de la ideología desde la que operan, y es que la responsabilidad del subdesarrollo del continente proviene de la época colonial y su protagonista, el malvado Imperio español. Pero en historia y geopolítica no hay ni imperios malvados ni benevolentes, solo imperios que ejercen el imperialismo. Este interesado relato, más que historia, es un mito inventado por las oligarquías para perp...

Releasedatum: 2020-01-13 119,00 kr

This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War.In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were landed by Sea King Helicopter on the Island. Their task was to destroy the 11 enemy aircraft located at the Airstrip on the Island and neutralize the Argentinean force posted there to guard it.The raid was successful and all the Aircraft were destroyed but debate still goes on as to whether the raid was a political gesture to give the British Public some action or whet...

Releasedatum: 2017-02-28 65,00 kr

*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize* 'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic 'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's most popular drug. The very word 'coffee' is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's 400-year transformation into an ev...

Releasedatum: 2020-04-07 115,00 kr

O livro definitivo sobre a história da Amazônia do período pré-colombiano aos dias atuais, por um dos autores que melhor interpretou a região.  A Amazônia, que desde sempre atraiu viajantes e exploradores como um local desconhecido e misterioso, ocupa um lugar privilegiado na obra de Márcio Souza. Unindo suas perspectivas de sociólogo, historiador e crítico literário, ele se dedicou à tarefa de registrar esta História da Amazônia , abrangendo a totalidade de um território geog...

Releasedatum: 2019-07-08 89,00 kr

Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence. Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture and identity, far more so than any other western European nation. For well over a thousand years, the country has only ever been forged and then been held together through the use of aggression - brutal, merciless terror and warfare directed agai...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-03 Genre:Historia 35,00 kr

La ejecución del corregidor Antonio de Arriaga al sur del Cuzco el 10 de noviembre de 1780 inició la más grande sublevación del continente americano. Durante los siguientes seis meses, Tupac Amaru, su esposa Micaela Bastidas, sus familiares y seguidores pondrían en vilo al Imperio español y abrirían una brecha que otros continuarían acentuando por más de dos años. Lo que parecía ser otro levantamiento local terminó convirtiéndose en una guerra de exterminio, con un saldo de aproxima...

Releasedatum: 2019-02-20 69,00 kr

In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a British Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless tempo of events defies belief. Raging seas, inhospitable glaciers, hurricane-force winds, helicopter crashes, raids behind enemy lines--the Squadron prevailed against them all, but the cost was high. Eight died and more were wounded or capt...

Releasedatum: 2019-01-01 Genre:Historia 259,00 kr

La república que alcanzó importantes escalas de desarrollo material y logros evidentes de crecimiento democrático hoy pasa por situaciones de declive que han provocado la atención del mundo. ¿Cómo llegó Venezuela a tales evidencias de postración? ¿Por qué se derrumbó su obra? La lectura de este libro ofrece claves de interés, después de recoger lo sustancial de los acontecimientos que han movido a la sociedad venezolana desde sus orígenes. Se detiene sólo en los fenómenos crucial...

Releasedatum: 2018-08-27 55,00 kr

Con un enfoque novedoso, Enrique Semo analiza la sucesión de sistemas económicos en los orígenes de lo que hoy es México. La comunidad igualitaria de cazadores y recolectoras, las tribus de cazadores y horticultores, las comunidades de agricultores sedentarios y las sociedades tributarias que dominaban a Mesoamérica a la llegada de los españoles.

Releasedatum: 2018-11-14 45,00 kr

'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Its native people both revolutionized Europe's ideas of itself and were then subject to extermination. For white settlers Brazil's opportunit...

Releasedatum: 2018-07-26 149,00 kr

El aporte teórico de este libro es mostrar a través de la práctica analítica que el estudio de la conciencia de clase requiere tomar como objeto histórico la cultura. Hay en la obra un postulado casi implícito: es importante pero no suficiente situar una clase con relación a la estructura económica. Por supuesto, se requiere conocer el condicionamiento material, el tipo de relaciones sociales de producción de la cual una clase determinada es agente; y por ello en este libro es central l...

Releasedatum: 2017-10-04 45,00 kr

In The Senses of Democracy , Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis: when the discourse on democracy is altered—when nations fall into crisis or the increased weight of modernity tests minds and nerves—the representation of our sensing bodies plays a crucial role ...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-02 Genre:Historia 259,00 kr

Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors to American. The Rolling Stones played in Havana. President Obama arrived too in March. He was the first President to visit the nation almost 100 years—since Coolidge in 1928. And then Fidel Castro p...

Releasedatum: 2017-10-31 5,00 kr

Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest consciousness-raising event in history." The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and US feminist Betty Friedan, as well as a motley array of policymakers, activists, and journa...

Releasedatum: 2017-06-01 Genre:Historia 389,00 kr